Update Jagger, Google Update Oct 18th, 2005

When can we expect a new PR update?

[jretzer]

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Anyone have any guesses as to when we can expect a new systemwide PR update?

[FranceFan]

I haven't been following the SEO news much lately but I gather that there has just been another PR update. Does anyone have an idea when the next one is due?

I ask because I need to rename a number of pages and I would like to do it just before a PR update so that there is minimim downtime (from my pages going to PR 0 after the name change).

Thanks for any estimates,
Doug Stewart

[edd1]

October 7th 8th update?

I missed that one.
It's the one about a week ago that has killed us.

[edd1]

This update has really hit us hard, it's the first time ever and for the moment I'm not changing anything because I don't think we've done anything wrong and a lot of people I trust on this forum are saying pretty much the same thing.

Being completely objective, could this update seriously actually stick?

[theBear]

edd1,

Most things are possible. Too early to tell what is what.

[BillyS]

Google's offline right now, interesting...

It's back, seems like a DNS problem.

[edited by: BillyS at 12:01 am (utc) on Oct. 26, 2005]

[randle]

Being completely objective, could this update seriously actually stick?

Most likely in some form, what you see will stick. I don’t recall an update that resulted in a full and total retreat. Whatever phase two, and three bring, it’s going to be along these lines, not something radically different.

With that said, I remember Florida, so many of our sites we couldn’t even find, never mind ranking for anything. Eventually almost all came back, took a long time, but they did in fact recover. As long as your site has not been technically penalized, the odds are very good you will return. (Doesn’t solve today’s traffic problem, but the point is don’t scrap the site and chase a radical solution)

[jadebox]

SERPS show these two types of urls (In serps view of listings)

www.test.com/testing/test-test.html
www.test.com/ testing/testing.html

Why is there a space in the url sometimes and sometimes not?

The spaces are added so that the URL will wrap and look okay when displayed.

-- Roger

[walkman]

>> October 7th 8th update?

I looked at the logs...I guess it could've been the one on the 3rd or so, as it takes a while to propagate to all DCs.

This week I did change a few things, mostly on the conservative side (made even whiter hat onpage).

Whether it sticks or not, you never know; it may stick for months too. It has happened before

[federico]

hello everyone,

i'have really enjoyed the forum especially about 'bacon polenta'?) not a bad dish actually ...

does anyone disagree with the notion that this update is heavily skewed in favor of content sites vs e-commerce driven?

top ten serps are almost always review sites when they are not PR 7 + ...

[edited by: jatar_k at 8:36 pm (utc) on Oct. 26, 2005]
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[nippi]

First update that I have to say, I'm unable to see a clear pattern, or reason for anything.

I've got a few sites up, a few sites down, but more where I can say AHA! This site went down, and it differs from these others sites in this or that way.

Very frustrating. I have my ideas, but nothing which is totlaly concrete.