Choppy Google Update Continues
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Google has been doing a strange update for awhile now. This time most of my sites have been spared the emotional turmoil of sudden and unexpected death, but the one I call “the Afflicted One” has taken ill again, as usual. This has been a continous problem for over a year, and I’m pretty sure it’s something I’ll have to live with.
The reports are the same as always: muddled. It doesn’t appear that too many websites were hit this time, but the ones that have been all have a lot more pages in the supplemental than they used to.
To me it looks like we’ll see some sort of backlink/PageRank update that goes some of the way towards fixing these consistent issues with certain websites. If not, it will all become about “getting pages out of the supplemental” for people who get stuck there.
Personally, I continue to suspect flawed updates from Google, but I am more willing to double and triple check to see if I have anything wrong. According to Google’s own Sitemaps program, all the pages are indexed.
I expect this to get sorted out once and for all very soon.
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3 Responses to “Choppy Google Update Continues”
It looks like the re-ranking of PR is happening NOW; you can check your progress here:
http://livepr.raketforskning.com/
Normally, when they check all the data centers they all give the same #… but when they start giving different #’s for a given URL, that normally means a re-rank is underway.
By Omni on Jan 5, 2007
Our website was suffering in Google earlier this year, but after a lot of work, we managed to come back in September, just to find that the latest updates is messing things up for us again. Lots and lots of supplemental results suddenly, how frustrating.
By Robert on Jan 8, 2007
It’s like listening to a record skip
Not that anyone does that anymore.
By Darren McLaughlin on Jan 8, 2007