Hi, Does anyone have any idea when the ongoing Google update be over.. ? It has affected my sites too much. Some of them don't appear on Google for very competitive keywords. I wonder whats going on ? I hope its not over yet.
I saw all the DCs updated with the new PR when i checked on my sites. Maybe it's over. I am not sure.
Yes, I think the update is probably done, but who can know for sure? Funny thing was that two of my sites disappeared from the search results for two days, but then went back in better than before. Both wound up with a PR3 (from PR0 and less than 3 months old).
Google is great !! All confidential things...We can predict when it starts but not when it ends...Updates still going on !!
I still have sites where the PR is changing back and forth across the DCs, and several sites that don't even rank on the serp when you search for the domain name.
The PR wouldn't matter. Whether Google gives someone a 6 or a 2, they are going to be somewhere on some page. The important part is where you ended up on the page, not where the PR moved to. The PR may seem to correspond, but it's less than secondary, virtually useless. Because what a "5" or a "6" means to your site, can't be ascertained - its undefined, unresearchable and that number can't be controlled for weeks. On the other hand, where you end up on a page can be ascertained at any moment of the day. And that can change in less than a week. I've caused my site to rise up from #300 to #2 before for a keyword phrase, merely by changing a few words to plural with adding a "s". And it happened in 4 days. 4 days to hit the first page, and by weeks end to #2. And, ever since that change over 2 years ago, I've been in the top 5 position minimum. In that boost, the PR didn't change, couldn't change, and was irrelevant. Because it did not prevent me from raising my site in days. That's the benefit of getting spidered by Google up to 4 times per day during some weeks. The PR thing is like the Matrix, where SEOs are so plugged into it, and can't cut loose to get to the real world. Googles got them conditioned. Ever seen how a litter box is moved to get a cat to not pee in the living room, but in the laundry room? Its done by moving the litter box inches every day. The cats never notice, but they just keep following it. Now the sites are not litter boxes - the illustration just shows how Google started something and gets people to keep going to something without realizing what they are doing. That's why I'm posting about the PR thing so much lately, is that I finally figured out that it's irrelevant. The most important thing I ever kept track of, and the ONLY relevant thing, was where my site ended up on the page.
The update is finishing up in the next few days. For the most part, the Google Dance is over for this time around.