How can you tell when another update is going to happen?

[Olavare]

Hello All,

I am wondering if anyone knows a way of telling when Google will do a update on links and ranking?

Thanks

[SEOPTI]

Yes, it happens on a daily basis.

[kidder]

I was going to say the sun comes up

[annej]

Are you talking about major updates? In that case no. Gone are the days of the monthly Google dance. Those were the good old days when SEO was simple. Each month you saw how you did and made adjustments. There was kind of a rush to them too. Like watching the roulette wheel spin.

[JudgeJeffries]

"When the seagulls follow the trawler......."

[thecityofgold2005]

it's a lot less exciting now. the days pre 2004 when google danced were the best, the nadir. oh, how we shall never have such fun again.

[zCat]

I was going to say the sun comes up

In the Google Empire, the sun never sets.

[MattJ]

I just managed to get .edu link which I am hoping will help my pr4 site. Would the pagerank help from that link start showing up in the search results after the source & destination pages are indexed?

One other issue was that the .edu page was not linked from anywhere and so had no PR. I politely emailed the author about the missing link and it was promptly fixed. I wonder what sort of ballpark timeframe it would be before I start seeing any result (assuming the link helps my site at all).

[mattg3]

When the moon is in the Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars

Data refreshes, algo tweaks are now daily

When major algo updates come, who knows, you need to et romantically affiliated with one of the Algo Team I guess to get that secret.

[andrewshim]

When the moon is in the Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
Data refreshes, algo tweaks are now daily

When major algo updates come, who knows, you need to et romantically affiliated with one of the Algo Team I guess to get that secret.

which is why I never sleep, drink coffee, and stare at my rankings all day and night.