Big Daddy rollout end in sight

Looks like we've got a date for the end of the Big Daddy rollout...

Source: David Utter's write up of the Duplicate Content session at SES2006 in New York. http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/topnews/wpn-60-20060228DuplicateContentJeopardizesYourSite.html

NG

 

Yeah he is right, hope that quote will clear the minds out of the one who dont know why ODP, Yahoo, Google refused to index their websites

 

apologies for my ignorance on this but is BD in away related to the PR update that so many are talking about on the other threads ?

 

So far so good...

 

No, Big Daddy has been described as mostly an infrastructure upgrade. It has nothing to do with the current PR update.

/*tom*/

 

BigDaddy was a big enough change as to completely smash my expectations of this update...
It might be blind hope, but perhaps once it is all done, there will be yet another PR/BL/GD rollout.

 

There has been a slow steady decline in rankings for the last several weeks and it looks like they just covered up the grave.

This is page 1 of three.

 

Ow , that really hurts. Sorry to see that :/

 

Do you know what has caused this?

/*tom*/

 

That looks exactly like mine when the jagger update hit!

(So I know how it feels!)

 

Tom,

Actaully I think I know the cause and I've been trying to correct it for 8 months. BD is supposed to address most of these but I guess my time ran out.

Jagger hit me pretty hard but I was about 50% back to pre-jagger traffic before this week.

Here's what I suspect is going on:

1. canonical url problems - I've fed Gbot/2.1 over 5 million 301s in the last 6 months.
2. Duplicate content - Over 1,500 scraper sites using my internal URL structure - for example: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:66.184.207.25&start=0&ie=utf
3. Self induced duplicate pages (I switched from parameter to fixed urls in Feb. of last year) - I've been using the disallow variables in robots.txt but G keeps crawling the old pages.
4. Pages with not much text such as "Reply to ad" , "forward to friend" etc. all look the same.


But. . . . I think I'm going to take the Napster approach and blame this all on Microsft It's got to be their fault right?

 

I have been slipping away over the BigDaddy changes. I came out okay over jagger, and this recent PR/BL rollout did not impact my site much, I lost 2 backlinks.

But I see ALOT of spam... cloaked sites, redirects, and junk MFA sites ranking well.

BigDaddy was too heavy. The chair we all have been sitting in is broken.

Edit (after classified's post):
You can do a url removal... http://www.google.com/webmasters/remove.html

 

I have seen this too, even with *no follow sites. I have had to manually request a disallow even when the robots.txt was properly in place.