Is this a big google update going on?

watching the data centers

[eskipii]

i'm seeing a big change in some data centers, looks awesome. this is one fine christmas gift.

[cleanup]

Taps,
I can concur, my Jagger (Sept 28th) site is back for its homepage. Don't know how much to read into that.

I saw those results briefly two weeks before Xmas, just for a few hours.

[taps]

I see those results for at least six hours now. Better results on other DCs too :-)

Great results also on [64.233.179.104...]

Not all pages are back on any DC. But maybe the penalty is taken away from my site.

Dayo: Do you see anything new?

[Dayo_UK]

Weird - this has made the homepage of WebmasterWorld in the manner it has.

We know there is an update brewing - not really a question of yes or no.

Taps - not much to add to what I said last night about some homepages coming back but not ranking.

One of my tests for sites that had problems is a site:www.domain.com www.domain.com search - I think that the www.domain.com(homepage) should be top on these searches.

For a lot of sites this is not the case - however switch to an advanced search and choose pages within the last 3 months and the www.domain.com(homepage) is coming first on most dcs.

Might be insignificant - but it might be that Google are getting to grips with the issue :/

Mozilla Googlebot pretty active over the Xmas period.

[reseller]

Dayo_UK

>>Mozilla Googlebot pretty active over the Xmas period.<<

Well.. I told ya before that Mozilla Googlebot is Anti-Spam Detective, which mostly visit "suspected" sites.

Have you done anything with your site that Matt wouldn't recommend you to do :-)

[trraju]

by any ways does anyone thinks that the the domain name with www and without www is fixed.
i mean www.example.com and example.com is fixed?
i have seen almost all my sites showing same pr with www or without www after this update;

regards
trraju

[Dayo_UK]

reseller

But I dont think it is an Anti-Spam Detective bot.

[spainly]

hey taps :)

nice to hear you say : "I can see my homepage first when doing site:www.mysite.xy"

do you think all sites that do not show the homepage first when doing site:www.mysite.xy are penalized?

merry merry christmas

[gralon]

"do you think all sites that do not show the homepage first when doing site:www.mysite.xy are penalized?"

i'm pretty sure that's true (after doing some tests)

[Dayo_UK]

>>>do you think all sites that do not show the homepage first when doing site:www.mysite.xy are penalized?

I am pretty sure that is true too.

Whether it is a penalty or a problem/bug is the issue though (IMO)

[FromRocky]

do you think all sites that do not show the homepage first when doing site:www.mysite.xy are penalized?

I don't think so. It may be a homepage penalized but not the site.

[Dayo_UK]

FromRocky

That is what makes me think it might be a problem - eg a homepage problem can maybe occur due to Homepage Canonical problems or a 302 hijack - most of these problems effect the homepage more than any other page.

For a penatly to be applied just to the homepage seems a bit strange and would be easy to get around - it also results in internal pages still being able to rank and outrank the homepage for its own site name.

A bit of a strange way of applying a penalty - but who knows for sure.

[macdave]

Interesting observation on the homepage ranking for a site: search. As of this morning, I concur.

For as long as I can remember site:mysite.com has returned a very random sample of pages. As of right now it's returning the home page and a couple other important pages at the top. At the same time, in the last couple hours our Google traffic has come back up to pre-Sept. 22 levels, an increase of nearly a thousand percent.

Whether this is the effect of a filter or just an algo shift I can't say, but the site: ranking and our G traffic seem to go hand in hand.

[Pico_Train]

I've got pages disappearing in the index and others sticking around.

The word, whatever, once again returns to mind.

[spainly]

in my main site i can see that site:domain.com is returning the pages in a strange order (homepage not in first results and priorizing a tiny section of the web), in fact. All my others domain have a clear importance order in the site:domain.com results.
i am considering it not a penalty but a sign that google has index problems with my site ( supplementals and 301 ) . It only happens in my jagger affected domain.
i would like to hear any thoughts about this disorder.

[Dayo_UK]

spainly

That is my conclusion also. It feels like an indexing problem.

macdave

This is independant of the test DC though?

[edited by: Dayo_UK at 5:10 pm (utc) on Dec. 27, 2005]