Recent return from supplemental index

Anyone else seeing this?

[Jane_Doe]

I'm not sure if this will last, but I've actually had a couple of sites that stopped getting much Google traffic and had most pages in the supplemental index last year get put back into the main index again recently. Google referrals have been restored to their old levels.

Is anyone else seeing this?

[bobmark]

I thin it WAY to early to tell.

What you are likely seeing is the FEB index returning (i.e. Google routing searches to datacentres housing the most recent index).

Where I am (Canada) Google has been switching routing every day for the past 2 weeks or so, feeding off a BD dc part of the day, the most recent FEB index the other part.

[Jane_Doe]

What you are likely seeing is the FEB index returning

It is not just a February index I'm seeing as these sites had very little Google traffic throughout the last year, including this past February. They are getting more Google traffic in one day now than they got in all of this past February.

These are sites that went mainly supplemental over a year ago and are now back in the main index.

[dethfire]

I have not seen my site recover yet

[bobmark]

what url?

I can find the "BD Index" and the most recent (FEB) index on different dc's.

What you're saying is either there is a third index OR, what some of us suspect, each time Google switches to BD some work is being done concurrently so the BD and FEB indexes are being merged a little each day. In that case you may be an early recovery on whatever random order its happening.

[bobmark]

p.s I meant the url of the dc not your sites' url.

[caveman]

I agree that there's a lot going on right now. I personally don't think it's all related to supp's handling, but that seems to be a part of it.

It's sorta wierd to talk about it in terms of just supps though, at least IMO, because pages going supp is caused by different things, and some sites with supp issues are still trashed, while others have come back.

Plus another site I know that did not have tons of pages in supps but hasn't done well for past 16 months also just came back.

[Jane_Doe]

I can find the "BD Index" and the most recent (FEB) index on different dc's.

They seem to be back consistently on all DCs. Though interestingly, when I search for a unique snippet of some syndicated articles for a different site, the number of sites that have picked up the articles varies quite a bit. So I guess that occurs depending on what DC I hit. So those changes are not consistent, yet the other sites return does seem to be consistent.

I've also had a couple of new sites all of a sudden pick up more Google traffic these last few days.