The last few days updates RE titles (title links) and descriptions that we're unusual have changed in my experience now so panic over peeps - well as far as I am concerned - admittedly it was a bit weird but Google is certifiable weird so what's new
Can anyone generalize about the types of links that they have lost? Are they 100-word, 500-word, articles, blogs, sidebar links, etc?
I have a funny feeling it is blog comments. I think google are trying to reduce the weight given to any blog comments. Since many people go spamming comments google have seen this and I think decided to take the weight off them. Therefore if your majority of link building is via blog comments then you will see a huge drop
There was definately a roll-back on saturday. My site was penalized on November 28th... on saturday, it all came back. Shortly after the super bowl, it went away again. Was good doing some super bowl testing since they knew traffic would be super low? marc
If you use www.comparecaffeine.com you will notice the 50% of the time it hits the caffeine results. You will also notice that new pages titles are being updated within 24hrs and as for the current/old google it's taking almost 7/14 days to show the new page titles in results.