google is rolling back to before Feb. 2 SERP on most of datacenters. What a ride. For one of very competitive keyword, I was #10, went to #103 on Feb. 2. Now it's back to #1. Hope the rollback sticks. I know some of you like the post Feb. 2 SERPs.
I don't see the rollback. Every datacenter that McDar shows, shows me #1 for a search term for which I never ranked in past. Shannon
I don't think it's a rollback. You may be experiencing something similar to what I experienced. I was about #8 for my main KWs. I suddenly dropped to #444 before rising again to #3. All this happened in just a few days and it seemed to be part of the update process.
If it were a rollback, then wouldn't you be #10 not #1? I just checked about 10 datacenters for one keyword, the SERP position has stabilized for one particular site/keyword combo, but the allinanchor is fluctuating between three different positions. This is getting silly.
sorry. It wasn't a rollback. It's just part of updating process. Most keywords have been settled down. For my keywords, still too early to tell where it'll end up at. chachi, the big SERP move (from top 10 to 100) is likely a algo change or update. the small move (within top 20) is likely the result of on-going database update.
New: 64.233.171.99 New: 64.233.171.104 New: 64.233.171.105 New: 64.233.171.147 These four look like they are removing even more filtering...
Whatever they've done, I like it. They've put me at #1 for the last 3 days for my wedding magician site, for a lot of my search terms. Been bubbling around at #11 for a while now. Ian
I lost a total of 7 slots on 3 different keywords (1 to 2, 2 to 4, and 44 to 49). Overall, I'm still seeing a vast improvement in rankings from this update. (49 was unranked previously)
http://216.239.37.99/ isn't looking good... also http://216.239.53.104/ ... http://66.102.7.105/ ... and http://66.102.7.147/ Looks pretty much the same all across various keywords.
My research has shown that the latest update was done prematurely as a fix to their previous update. The last update left some severe caching holes and google was left returning VERY old cache data. In fact the cache date displayed for many sites - shown as Dec 31 1969. Even though google was spidering some of those sites daily. Evidence of some errors in that update. It seems we are all aware of the issues in this one... but I wanted to give some history on what's been going on to my knowledge.
My site has bounced back somewhat, but there is still a lot of red ink in the "weekly change" and "monthly change" departments. I mostly rely on content, without a lot of linkbacks. I was hoping that if the new algorithms depended on content more than linkbacks I would improve more than I did.