August 17 Disaster

[joelbauca]

another data refresh from google, another supplemental hell tickets for me Most of my pages have gone supplemental, traffic is down 50%

Big Daddy, pls stop refreshing....

[mistermix]

ive noticed a few pages dropping out of index today too. Hopefully they will pop back up in a better position soon...

[Dave Gold]

I have been having trouble all month. I'm noticing that the same freaking domains are coming up on searches over and over. It's like an exclusive PR4+ club over there and I only have a few domains that meet that status.

[roger123]

Well, I had some one month old sites which were showing up on the first page for certain keyword phrases. But from today they are moved to 3rd or 4th page. Anyway, I think that is Google Sandbox effect and I have to wait for few months to get a better ranking.

[TheBrokenOne]

*sighs* got slammed at the end of June, and google has put the boot in again today....google reminds me of a moody teenager with a hormonal imbalance, you never what mood she's gonna be in from one day to the next.

[Dead_Elvis]

Your PageRank won't protect you on this one, nor will age of site... a whole lot of legit sites got hit on the 27th of June, then came back on July 27th, then tanked again today.

Some other sites never came back from June 27th at all, but then started getting good ranking again today.

Nothing makes much sense... we're just at Google's mercy, and from what Matt Cutts said today it looks like we can expect this roller coaster to continue changing every few weeks

[AnaB]

Originally Posted by TheBrokenOne

.google reminds me of a moody teenager with a hormonal imbalance, you never what mood she's gonna be in from one day to the next.

And that does sound right...google needs to grow up
I havent noticed anything on my So far. fingers crossed

[Christopher]

Originally Posted by Dead_Elvis

...and from what Matt Cutts said today it looks like we can expect this roller coaster to continue changing every few weeks

Can't find what you are referring too, what did he say and where? (not that I hang on his every word, but I will consider it... with some suspicion)

[Dead_Elvis]

It's in the comments of his blog, marked Aug 17th, 2:20 pm. Down towards the bottom of the page. (http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/frickin-cold/)

Someone asked him about today's massive fluctuations in the SERPs, and he wrote–

this is the same data refresh from June 27th and July 27th, just being refreshed again. We’ve been doing it for ~1.5 years at this point, and I’d continue to expect that we’ll just keep refreshing the data to that algorithm every several weeks or so.

Not at all reassuring...

[Christopher]

Yep, I had missed that.

Fricking wierd, I'd say. Acting like it's just the regular old routine when it's obviously messed up. Sites are popping in and out of the top serps like moles in a whack-a-mole game. Does google really not realize this? Or do they consider that normal? Or is it by design (it's a poor one if so).

[Ferrarislave]

I dropped down to positions in SERPs.

[Dead_Elvis]

Yep, I had missed that.

It was easy to miss, someone pointed it out to me earlier today.

Seems hard to believe that a bouncing index is what they are trying to achieve... how is it that feeding similar data into the same algo can cause such huge jumps (and subsequent dumps) in the space of just a few weeks?

Are we really going to just jump in and out of the SERPs every few weeks?

Yikes!

[alexisthemovie]

someone pointed out that i didn't rank for my name anymore, which i've held the top 10 positions for, for a long time.

i checked sitemaps and google visited my blog yesterday and cached rankings and i don't rank for a single one of them!

this was a huge surprise.

[an0n]

If you think you've got problems... take it from my perspective... My DEV pc got struck by lightning today. (this is the SECOND time in less than a month this has happened)

so f*ck google and its bullsh*t drama. My PC = my lifelife to my job.

[alexisthemovie]

wow i just checked some site stats and se traffic has disappeared in most cases.

[stringerbell]

Hmmm. My traffic has seemed to quadruple today (although my awstats won't update 'til tomorrow to find out where exactly it's coming from)....

[HaXan]

One of my PR7 came down to PR6

[infonote]

Hope Google sorts themselves out. They are risking a lot however, as people can easily change search engines.

I believe that due to competition they are updating more frequently to remain on top.

[men0dizer0]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=site%3Awww.mattcutts.com%2F&btnG=Search

www.mattcutts.com/blog/ - 36k - Supplemental Result
cached: 14 Aug 2005 21:25:46 GMT.

[joelbauca]

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:...n&lr=&filter=0
Results 1 - 10 of about 25 from www.mattcutts.com/blog

wow, even matt cutts blog was affected, i even have more index pages than his blog