Update Saga. Part 5

[Brett_Tabke]

What say you?

Over and done with?

All done all through?

[Gimp]

I see changes in my patterns also.

I would expect that the Google staff is going to test and tweak and test until they get the update to do what they want it to do. They have some goal and surely some standards against which they are testing.

You know they have to make it right. If not, they get one big black eye.

So I guess we will see up and down and around while they try to make it right.

So we just wait and work on that which we control. As for the SERPS, for now they are just leaves in a Google data storm.

[phochief]

After making several changes, my cache, title and description have all reverted back to what they were a couple of days ago too.

If GG said that 66.102.9.104 is going to be the DC from where Jagger's final update will come from, what does the fluctuating of all those other DC's have to do with anything? Unless you think those "post-jagger" DC's are now going to be the de facto results?

Wish GG would get in here to clear this up.

[StriderUK]

I too wish we had some word from GG... if only to say 'the updates are nearly done' or 'we are not happy with the results and are tweaking a little more' or even 'we cannot talk about the update at the present time'. My site was hit hard and I am making several changes sitewide - but who knows... if they are still tweaking I might be doing more harm than good..?

[Gimp]

Making changes now is just shooting in the dark.

I am just going over the site for broken links, titles, descriptions. And adding new content all day long.

[Perfection]

I have 2 quick not-COMPLETELY-Jagger related questions, so rather than waste a new topic, I'll ask here.

Let's say I have a site that has been indexed by Google for years. Let's also say that I just completely changed the content (2 days ago) of one of the top level pages (PR6) of this site. I see today that Google's cache of this page shows the updated content.

My first question is, how long should it be before this page starts ranking in the SERPS based on this NEW content? Should it be as soon as the cache shows the new content (which is now) or will there be a little bit of a delay? Maybe even until the next big update?

My second question is exactly the same, but instead of updated content of an already indexed page, I'm wondering about a completely new page that has just been indexed yesterday which is part of a site already indexed.

I've been sort of out of the SEO world for little while, so the answers to these questions have changed since I last knew them. =]

[lee_sufc]

Just noticed all DCs have changed back to what they were a couple of days ago for me! This morning, results on some DCs looked brilliant - as did google.co.uk, but now everything has reverted back!

Shame - I knew I shouldn't have got my hopes up :-(

[tigger]

yep same here - gone, lets hope when they come back we come back stronger

[lee_sufc]

TIGGER, out of curiosity, when the results looked good this morning, ie. on [66.102.7.104...] did u notice a big improvement? Also, if Dayo is reading, did u notice anything?

The reason I ask is that I notice throughout this update that you two have had problems at exactly the same time as me...

[tigger]

not a big improvement more like slight at least when that DC was showing it would pull my site at the top if I searched for the URL now I've vanished again, although my buried rankings (2nd page and worse) are still in the same position with this current DC - confused YEP completely

[McMohan]

Any of you at the PubCon now? Any latest news about Jagger? GG, if you get time can you update from the PubCon please?