Google acknowledges problems with site: query

Google finally admits to screw-up: http://www.platinax.co.uk/news/19-06-2006/google-admits-bad-data-push-error/

 

Pity that wasn't one of my sites ....thats probably where all our pages have gone.

That article also shows that Matt Cutts is full of shit (as I have been saying for months now)....must have been very embarrassing for him.

 

Cyclops, I would have agreed with you about 3 weeks ago, but now I can't. Matt Cutts can't be full of shit because all that Tequilla he's drank on his holiday has surely cleaned out his bowels

 

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=97090
Is the source of the revelations!! That's sad when a wacko has to make it for Google to admit something!!!

 

Damn, I missed that thread Nintendo. Well spotted my wacko mate .

 

No wonder you can wear the crown. Sure miss that one.

 

I made that thread, which of course exploded. Then some one else made a blog article about it and submited it to digg.com since DP threads can't be submited.

http://digg.com/technology/How_One_Spammer_Got_BILLIONS_of_Pages_into_Google_in_3_Weeks

That made the index page. (Has 1,433 diggs right now!) Then a few other news sites picked it up and then it made ThreadWatch where Google finally replied!!

http://www.threadwatch.org/node/6999

Now all the black hat fans want to tar and feather me!!

 

That doesn't mean that it actually helped us with anything. He just replied.

http://baddatapush.com/

You're crazy Ninno.

You actually bought a domain for that dude.

 

No, he paid for the site. It was just such a crazy domain idea that I linked to it there since I didn't link to any other blog. This way I'll easily find it while this chaos is going on!!!

 

cool..so many dig.. most of my highest dig only 2 digit

 

Fantastic Nintendo!

I am also seeing where the google employee is back-tracking on his "bad data push" on threadwatch, no?

 

Note this part of the Platinax article:

Cutts true function: Public Relations and Pirate Regalia.

Maybe that's why he's been too embarrassed to post anything on his blog of late...

 

Whaaa ?

 

I don't know if it'll help this get fixed, but Adam Lasnik contacted me at threadwatch.org about this site: stuff... Here's his message and my reply.

 

Aarrrgh....that's not a good sign, a Google employee needs the problem we are all experiencing explaining to him. Does anyone at Google actually know they have a problem???

For me the date this first happened was 8th March and each site bar 1 so far getting hit along the way since then.

The only solice for me on all this is that they've now gone through this for over 3 months and they are now a public company.

My Adsense income is down a good 50% because of all this and I can only assume 2 things from this.

1. either the 50% that is lost is now being earned by someone else, or
2. Google have also lost their share of my lost 50%.

If it's the latter and combined with everyone else having the same problem then it will show in the quarterly earnings/predictions, in which case I would assume Google will have to admit to a serious problem and shareholders will give them the proverbial kick up the back side to fix it.

John

 

Here's his reply. Golly, that was fast!!!

 

See if he can expand upon the "Indexing Concerns" comment. WTF does that really mean?

Does it mean "We realize we are deindexing valuable content and we are trying to fix our mistakes." ?

 

It means we have no idea what is going on - Sometimes-inaccurate site: count/listings. Whats with the "sometimes" it's happening to every person who has a website and knows how to check this stuff.

The sad thing is that 95% of website owners don't have a clue as to how many pages they have indexed or where their keywords rank or even how to find out. And thats not an exageration...ask any webdesigner about what their clients know about SEO etc and they will say zilch, this applies to large companies as well as mums and dads.

 

Here is something I find kinda interesting. WHen I search my site on different data centers on a few I get 323 pages listed, but on most it's over 1,000 but all but 323 are supplemental. That's not the interesting part. Different data centers show different results, but that's not the interesting part. The interesting part is the results are 1200, 1180, 1160, 1170 etc. Every result is a multiple of 10. Seems interesting to me and could be a coincidence, wonder what the odds of that happening are?

 

I´m not a big time SEO like you guys, but I have noticed that in the last 3 days Google has been spitting out messed up results, really messed up. My competition on one search had the same URL come up on 3 pages, one page after the other, exacting the same description and url, I´ve never seen that before.

The results for me myself are going up and down everytime I look and on different data center IPs I don´t even come up?

So here to Google - kiss it because I´m feed up with chasing you, not that I try to trick search engines. I feel that SEO for me is time and effort, all of my work is natural and I pride my work. Now (for a long time now) I have given up on the over rated and under producing search engine that Google is, my websites are my income and I still in 2 to 3 years haven´t made a sell through Google. The other big two MSN and Yahoo come up trumps everytime, so it´s time to forget about Google and concentrate on the REAL BIG search engines.