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?

[caveman]

Changes are of quite varying magnitudes in the 20+ categories we watch closely. Our sites look pretty stable so far, but lots of activity swirling around us.

I wonder if those seeing "massive changes" have any commonality?

<early guess>

Looks to me as though authority sites are playing a bigger role, insofar as they have popped up a bit here and there, and are also helping the sites that they link to. May be true of hub sites as well.

A related guess is that those nofollow tags could conceiveably already be playing a role here, such that the balance has shifted away from sites that benefitted greatly by weak and/or dubious inbounds. (However, not sure that those tags could have an effect so fast.)

</early guess>

[sonny]

my backlinks went up by exactly one on 3 out of 4 of my sites on 216.239.53.99.

[Marval]

seeing minor movement for root index pages, but nothing for inner pages

the difference in SERP result numbers seems to indicate the start of a minor update - no massive changes in results as before a real update, but then Ive seen them playing with a few indexes the last few days that did show massive number changes but they would only last an hour or so.

[onebaldguy]

It seems to be mainly the sites that were affected in the mid-December algo change that are seeing changes on these datacenters.

This seems to be what we are seeing to. We are seeing the results live as of now.

[caveman]

Yes the results are spreading out quickly for the moment.

It's not just a reversal of Dec pain for sites that got hit in Dec.: Some that got hit in Dec. are still gone, while others that were healthy up to and thru Dec. are now abruptly vanished with this new set of results.

[Chico_Loco]

..are now abruptly vanished with this new set of results

Would seem my site, which has been an authority up until now, has been removed completely. Very odd - unique content and completely whitehat. No server downtime over the past month so I can see no reason why this might be, robots.txt is fine, and Googlebot is crawling the site at this very moment.

Perfect timing for me to hop on the MSN bandwagon.

[twebdonny]

As has ours, in the index for years, loyal customers...

Gone...

Googleguy where r u now?

[graywolf]

I am seeing lots of movement where I play, and lots of fake review sites jumping up to the top. This one's just plain ugly.

[Chico_Loco]

Googleguy where r u now

Now that all of us webmasters have helped so much in making them a public company by giving them our content to use, they've got no time for us anymore?

Or at least it feels that way.

[walkman]

seems like they're alternating taking sites off the index /demoting them for no reason. You can't say I didn't do my share, almost 6 months and now FINALLY my index is ranking where it should be, the rest will follow....I hope.