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?

[Brett_Tabke]

Must be on a different datacenter valeyard, as page two is almost more relevant than page 1.

[lammert]

The problem valeyard mentions occurs on 64.233.183.104. Although I have been very positive about Google in the last days, I must admit, if these are the future's SERPs I will find another search engine.

[Nikke]

I'm looking at results even worse than the ones mentioned by valeyard right now. From where I'm at the comment spamming begins at # 5 and wow! Those are pretty horrible examples of what comment spamming can do.

Downright depressing.

And this, was the first proof I've seen of how this update has gone wrong. I've mainly been watching my own keywords, and I can assure you there is nothing this bad going on for those.

I now tried some moneywords in Swedish, and couldn't see anyting like it anywhere, which I find strange.

[Nikke]

What is more interesting is that those blog spammers are not showing in the results.

Absolutely! Even though it's horrible that they should show up at all, maybe the fact that their sites aren't ranking will put them off a bit.

[europeforvisitors]

Is there anyone here that is linked to hundreds of sites that are not linking back, and have not been affected by Allegra?

I've been affected, but only positively. (Google referrals are up by nearly a third.)

My several thousand outbound links are presented in an editorial context with annotations that I've written myself.

IMHO, Google would never be foolish enough to use large numbers of outbound links as de facto evidence of a "scraper site" or boilerplate directory. Other factors would also come into play.

[Macro]

IMHO, Google would never be foolish enough to use large numbers of outbound links as de facto evidence of a "scraper site"

There's a lot they can do in the name of testing/algo tweaking.

[Jalinder]

Anyone can summarize what we have analyzed? :)

[fjpapaleo]

Goog just took away one of the few crumbs it was giving me for my sandboxed site. After being number one for a non-competetive term ( under 5,000 results)since my site went up, I've dropped to ninth. The number one result is now a re-direct to Ebay. The page itself doesn't even exist. And who says you can't out-smart 200 Phd's? :)

[steveb]

It's not a bug, its an update that isn't done.

If when it settles nothing much changes, then they couldn't accomplish what they were trying, which obviously involves the sandbox, but until it settles there are just things to observe. Drawing conclusions is nuts. It's like drawing conclusions about a car when it is halfway through the assembly line: "hey that car is broken!"

[Elixir]

None of our sites ranking well already have been affected and three sandboxed sites have entered the top 10 for most of their keywords. Pure white hate seo, no tricks or gimmicks just the hard work version. Not getting too excited anything could happen the update is so radical.