I thought Google stopped dancing but if you follow multiple threads at webmasterworld, everyone is bitching about Google SERPS. A dozen or so high-quality websites that I manage are seeing massive flux in traffic. In other words, for those of us who have been around to remember the Google dances, I see all the attributes of a Google Dance - results varying from one moment (data center) to another, massive traffic fluctuations, and sometimes results that simply make no sense. I remember that something similar happened during Jagger update too. So are you guys seeing the same? Is it time to call it a "dance?"
I don't have a clue what Google might be doing. But I can confirm in the past 24 hours seeing some wide swings in SERPs — substantially beyond the normal, daily fluctuations we all see. Unfortunately, most of those swings are to the down side
During the last couple of days I am noticing two more things: 1. For any search query for which there is a product available, more results from sites like amazon, bizrate, ebay, etc. 2. I am also seeing that Google is now showing much longer URLs with multiple variables. It seems that Google is now indexing results from databases. Anyone else seeing this?
Yes I have noticed today that some of my database driven pages which have never been indexed before are now in the index on some DC's. Maybe this was one if the upgrades related to BIG daddy.
Amazing....I'm seeing the same stuff. Came here to see if anyone else was and this thread is at the top. I'm seeing Amazon pages moving up everywhere and some wild swings in SERPs the past 48 hours.... rbfallon
Prob because Google appears to now to be able to index URL strings it never used to be able to hence amazon etc. They will add some filters to make sure massive sites like Amazon dont swamp results.........
Let's hope that's what they do. Because if they don't, small and medium sized sites will dissapear from the serps.
For the few phrases I follow, I'm seeing fewer .edu sites on page one and very few Page 1 sites with a second (indented) page. /tom/
I just hope like hell that whatever is happening, I dont get smacked into a hole like jagger did to me.
I've noticed some larger than normal drops in google's serps for some of my sites and a few big jumps; seems like some kind of dance...
Google has been indexing my databases for quite some time. I have a database with 2000 user inputted records and Google will index everyone of them. My database string is pretty simple...ID=1, ID=2...and so it is easy for Google to figure out the format.
my website which was banned now get pr 2. but i dont see anything indexed when i typed site:mysite.com , does this mean im still banned ? but i got pr 2? weird link:mysite.com got 5 links. anyone knows ?
I still have two recently new sites remaining that have every page indexed at PR4 except the home page (1 site at PR2 and the other site at PR1). Man, I wish Google would do something about this. On the other hand, I have another new site which I did little SEO to it and all 170 pages got indexed at PR4 three weeks ago and still remain to be so! Go figure!!
Yes... I think that my softgroups.com is into sandbox efect, and a few days ago something happened: I appered on #1 on google.ca ; google.co.uk for free php scripts (but i was still nowhere when searching on google.com) ... after a few hours i disapered from all google.XX SERPS again....
google is dumping spaces.msn.com sites and piggy backers from the SERPs I compete in. my msn.spaces.com/webcamszoom11 site won zoom11 seo contest checkpoint yesterday today it disapered I haven't changed anything on it in over a week
I am seeing university piggy backers getting drop out of the serps I watch ie universitynews.com/piggybacker/keyword.html Just ask these guys how their doing http://www.advertiseu.com/ all their Uni piggyback affilate sites are getting droped
With the massive changes in search results, it appears that there is general agreement that this is indeed an update (or dance or "glitch" or whatever name you fancy) - to me it seems that there is a minor algo tweak with more importance to page title rather than anchor text. The folks at webmasterworld are now arguing over its name. But my research shows that as of now we are nowhere close to being done. The results are still all over the place, some blogs/websites cannot be found, and traffic is up/down for almost everybody. Hopefully the weekend will be enough time to settle down.