BL is starting (some are reporting changes anyway) ... you'll have to wait a while for a visual PR update.
I havent seen any movement yet on any of our real estate sites, however there has been a lot of flux going on over the last several days. If we are in for a major update I fear that this will also impliment a addition to an algo that will made the Florida update look like a walk in the park. Google is continuing to shoot themselves in the foot. The only sites IMHO that are safe right now are sites that have a lot of age with them and havent used any risky type seo.
I know google has been very chaotic the past few days with SERPs and the keyword tracker. Sites disappear then come back the next day. Tons and tons of movement up and down for me. Something has to be up.
I think that's more of a fear. I wouldn't expect a huge algo update, just the implementation of those damn "nofollow" tags. However, in theory, the index could drastically change because of those damn "nofollow" tags. I don't know any sites using them yet, but we may be surprised.
BL update pretty soon, perhaps in the next few days (even tomorrow, pretty soon) Real PR update in two weeks (mid-Feb) Toolbar PR update in 2 months (end of March)
When would one expect to see the results from a BL update? Lets say I've gone from 150 links to 800 my site is NOT sandboxed.... Would I expect to see benefits in serps now, in a few days or at the pr update...?
I think you are given credit for IBL's with in a few days of google picking them up. The visual update you are seeing is useless in every sence of the word. Visual PR updates don't have much meaning in the SERP's as well (unless your selling your PR), The PR is updated internally long before you ever see it.
Well, so far so good!! I was off by a week on the real PR update. Google jumped the gun on that one! Tollbar update prediction adjusted to mid-March now!
There's tracking list for Google updates here: http://www.seocompany.ca/pagerank/page-rank-update-list.html You can see how often backlink, pr, and other updates happen.
My BL stats changed 3 times in february already and the weird thing is my German version with way fewer backlinks is ranked a lot better than the English version of my site with 4 times as many BLs.