Update Allegra - Google Update 2-2-2005

[illusionist]

My site which came back on december 26 update, seems to have disappeared again on this data center [216.239.53.99...] . Its notwhere to be found even in allinanchor, allintitle etc? I see majot change on that data center, is this a new update?

[valeyard]

Welcome to LSI hell, folks.

Oh no, not a repeat of the Austin fiasco.

It is about that time again.

[bobx]

hey guys,

one site I work on that was affected disastrously in the December fiasco, now has most results gone from page 15-30 , to page 1 - 5. traffic has gone up 2x or more.

then, here the weirdest one, I got a site, running already 5 years+ , and it used to get like 5k uniques / day from google. Now, I was trying to get on page 1 , for the term "top models", and I was always in page2-3 , and then, voilla, december fiasco came along, and then the page was nowhere to be seen for that query.
However, the site itself as a whole actually INCREASED in traffic about 25%!. So, more obscure term search URLs were somehow visible in december, and the heavy competition query terms had vanished. At least regarding my site.

Now, since January 15, traffic has gradually tapered down, and now it sits at 1k / day. So, 1/5 or 1/6 of its Mid-december output.

However Incredibly, now I am on page 1 results for the term "top models".

does this mean they are now making PEAKS out of all sites, to get better domain distribution across searches? or?

[Spine]

Huh, my site is the same on some terms, up on others, and down on some, fairly normal that way.

But, the sites surrounding me are 1/2 crap now, when I thought the results since December were fairly clean looking.

[Imaster]

Every site I operate is doing better across the board. Two sites are suddenly out of the sandbox and traffic is going haywire in a good way. This one's got my vote.

Thats interesting, Atomic. I have 2 sites sandboxed since May and they are still where they were - sandboxed :(

Anyone else noticed their sites getting out of sandbox today.

[robster124]

Update what? Where did that come from?!

[twebdonny]

I cannot stress enough how Important it is to WRITE G
and let them know your displeasure with this update. The one thing that has always impressed me with G is that they seem to actually read user feedback as opposed to Y which just sends form letters out that do not apply to the situation addressed in any way.

Write them, Write them NOW>

They are listening, DO NOT let the NAYsayers in this forum
dissuade you from writing. It makes a difference!

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[walkman]

question:
is your site GONE (as in not in the index at all) or gone from the top rankings (e.g. it was in the top ten and now is on page 22)?

[Anolonda]

Forget writing. Boycott.

People forget that Google is publicly owned now. MSN and Yahoo have a lot of press right now, lets organize and take advantage of it.

Take action and start spreading word of mouth. Call your clients (those of you who have them) and tell them Google is taking money out of their pockets. Tell them that Yahoo or MSN are the better search engine for their sites to be found (which, as far as I can tell, they are right now).

But most importantly, link to MSN or Yahoo search page on your own sites. Saturate the online community with links to the competition. When shareholders see smoke, they start worrying about fire. Hit Google where they are hitting us, in the wallet.

[twebdonny]

Our site now shows up on the 2nd page of results when searching for the domain name and no longer shows the "more results from" tag and entries.

[edited by: twebdonny at 9:08 pm (utc) on Feb. 3, 2005]

[twebdonny]

Boycotting although it makes you feel better
will not result in any immediate change to this current
filter/algo that has been implimented. Thousands of
letters, that G does read may have a faster more positive
effect.

I say write them NOW and in numbers they will notice.

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