Backlinks seem to be updated on -va

[seofreak]

just saw new PR showing up for sites and backlinks on -va

although I don't see that big a update for the backlinks, atleast for mine and other sites.

yahoo:

normal 759,000 backlinks
-va.google.com 762,000 backlinks

[edited by: vitaplease at 11:22 am (utc) on Nov. 20, 2003]
[edit reason] number typo [/edit]

[creep]

Seems like the relevance for any subject is gone. Amazon is showing for everything..that and HBO or other corporate sites. My younger brother searched for porn weallpaper and got everything from song lyrics to a jesus site..evrything but porn wallpaper

[WyrdoManx]

Look for string beginning something like:
[216.239.33.104...]
5. Right click this, choose 'open in new window'

Thanks James, I've been watching those XML files for a while. I guess I was being a little lazy in asking, and being a little cheeky in ensuring that there wasn't a better way.

As a return, I'll venture that using a web-monitor to watch those pages does not seem to successfully spot PR changes.

[alansk]

Sorry if I'm being a little slow here, but where should I look for that string?

[tolachi]

go to tools and click on internet options. The click on settings. In the popup click on view files. It should be there somewhere. You can right click on the name column to get the open in new window option.

[alansk]

Thanks, for some reason a search for "Temporary Internet Files" was bringing up nothing.

Anyway, that is a groovy way of finding out PR. I am now officially a big fat 4. Swish!

But anyway, back on topic, -va is deffo showing a backlink update. I've soared from none to four.

[vrtlw]

[quote]
try this:
1. clear your cache
2. Visit your site
3. view temp internet files
4. Look for string beginning something like:
[216.239.33.104...]
5. Right click this, choose 'open in new window'
6. In the browser window that pops up, alter the first part of the URL to:
[www-va.google.com...] etc
[\quote]

Mmm Thats a new one on me, dont see how that would affect the toolbarqueries.

I guess I'll have to play with that and test it but the hosts file has been they way to do it in the past.

[Lawnboyronmiller]

Right now,

Is "Va" considered the dance of what will become of it?

[BryantStevens]

Right now,
Is "Va" considered the dance of what will become of it?

Personally, I don't believe so. I think it is the only datacenter that DOESN'T have whatever new filter Google is using activated.

It appears as if Google is going live with this filter and eventually -va will mirror the other datacenters. They are probably just keeping the unfiltered results around for comparison and testing.

[steveb]

There is no "filter".

-va was the datacenter that lead the changes several days ago, and is now the datacenter most behind, being held kind of in reserve like -in was for awhile when the update started.

-va now has the spammiest and least updated results. It should change over to conform with the other datacenters pretty soon, but I'd guess it will stay like it is until all the other datacenters show the updated backlinks and pagerank.

[birdstuff]

My homepage PR has increased from 5 to 6 on -va, and my rankings have as well. The other data centers still show PR5. Problem is I have no clue what this means in relation to the final outcome, if anything.

[Marval]

for viewing your toolbar PR and backlinks on a datacenter wouldnt it be a lot easier just to change the hosts file to reflect the right IP addy? Ive been using that method and it seems to work just fine

[twilight47]

All I can say is, I'm glad va shows better backlinks and rankings. It puts a little hope back into the process.

[whatson]

Can some clear all of this up for me.
It seems that VA is the only one displaying relevant results. I am seeing this for my site as well, that is the only datacenter that my site ranks with.

VA has to be the most up to date, because it has the most up to date backward links, so all the other datacenters should change over to VA right?

Lets all hope that VA will be the true results.
I see that www is using Va quite a bit in their results as well.

Also how can you check your PR on a datacenter?

[BryantStevens]

VA has to be the most up to date, because it has the most up to date backward links, so all the other datacenters should change over to VA right?

You can scratch that idea. -va now shows all the same crappy results as the other datacenters. I, too, was holding out hope. Now that hope has been dashed.

[giggle]

Same here Bryant. I was hoping that VA would go live, now that it's gone all seems to be lost. Disaster.

[steveb]

Backlinks showing as updated on -va, -dc, -gv, -ab, -in, -fi, and kr... but not on on -lm, -cw, and -ex.

[Nikke]

I'm seeing new backlinks on a standard link: search on www.google.com right now.

[WebmasterFisherman]

It's still fluctuating in some datacenters
I get link:www.microsoft.com returning 0 now and then
in a few minutes it gets back to normal.
I'm checking -va, -ex, -in and -zu

[claimsweb]

.com & .uk seem updated

[Dave_Hawley]

No the're not. You must remember your sites are not the only ones on the WWW :o)

Dave

[superscript]

.UK updated

There may some hope folks - my well optimised commercial site is back at No 1 in the UK search having previously disappeared in the Florida massacre.

[claimsweb]

how do I check for backlinks without including my own internal links? I want to see who links in without wading thru the internal page links.

assume there's a negative -www... after the link syntax but I cant seem to crack it.

[superscript]

Hope in sight:

Guys, I know it is a very small sample (my own site) but it has now reappeared back in the top three for the second of my KW1 KW2 searches. If things continue like this is will be back to normal for this commercial site.

Is anyone seeing anything similar? Anyone seeing established sites making there way up through the SERPs again?

[apfinlaw]

Nothing here.

Watching like a hawk, though.....

[finer9]

My backlinks for my main PR7 site were updated today.

I went from 400 some links to 900 some links.

Josh

[oaktown]

-mc also seems to be a straggler when I check for the backlinks on my main site, but other than that, my results agree exactly with steveb's. The backlinks went from 3,250 to 4,580 so it's easy to spot where the bump kicked in.

I hope the last few will follow suit shortly;)

BTW, is anyone keeping track of exactly when these dcs swith over? If so, perhaps that data could suggest a pattern. I hope steveb is right about va being held as a reserve or bookmark.

[g1smd]

>> Backlinks showing as updated on -fi, -in, -va, -ab, -dc, -gv, and -kr, .... but not on on -cw, -ex, and -lm. <<

What about -zu, -mc, and -sj too?

[athinktank]

Im seeing an update on the main servers, www.google.com.

both backlinks and pr updated for me.
>5 sites have new information. Which was previously on -va

[AthlonInside]

>Im seeing an update on the main servers, www.google.com.

google.com itself is not a datacenter. :) It redirects to one of the datacenters (-va, -in ...)

[oaktown]

I did my morning sweep of the dcs and it looks to me as though the backlinks on all of them (except -lm and -mc) are now syncronized with what I saw initially on -va. Does this mean the "dance" is over?