I have mentioned in posts in the past about how I'm trying to compete in a niche that pulls 80 million results for the main keyword.
The result for that keyword now pulls only 32 million.
There has been a lot of talk of late with the updates and how alot of people seem to be getting hit with duplicate content penalties. Not only this, but alot of people are pointing out the number of supplemental results being returned, myself included.
The affect of that was seen when I did a site search, and all results except for the index page and 2 other pages were returned as supplemental.
As a result of that little query, I did a 301 from example.com to www.example.com (after being blugeoned to death by g1msd which I thank very much) and doing a rewrite from www.example.com/index.htm to www.example.com/
I had already set up the domain preference in Googles new tool, right when it came out, but alas, did not see any immediate results.
What I have noticed in the past 3 days, is not only the results amount dropping significantly, but it appears the site: operator is return results from at least 1 month ago.
Has anyone else noticed such a drastic change in the results for their keyword?
Is all of this the results of the updates that have been going on lately or is there a ghost in the machine?
