July Update?

[Heywood_J]

Is it me or does it look like a significant update is going on at google. I am noticing a number of SERP changes for a few of my sites and they've been fluctuating for the past few days.

Anyone else noticing any major changes?

[raptorix]

To be honest, i don't see any changes really.

[Teknorat]

Apart from having more pages indexed I don't see much difference.

[steveb]

Some of the datacenters are at odds, with some pages that have been say #6 for a year now showing at #3 on a few and #9 on a few others (and "normal" on the rest). The crappier results seem to be favoring anchor text or raw link numbers from forums. This is bad for obvious reasons, but also favors sites that get those deep, never-seen-by-humans pages crawled versus similar sites where those type of pages either aren't vrawled or have gone to URL only.

I don't see any compensating positives here. Recent subdomain crap still hasn't been culled out here like it normally is after a couple cycles.

[willybfriendly]

Main site went from 3 to 2 about a week ago, and now down to 4 on the main single keyword. SOme movement on other searchb terms, but pretty minor. Updates (if that is what this is) just aren't what they used to be.

WBF

[rfgdxm1]

>Main site went from 3 to 2 about a week ago, and now down to 4 on the main single keyword. SOme movement on other searchb terms, but pretty minor. Updates (if that is what this is) just aren't what they used to be.

Exactly. Basically, I think what is going on is that in the Google Dances of days gone by, Google all at once threw in the new page data, new backlinks, new anchor text, new algo etc. into the pot at once. So, the update was major. What we see in this update is likely just one of these new elements being rolled in.

[Marcia]

AFAIC this is not in any way an "update" in the traditional sense of the word, or even by recent criteria for calling something an update. I personally don't believe there's any such thing that'll ever happen again, not even when the backlinks and TPR "appear" to be updated. IMHO that's just showing something that's already happened, who_knows_when.

I also don't believe that sandboxing thing is a probationary dealie for new sites, in spite of the apparent delay. I think it's got more to do with some kind of off-line processing so that the processing effiency real-time can be more efficient than it otherwise would be.

Where in the world would I get such a hair-brained, half-baked theory? From reading Kleinberg - SETS for starters. :)

[mosschops]

Anyone else seeing the update cancel itself? Some change yesterday but back to old SERPS today.

[decaff]

It looks relatively stable in a couple of my sectors..
but then again lately I always view the SERPs with my eyes wide shut...

[LogicMan]

I've haven't been following the 'update' process much lately because I thought Google was using a continuous update not a monthly update.

What is the status? Continuous or Monthly?

[phpdude]

I'm seeing sites that have spent heavily on links from larger sites are being highly rewarded!

Guess it's time to break out the check book!