Minor Shuffling - Incremental Indexing

Not enough changes to be an update.

[alexdo]

hi to all off google watchers

I see a huge changes in google serps across all the google datacenters in europe and asia but US serps are the same...

A few of my site goes up and a few goes down

Did you see the same changes?

Thanks

Alex

[digitalv]

Ok, here's an interesting question - I have two computers in front of me, both with the Google Toolbar installed. One of them is showing my site as a PageRank 9 where it was before this update. The other one is showing it as an 8. Cache cleared, refreshed, etc... what the heck?

[annej]

I see a couple of interesting things. Second level pages have replaced the home page on some 2 and 3 word search phrases. A little more like MSN results.

The most curious thing I've noticed is that when I search "widget history" the results don't just highlight "widget" but also "widgets" and "widgeting". I wonder if Google is looking at different forms of the same word now, they never did before. I don't see this happening on one word searches.

Many of my pages are down by one on PR but overall the key words & phrases I am most concerned about are still in the top 10. It's just all mixed around a little.

Right now I do the best overall on Yahoo. Too bad so few people use Yahoo.

[reseller]

digitalv

<Ok, here's an interesting question - I have two computers in front of me, both with the Google Toolbar installed. One of them is showing my site as a PageRank 9 where it was before this update. The other one is showing it as an 8. Cache cleared, refreshed, etc... what the heck? >

Try to uninstall and then reinstall the toolbar. It might help.

[McMohan]

I wonder if Google is looking at different forms of the same word now, they never did before.

Google has been doing stemming and highlighting various word forms for quite sometime now.

[rituel]

Minor ... not for me : I lost 3000 pages in 3 days!

[221b]

I just check 17/05/ logs
traffik +50% ,I had nearly a Hard attack during Alegra (but steady recovery from begining of March)now is the sweet harvest.

[arras]

What's goin on here,the scraper trash autogenerated sites from several UK affiliates > hehespot....of the type
http://www.widgetfoo.com/go.pl?zDgjv11164104431
dominates the most competitive terms.Google when are you going to vanish them?

[LostOne]

"I'd like to know if anybody who saw traffic go down on March 23 gets the numbers back to 90% of what they were"

Not happening here--off 60% from March 23. I don't see any changes in my industry.

[reseller]

arras

<What's goin on here,the scraper trash autogenerated sites from several UK affiliates.....>

You are looking at the Revenge of Affiliate Marketing.

Live and Let Live :-)

[helleborine]

Just trying to figure out why my site has dropped from #1 to position #4,678,011...

My site is a good site and the visitors it targets just love it. My site is THE authority site. There is no other. Many people spend a half hour on my site, viewing in excess of 300 pages.

Could it be a sudden increases in links? This is NOT reflected in the number of links in the link: command, but the increase is real.

In the past couple of months, when my site was enjoying the #1 position for its keyword, there has been a sharp increase in incoming links from many sites and from bloggers.

I have a page for every "free widget plan" I offer. There is a page for free "twisted" widget plan, free "wonky" widget plan, free "banana" widget plan, etc. Boatloads of scrapers for the keywords "twisted" "wonky" and "banana" have links to my sites.

My index page features a list of links to all my internal pages that contain "free widget plans." And for a long time I ranked poorly because Google thought my page was about "twisted wonky bananas." I added link titles and some text about widget plans, and that seemed to do the trick.

In closing, I'm guessing that my problem is either a surge in link popularity, or something with titles that may be too rich with keywords.