i do see some chages in pr but after some time they were showing the old pr is it mare fluctuations or? i don't know.
I see some of the BigDaddy test SERPS filtering through to normal datacentres, including 66.102.7.104 Terms that I follow closely and have been ranked 15 to 20 with are now showing up in the top 10 on that DC.. as they have been on the BigDaddy DCs for a while now. The results jump in and out.. also on this one: 216.239.37.104 McDar dance tool might not show new results right away; reload a few times and they show. Regular G users are getting a taste of the new order.
Rather than start a new thread, I will just respond to this one. After having googlebots storm my site for almost 3 days straight, I am suddenly showing a drop from 12,500 pages indexed to 527. This is the lowest I have seen in a long,long, time. My forum has close to 34,000 posts, I have regular html pages, a news site (blog), and a directory for links. 527 pages in insane - I hope this is very temporary.
This hasn't been anything new, at least from what I have experienced anyway. G is definately getting alot tougher to get fully indexed in.
its new to me for the simple fact that the pages dropped to something lower than they have been for a long, long, time. ' Dropped to 511 now
Not new to me either I recently had a site go from 89,000 pages to 515. My Forum can go from 100 to 100k pages and back again, usually changes every quarter. Other sites I have are the same, the page count according to Googles api tool can vary between 100 and 100k.....it's been happening to my sites for over a year now. Its a similar story with backlinks. They can vary from 0 to 5k on Google while Yahoo and MSN report in excess of 100k links for most of my sites.
My forum has over 120K posts and dropped from 16K indexed pages to less than 1K on the Big Daddy datacenters
One has to ask why is G taking a dislike to forums? You would have thought G would love em, with forums always delivering fresh unique content...
If I had to make a guess it would be because of signature links. Seems Google doesn't like anything that creates URL links that can somehow be manipulated. Matt Cutts himself said they (Google) only want to see natural linkage from people that believe a site is worth linking to without any other kind of motive.
I hear ya, and feel they have already been weighing down forum links for some time now, to implement that doesn't have to mean not fully indexing sites though.
In the past Google has had a reputation of shooting first and asking questions later when it comes to things like this. Maybe they've changed, but I still remember the old "PR 0" days when a webmaster was guilty until proven innocent. They have changed that policy since then, but their whole system is based on good linkage and if something doesn't feel right to them, they may just throw the baby out with the bath water, if you know what I mean?
Is it because something doesn't feel right to them... or because their systems need improving on? I don't think good linkage is the problem here.
Good linkage isn't a problem. I just think they don't see URL links within a forum as good linkage, that's all. In the past it would have been very easy for them to just exclude links in things like 'guestbooks', but instead they just banned sites that had too many links from them. Sure it should be easy to just ignore those kinds of links, but in the past they have just banned sites who's links appeared there.
It's got nothing to do with Signature links, as I said my Forums pages have been yo-yoing around for over a year and take a look, a lot of the pages left still contain signature links. As for Mutt Cutts, hes full of it, too many people read way too much into what he writes.
So do I, the PR of some my sites is going up and down on a daily basis, I know it probably relates to different datacentres but a spread ranging from 3 to 5 or 4 to 6 has never happened before.