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The panic is settling down, the whine of worry is receding to a steady hum in the back of my head, and several recovery plans are forming...
I lost my index page entirely, due to lazy keyword stuffing. My fault! Unfortunately, mine is a very small business: no listing = no food (let alone xmas).
I was planning on overhauling the website anyway, and I've given myself until 1/1/04 before I accept an opening with another business and abandon my own. The question now is: overhaul the index page and resubmit to Google immediately, overhaul the entire website and resubmit the whole thing in a few weeks, overhaul the website (starting with the index page of course) and wait for Googlebot. Time is most definitely a factor.
...are any of these plans likely to restore my index page to the directory before I have to throw in the towel in January?
There are also longer range options of starting over with a new website and closing the old.
Mahalo Nui Loa! (Thank you very much!)
Yes, index page back on -gv in position 3. Is not showing a freshtag, but I have nothing to compare this against (as the site is missing completely from all other DCs)
Let's face it, the only thing wrong with commercial results before the update was the fact that people were making money off G for free. It was never an issue of SPAMMY SEO'd sites upsetting the users, and with just a short time before G sell out for $15 billion or whatever it is they need to show the poor bas**ds that will be investors that they are making big money.
So does that make this the IPO update?
-in does seem to finally have been brought up to date. Just did a couple searches and it seems like its gone from the most obsolete to the most up to date serps (passing -ex for that title).
was I the first to notice that ;)?
oh, nevermind, someone has already posted on this :(
[edited by: Furmanov at 1:12 am (utc) on Nov. 20, 2003]
[edited by: jrokesmith at 1:15 am (utc) on Nov. 20, 2003]
Looks to me also like we are nearing the end. However, still a bit to go.
Sites that are dummy holders for link farms are being marked with a true after the title.
Is anyone else seeing this?
However, I also see the same if I type the URL into the search box on -gv, which for my KW search shows no freshtags.
Using a KW search on -gv returns a cached title for my site(not sure if it's an entire cached page. However, when I view the cache it shows the current version of the page, and not the old version.
So, despite the caches holding most recent versions of pages, the actual SERPs on -gv are showing 3 month old versions of pages.
I didn't note the exact dates, but from what I remember it was in the "weeks not months" timeframe mentioned at the time. After everything else seemed completely settled we were nowhere, then several days (maybe over a week?) we suddenly re-appeared. I put it down to a bug/glitch in the 'system'. Sorry I can't be more specific (and believe me it's hurting me too)
----edit, -in datacenter is bouncing around a lot right now, so nevermind ---
all other DCs show the new title. It is only -gv that shows the old title, whilst simultaneously caching the new title(?!) and ranking me where I would normally be.
by golly, you hit the nail on the head. my results are exactly like the google directory results! and since i'm not in dmoz..............................
oy!
could this explain why some people aren't seeing anything out of whack and some are?
Earlier today I noticed a heading underneath the SERPs on a regular Google search. This heading read "categories", and underneath it were listed several related Google Directory category links (I believe) from which results were being drawn.
[edited by: James_Dale at 3:17 am (utc) on Nov. 20, 2003]
