Google Links Update...

[canuck]

Seeing new links showing on the -ex, -in and -cw Google data centers. Also, several data centers are still not responding.

The post-Florida update drama continues...

- canuck

[Marcia]

You bet! And it's pretty current. I had someone take down some links to a site only a few days ago and they're not showing up now.

[dazzlindonna]

yes, and PR is updating as well on those datacenters. don't see any changes in SERPS (which seems to be normal during PR/backlink updates these days).

[Imaster]

I see the changes updated on the main .www datacenter

[antrat]

Me too. I have about 50 new pages that are now working their way up in rankings. I'm happy!

[antrat]

Just checked my backlinks, they have dropped by about 100. This seems to often happen just before new links are added. Maybe a PR increase :o)

[canuck]

2nd Link/PR update without any real changes in the SERPS.

*twiddle*

- canuck

[steveb]

I expect the changes in serps will occur when one or more of the awol datacenters comes back online.

Seems the updated backlinks are a bit more current than the updated pagerank. I can't see a post December 20 or so page with pagerank, but some post-January 1st pages are showing backlinks.

[NexDog]

The following data centers are timing out:

-va
-dc
-fi
-gv

Does that mean they are updating now?

[NexDog]

Hmm, I'm seeing no updated links in -ex, -in and -cw and there should be hundreds.

[IITian]

I am so glad that my week-old link from a weblog is showing that I almost forgot about my over four month-old DMOZ and over one month-old Stanford links that have never appeared as backlinks. Moreover, if I search for my domain name, the serps show the clones of DMOZ but not the DMOZ itself. Well, you gain some, and you lose some. :)

[steveb]

Your link isn't showing up because the cache of the dmoz page your link is on is ancient, and thus doesn't show your link. Google continues to base backlinks from some dmoz pages (and other sites too) that are from master caches as old as August, even if the page has been crawled and freshed many times. It doesn't seem consistent at all, but in some cases this is occuring, like yours. You can only hope that eventually they will (permanently) update the cache of your directory page.

[seofreak]

yes, and PR is updating as well on those datacenters. don't see any changes in SERPS (which seems to be normal during PR/backlink updates these days).

till 3 days back i was 160 for one of my keywords and 89 for other. the day after i vanished. yesterday i jumped to page 2 and 1 respectively and today the update. PR remains the same tho'

[IITian]

Does Google give credit for the PR4+ links that it does not show as backlinks even after the update? Yes, it has crawled that directory page many times and the temp cache showed my link, but, as you pointed out, it is not in the master cache.

[birdstuff]

A brand new site that I put up on Dec. 16th is now at PR3 on the updated datacenters.

[ChrisKud5]

I am seeing a lot of back and forth on the main www datacenter.

My PR so far has doubled for a new site 1.5 months old, and my fingers are crossed that the new PR and backlink update will improve my SERP.

I also experianced very heavy googlebot traffic today, with about 85% of pages being eaten up.

[seofreak]

IITian, hard to tell .. can be and may not be ..

e.g. a simple page might give the benefit immediately but a page which has got the 301 redirect .. may only show the benefits after 2 updates?

[atadams]

FWIW, a new site I put up in early Dec started showing PR yesterday afternoon on -kr, -ex, -cw.

(PR5 even, not too bad)

[conroy]

How do you check your PR on the various datacenters?

[ThomasB]

[webmasterworld.com...]
should help you

[HarryM]

Some pages I recently put up were PR0 for a couple of weeks, but today are fluctuating between PR0 and PR2 on www (toolbar values). There also appears to be changes in my backlinks.

I would expect to see these changes at one of the datacenters. However I can't find one which shows these changes, possibly because my list of datacenters/IP addresses is incomplete or inaccurate. Is there an accurate list? Or does anyone know which datacenter I should be looking at?

Harry

[TinkyWinky]

Definitely PR update (ing) - seeing PR5 on a site plus 40 or so internal pages.... still leaves a few hundred pages not PR'd but you can't have everything!

BTW this site went live 15th Dec-ish.... so about a month which seems about right!

[HarryM]

I don't see this as a full PR update. Google seems to be calculating the PR only for new pages recently indexed. In my case the pages affected had gone from grey to white on the toolbar prior to this change, but pages indexed on 10 January still show as grey.

[markus007]

My homepage went up by one and its not a new site.

[birdstuff]

A friend's 2 year old site just went from PR5 to PR6 on the home page.

[chrisk2012]

Sweet PR update.
I just had a site go from 6 to 7 for the front page. Internal pages appear to be lagging a little.

[g1smd]

>> I am seeing a lot of back and forth on the main www datacenter. <<

No you are not. You are seeing a result from a random datacentre each time you search.
There is not one datacentre at www, it is just a pointer to the real datacentres.

Search directly at each datacentre to see the real results: www-fi.google.com, -in, -va, -ab, -dc, -cw, -ex, -zu, -sj, -lm, -mc, and -kr.

For each datacentre -xx there is also a matching -xx2 datacentre too.

[martinibuster]

>>Sweet PR update

Happened over the weekend, yes.