Results Seem to Be Normalising

PHEW! Im a relieved

[Krapulator]

Results on www2 and www-sj seem to have normalised somewhat in the last hour or so.

Im tentively breathing a sigh of relief!

[martinibuster]

normalised somewhat in the last hour or so.

The last hour? Isn't there a nice pub you should be at or something?

(Said with friendliness!)

:) Y

Krapulator... is that a reference to Neverwinter Nights?

[Powdork]

It looks the www-fi index. Same backlinks as the old -sj index but different serps. Maybe it has some of the spam filtered?

[Krapulator]

hehehe. Its mid working day in Australia at the moment and no matter how hard I try - I cannot drag myself aweay from the Google data-centres for more than half an hour or so.

I know its sad.

"is that a reference to Neverwinter Nights?"

Not a deliberate one :-)

[Krapulator]

Im still not showing backlinks on any of them...I'm feeling optimistic now though!

[jimh009]

Don't panic everyone! Googleguy - not surprisingly - was right.

Two days ago, my home page, which ranked 2-3 for a low popularity keyword, disappeared from the results on -SJ. A secondary page for my site replaced it buried in the SERPS. I thought either Google "misplaced" the page or perhaps penalized it for some bizaare reason beyond my comprehension.

But, just an hour ago, on www3.google, the page has come back - ranked number 1, to boot. Backlinks are still showing the big drop this update has, so, the moral of the story is this - if you had some pages and/or results disappear on -SJ, just give it time. Unless you did something bad - it will probably come back.

Jim

[Laurel]

jimh009,
Thank you for the kind words I really needed to hear those right now!

[rfgdxm1]

Certainly not much change on the SERPs I usually watch.

[Krapulator]

Bugger - its gone back to the crappy results again!

I QUIT! Surely bricklaying or something has got to be less stressful than this...

[Visi]

Cement...brick...cement...brick....cement...coffee...cement...oops...start again:) Just like this SEO stuff:)

[jimh009]

My prescription for relieving the stress of this peculiar update - ban Webmasterworld and Google in your host file for the next couple of days and go make web pages!

Jim

[Stefan]

ban Webmasterworld and Google in your host file for the next couple of days and go make web pages!

...and hope those pages get crawled by Ink, then at least you'll get a fair listing.

[rfgdxm1]

I'll gather Krapulator that this update didn't go so well for you? ;) I still can't figure out has plummeted from #4 to #14 on the most important search term. Down a bit for most other search terms also. Even a spammer slipped in, and all the SERPs I target aren't usually spammed. I can't believe Google's spam filters let this spammer get in by a redirect from another site, as the keyword in question *doesn't appear anywhere in the page source code*. Sigh. I never though 0% keyword density, and not even the keyword in the page title or description would beat me out. I guess there is still hope something will improve, but my guess is this is just the way it will be. :(

[rfgdxm1]

>...and hope those pages get crawled by Ink, then at least you'll get a fair listing.

Hmm...#2 in Ink on my most important keyword, #1 in Teoma, #1 on Alltheweb, #5 on Altavista, and even #1 on Wisenut. While I languish at #14 on Google. I've never been lower than #8 on Google on this SERP, and that was long ago before I picked up some extra good backlinks. Makes me look forward to when Yahoo switches to Ink.

[Stefan]

Should call it update "Dog's breakfast" imho.

[grifter]

How about "Don't bite the hand that feeds (and has fed) you" and stick it out a bit. Yeesh.

[Powdork]

While I languish at #14 on Google. I've never been lower than #8 on Google on this SERP, and that was long ago before I picked up some extra good backlinks. Makes me look forward to when Yahoo switches to Ink.

Do those backlinks show up now on the other datacenters? Actually, nevermind. Just did a bit of research. Check allinanchor for that phrase. You dropped from 4 to 16.

<added>and its a different page at 16</added>

[Krapulator]

Looking good again!

Am I the only one seeing the results bounce back and forth in -sj and www2?

[DroffatsX3]

I'm seeing results on www2 and www3 I don't see on any of the datacenters.

My mistake, I'm seeing totally new results now on -sj than earlier today, same as on www2 and www3.

[edited by: DroffatsX3 at 4:06 am (utc) on May 7, 2003]

[crobb305]

I see a lot of movement on -sj. In fact, my site just jumped from page 5 to page 1 for a major keyword. Backlinks haven't changed, but the number of results found on searching for mysite.com has nearly doubled in the past hour. Interesting that some of the data centers (www-ab for example) showing fresh date tags from May 5.

C

[Oaf357]

Calm down people.

It's obvious this update is far from over and things could change overnight or over the next week.

Don't loose sleep over this.

Listen to some Bob Marley or something and generate some more content for the next deep crawl.

[Powdork]

As I switch back and forth between www2, www3, -sj, -fi I notice that 2, 3, and -sj have the same serps for a search but that www2 is serving up different premium sponsored (not adwords) links for the same search.
BTW, if we can vote one off ala Survivor, I vote for -fi.;)

[Krapulator]

I second that vote.

[coosblues]

Yesterday I was totally down in the dumps watching the -sj datacenter. My page which had normally been listed 5 out of over 70,000 was buried so far I quit looking. Just glanced at -sj and www2 and now it's number 3. Who knows where it will be when I check it again, but there is hope and the datacenters are really moving. Who knows what the pr is going to turn out, but in my opinion the SERPs are what I care most about. Just my 2 cents but if these results hold up then Google is really following their "quality guidelines" to a tee and those of us that followed the guidlines will be treated well, and those that didn't play fair are going to be quite unhappy.

[rfgdxm1]

>Do those backlinks show up now on the other datacenters? Actually, nevermind. Just did a bit of research. Check allinanchor for that phrase. You dropped from 4 to 16.
<added>and its a different page at 16</added>

EXCELLENT sleuthing, Sherlock. ;) Only problem is that I haven't lost any backlinks with the anchor text. In fact, it looks like Google found my ODP category listing this month. For last month, for whatever reason none of the sites in that category showed the ODP backlink. Perhaps with all the ODP server problems a while back Googlebot never was able to spider that cat? Looks like somehow Google is hosed, and while it recognizes backlinks to my site, it isn't crediting me with the anchor text to the home page. And, I assure you that many of the sites higher than me haven't picked up new backlinks with that keyword in the anchor text. Some in fact are "living fossil" pages that nobody has thought about in years.

[WebMistress]

I knew this update would come around....was #1 before this update then dropped to who knows where...couldn't even find myself earlier today, but back to #1 now on -sj....I'm looking forward to the rest of this update. Good luck to all of you!