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1) Very Happy -Doing great up there for all my important terms.
2) Happy - Slightly higher rankings than last month.
3) Average - Haven't really gained or lost.
4) Poor - Lost quite a few important keywords.
5) Diabolical - The whole update is awful please revert back to current SERPS.
GG mentioned things would start to improve as they factored things in.....mine haven't so I'm going for number 5....hoping that they will at some point....
My own experience: I was ranked great for very important keyphrases the last 6 months along with another 9 sites who all jostled for position on the first page. I'm now page 7 and they are all still jostling for the first page although I have far more backlinks, pages indexed etc... etc....
3 for what's on www
The update hasn't happened, I can't gauge the results until it does.
When sites have yet to be brought in? Make no sense from a user standpoint, let alone a SEO.
With every other refresh, we are getting -sj results on G.com- just bad.
5
In fact run a search on the toolbar and run the same search in the address bar- uh, can we say inconsistant, incomplete, and incomprehensible?
My traffic has almost halved over the past two days. I can see the new results on sj, www, www2, etc - everywhere.
The fact that my traffic (which has been stable for months) just has halved suggests that lots of users are already seeing the new update on the live www server.
My new competitors are a large set of one-page domains, heavily crosslinked with practically no visible external inbound links, and a relatively good pr.
Try this thread again in a weeks time.
TJ
Understanding that the index is obviously incomplete, I CAN NOT understand why they would be rotating it into G.com?
I was being totally reasonable before, knowing this was behind the scenes and being reassured by what GG said. But to wake up this morning and see these MISERABLE SERPs rotating LIVE has taken this issue to a whole new level in my consideration.
We haven't seen that at all and have been watching closely. Odd. Do you still see it now? Maybe someone hit the wrong red button and just undid it?
I (believe) I have seen GG posts implying that the average Joe would not know a difference if they used the new algo with a two-month-old index (or maybe someone else said that).
Webmasters, some at least, would certainly be less trusting of G in the future if they published an old index now...but maybe that's not all bad...
To me it all says, hope for the best, plan for the worst...
yes we see it. clear as day. about every 5th or 6th refresh.
quite bothersome to see this.
Understanding that the index is obviously incomplete, I CAN NOT understand why they would be rotating it into G.com?
I know - judging by the (too) numerous postings on this, a lot of people are asking the same question.
As other people have said though, most users wouldn't notice that, and it's unlikely to harm the google image from a users perspective.
I can only guess that they're monitoring users searches, and click throughs on the results, as a means of testing the data and algo.
A bit like software companies going straight to release rather than beta stage and then waiting for bug reports from users......
TJ
I have been seeing sj creep into www for a few days now. It has increased however.
Google Guy said repeatedly that he thought that we would foirst see sj in the new index and THEN they would gradually add backlinks/filters.
This is the part that is confusing to me as well. Why would they put a self described incomplete index live?
Also, to all those that are happy with sj results now, keep in mind that there will be a major shift soon when all the last 2 months links are factored in.
my serps on -sj haven't changed at all in the last couple of days.
Yeh, it was GG.
Perfect clean site.
PR6
Nothing dodgy.
Had 400 backlinks.
#4 on WWW > #145 on SJ for competitive phrase.
(#1 in March against very stiff competion)
5
I'm fairly confident, though, that when the update is finished my rankings will be the same or better than last update.
Beth
Craig
Four sites which ranked very well the last 6 months, are nowhere to see for my important keywords. I can't imagine why these sites are doing so bad in sj, because they have really good content and I don't use Guestbooks, Hidden Text, Hidden Links or stuff like this.
greg
whats the point?
lets vote on the process. that is more clear. last month, wham -a rolling update, clean and swift. this month a total mess. blame it on a algo or filter tweaks if you will. the second incomplete results went live, is the second G lost my vote on this one.
before they would revert to last months index for 2-3 days during the dance. these days, they just put out incomplete and inconsistant results.
LisaB
>>>there must be a very good reason for them doing that
Let's hope- as they are the brilliant ones. Maybe something like WE HAD TO do it this way cause... would be a good start.
For my oldest site (just over a year) it's a 3. For my newer sites a 4, some of my best revenue generating phrases have been swamped with the spam masters of yesteryear.
