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Today, everything seems to be back as it should be; the index page is returned when I search on the site name, and it has been boosted a couple a places from its pre-Dom ranking.
Is anyone else seeing this problem getting fixed for their own sites?
What matters most, is that people are actually searching for what you provide. ( info, products, etc.. )
I think all my people are on vacation, and probably will be until August.
Let's just hope google indexes are pages well by then.
There is no guessing in objective facts. Perhaps you think "data failure" means something more catastrophic, but the failed deepcrawl and missing backlinks is an objective failure that nobody who spent five minutes looking would need to "guess" at.
Google is broken?
These are the reasons why all the serious threads discussing the related topic have so many noises making them so lenghtly and useless. :(
Serious poster has always request those that disagree to stay out of the thread but it usually ended up with noises dominating the thread. :(
But the problem will temporary be solved by now. But it would 'rise' again one day.
I have been seeing guestbook spam everywhere. And its not as if they are being shown but being discounted .... the guestbook links are the ONLY ones they have!
If it's a problem it's still not fixed. If it's an intentional filter, they are still messing with it. Either way, we may not be out of the water yet, and may still see a return to those truly awful SERPS of the last few weeks.
I'm seeing the same thing as you on -fi.
My best guess is that in the switchover from the traditional once a month update process to continuous updating, either Google managed to temporarily break the guestbook filters; or they intentionally removed them temporarily because they had more important worries. This just isn't the biggest of priorities that they worry about. Not that they totally don't care, but in the middle of major upgrade there are bigger fish to fry.
Your request that people who do not agree with you have no right to participate in a discussion is truly arrogant.
rfgdxm1, yes I agree that they have probably removed the filter for the time being. But guest book links are having a huge effect on many competitive keywords at present. Once they are reapplied, we should see significant changes to those SERPS.
I'm just happy that my main problem site which nosedived into obscurity after Dominic has returned to the #3 spot (then gone again for 3 days, then back again) and has now been stable for 5 days.
I could care less anymore how the sites ahead of me got there. Recent events have made me realise that a good ranking is a good ranking. If people spam to get ahead, whatever...
After two months of virtually no sales via google free listings, it's great to see those clicks coming in again!
Discussion is good. But discussion with too many noise is not so good. Then why do you think Brett need to premoderate this special forum? :)
No bad spam and I'm right where I should be on all the datacenters.
For several sets of SERPS I watch, -fi is exactly the same as all the others where as a few weeks ago it was all over the place.
So perhaps, the filters and missing data are being brought in over a period of time and it just affects block of sites at different intervals.
I have not seen the SERPS I monitor including fi this stable for several months.
The general heading is "fresh trash", but to be more specific, I mentioned something a month ago and sent in a spam report as Google Guy requested. Basically some guy was making multiple 1000 page "sites" that were 90% identical (the ads part) and had a couple paragraphs of text that was changed so that each page was "unique". Problem was the text was not coherent at all -- keywords wre just randomly inserted in the same place on each page, so that you might get "wear a sweater when it is cold" on one page and on another it would say "wear a tractor when it is cold". 1000 pages of gibberish, done on ten domains, so like 10,000 pages of this gibberish total.
These pages ranked well for many, many terms because they were optimized up the wazoo -- one thousand links of laserbeam anchor text per keyword, page titles stuffed with the keyword, page text stuffed with gibberish using the keyword.
Well, Google swooped in and slapped all this trash down when stuff settled down the other day. But now, once again, new trash appears. No content at all except the gibberish text, and ranking at #1 for some specialized stuff, and at #15 for a very competitive term.
It still seems that a way to beat the new Google is to throw up insta-site after insta-site with nothing but hyper-optimization. Maybe sites like this will be able to do well for three weeks out of the month, before they are slapped down for good like what happened a few days ago.
On the other hand, it may be just that this site escaped when all its brothers were squashed. I hope so, because the implications of heavily seo'ed disposable "fresh" pages are pretty scary.
These sites are like those bugs in the commercials fearing getting spraid by Raid bug spray... when pagerank is introduced, they die. But for now, its self-generated anchor text is winning the day.
In addition to -FI starting to lose the odd site, some of the other centers are missing index files as well, but only on the first search. Repeating the search and all is fine.
It has the feel of instability. It happens for the odd site, and not always at the same center.
We are obviously not on the same scale as 2 weeks ago, but the problem is there. Of course it could be a transiant feature, but it could also be the start of the slippery slope to those crap results again.
One site that we follow is still showing dead backlinks (from April) and another new site with backlinks still shows no PR as well as our new pages added over the last 3 months - they are in the index.
It seems that although some would like to put the last update to bed there are still a lot of loose ends to wrap up.
What I am seeing right now on -fi seems quite different from what is on the other data centers. Anyone else seeing a significant change?
My site is nowehere to be found on -fi, ww2, or ww3 however for all other datacenters that i've checked we moved up 8 pages.
I see the same for some sites in the serps I watch (gibberish text spammers - maybe not as sophisticated as your). There's a small group that sell SEO services no less - all with hiden text and interlinks, and another inside a bigger chain of sites that spans different industries.
I guess what I get from this is that, although the serps look decent, I don't think simple spam is being dealt with yet.
