Some people are giving some good information in this post, However of all these pages in this post it seem's like alot are nonsense. Does anyone agree? Why are so many getting away from the real issue? Hopefully we will start seeing Jagger 3 changes flowing in tommorrow and hopefully they are to most peoples benefit.
Since the 2nd phase of jagger I get a huge trafic from googlebot, do you all experience the same thing ? I'm talking here about 6 - 7 Gb in just one week or so ... At this thread I have some statistics .. can somebody give me some answers .. PLS http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=404820#post404820
Here's some anecdotal observations from jagger1 and jagger2 DCs results. Most of my referral traffic was coming from complex geo-based searches i.e. "old blue boat for sale in sopchoppy florida " I've noticed that in most cases that I've looked at the top 20 positions are 90% occupied by sites that use either: 1. www.city.domain.com/content-category/content-page.htm 2. www.domain.com/city/content-category/content-page.htm Gone are the sites that use: 1. www.domain.com/contentpage.htm 2. www.domain.com/cityname-contentpage.htm The sites that now dominate the top positions are mostly large, national or international sites that have millions of indexed pages and in many cases are not relevant to the search term. The small sites I used to see are all gone - as in not in the top 300 .
Now I know that the update is far from over but realistically speaking do we really see the SERPS changing radically from what they are now? I'm beginning to worry a bit because the difference between Jagger1 and Jagger2 was not that significant. Jagger3 promises to tackle supplementals and canonical url problems so what left for the SERPS flux? Could be a rough Xmas.
Every few days I'm seeing another keyword or keyphrase come back from the dead and back into the top 50... so there is still hope. ** cough data loss cough who knew mcdar was right cough cough **
You said what I have been fearful of. After the terrible effects of "Phase 1", I have had very few changes, good or bad. I could not see any differences when Phase 2 hit. Although we had well placed search terms on Google, all that seems to have disappeared and it does not look Phase 3 will bring them back. Sad, but looks like only time, will bring Google back to its senses
yeah I realy doubt anyones sites are coming back but they may start to come bak after christmas is over
Does anyone buy into the theory that Google have loosened up some filters so that the crap spam can rise to the top and subsequently be reported by loyal Googleers through the spam report page? I've heard this, it's not my personal opinion. Would be great if it were true though i.e. a lot of results will eventually switch back to how they were minus a lot of the spam crap.
i am SO liking what i see a main keyword just went from position 145 to 30 today - and everything else is slowly climbing up the rankings.
No. To buy into that, I'd also have to buy into the theory that having made some money by going public, Google is now intent on rendering their company and thus their stock value worthless. I am refusing to allow myself to get excited one way or another about any changes I see, good or bad, until the dust settles after phase 3. In fact, as much as possible I'm resisting even checking the Keyword Tracking Tool since the update first started.
@minstrel: Ottawa. Hmmm... do you know any DalTech (Dalhousie Univ.) CS geeks? A lot of my friends went that way (2000 Grads). Off-topic - sorry.
Not that I know of, Joe... but anything's possible. Maybe some of them are my clients by now (since the bottom fell out of high tech )...
Is this it, or will there be a Jagger4? I am really liking what I am seeing right now and hope this is the final version of the serps
im reading 3 stages everywhere. i havent seen "3" or even "2" on many datacenters, so I think everything is still in major flux.