Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
Reseller,
Having looked at these dc's in some detail, I have to disagree with you (tho glad you're making a comback!).
Because of major changes to a site I have in the OCT-FEB period, I can pinpoint the vintage of the index quite easily (and confirm the site specific results with others I am familiar with). What I see on these dc's is an index made up of ancient results (circa AUG 2005) with some additions from FEB or so.
If this truly is the result of the carnage of the switch to BD then Google has accomplished nothing in the FEB-15 to current timeframe.
If as you say, Google knows exactly what they're doing, what they are apparently trying to achieve is to augment the AUG-05 index with a few new pages. If you mean Google intended to "break down" the entire index and rebuild it "live" - unlike in the past where more or less finished updates rolled onto all dc's over a 5-7 day period - then I might agree. What I can't see is the reseller frindly ® dc's being anything but yet another interim step. The difference is, I see the process as scambling to try and fix an unanticipated scru-up, you see it as an deliberate plan.
Either way, I'm counting the days until Microsoft rolls out their new product as Google is ripe for the taking ... takes awhile for the public to turn against a SE but there certianly is precedent (remember when you couldn't turn on your TV without seeing ads for Lycos?).
From a webmaster point of view, the ideal world is MSN, Google, Yahoo with 30% market share each.
[edited by: tedster at 10:32 pm (utc) on April 6, 2006]
Dayo_UK:Google are still using the old Googlebot scoring factors ... as this bot has pretty much retired.
Wishful thinking, methinks.
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It has certainly slowed in April, but no means retired.
My bad. You are correct, Dayo_UK. The old G-bot last visited my site on 28 March; other so-called visits were from some prat at a German university forging the UA. It seems to have retired [webmasterworld.com] (msg#18).
64.233.187.104 sure looks like the sandbox with concrete piled on top of it. Some sites that have crawled up into the single digits dropped back into the 600s.
Keep posting the DCs. I follow your posts daily.
"(Reseller please stop posting DCs that rank your site well. It may have been funny at first but its way past old now.)"
So you haven't understood what its all about, steveb, unfortunately ;-)
Those are a group of datacenters which have been showing different serps than the rest of the DCs for sometime. They just remind me of most of Pre-Allegra Google's serps. True my site rank well. But should that be enough reason not to watch and report changes of them?
I find it also entertaining in fact to keep an eye on those DCs :-)
There should be a place for some positive happy posts, sometimes. Not only sad war stories.
As to the name of that special DCs group, I might call it "Emmy Datacenters" in future, instead of The Reseller Friendly DCs. Provided that Matt Cutts doesn't mind, of course :-)
Back to talk DCs....
My ladies are still there this morning, btw :-)
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Have a great happy positive weekend
"There should be a place for some positive happy posts, sometimes."
Actually, no, not here. Post in the Foo forum if you want to talk about how your sites are doing. Datacenters watch means watching developments on datacenters, not "telling people how my sites are doing".
:-)
I'm not seeing this. I still am waiting for a recovery to my traffic but I am *this close* to giving up on it ever coming back. After all the talk about Google's obliteration of sites with affiliate links I tend to agree. Affiliates are now a dying breed, replaced with results that attempt to find discussion/information of the niche products that is outside the realm of the original merchant's product description. And guess what, in the majority of cases this simply does not exist.
Black hat and automation is looking more and more appealing every day, sheesh.
"After all the talk about Google's obliteration of sites with affiliate links I tend to agree. Affiliates are now a dying breed, ..."
In fact affiliates are living very well on my friendly DCs. It wasn't by accident I called them "Reseller Friendly". They are aslo affiliates frindly, IMO ;-)
The ones who have been dying since last year are "Thin Affiliates". "Content Affiliates" as our kind member Europe For Visitors have been doing well, as far as I know. Right EFV?
