Google Update!

[San Diego Real Estate]

Folks is it just me or is Google making some major changes? I have moved up and then back and then back up and now my BL's are way off! :confused: :confused: :confused:

[HMiller]

Google has been pissing alot of webmasters off during this update, including yours truly. My sites were dropped completely from the serps, then returned after a couple of weeks only to be intermittently dropped again for a couple of days at a time. Finally for the past 5 days or so it seems to have stabilized and overall I'm up about a hundred spots in the serps. However, my backlink count seems to have stayed put. It does appear that alot of others in these forums are experiencing a BL update, but I've seen nothing so far. It seems that when Google does these BL updates that you'll see varying numbers for a while then it will settle down. Try not to sweat it too much (I should take my own advice :rolleyes: ), Google requires alot of patience as I'm finding out.

[San Diego Real Estate]

HMiller...I think its like waiting on the pot to start boiling :confused:

[HHI Golf Guy]

Google's datacenters have not been in synch for a while. A few of the SERP's and BL's appear to be much older. You can check your info across the datacenters by going to www.mcdar.net and then clicking on the Datacenter Q-Check link.

[San Diego Real Estate]

HHI Golf Guy...Great tool to have in our tool chest!
Thanks! ;)

[Apply]

Google BLs are only a sample, using MSN or Yahoo should give you a better idea

[San Diego Real Estate]

Apply...Thanks for sharing...they are all over the map as well! :confused:

[Las Vegas Real Estate]

Can anybody tell me why the BL's are different in G, Yahoo and MSN? And how do you know which one is the most accurate?

[HHI Golf Guy]

Google has stated that they only show a sample of the total links that point to a site. As for Y and MSN, I couldn't tell you if they report 90%, 100%, or another percentage.

What I can tell you is that in the past few months (even before the official announcement of MSN search), the MSN bot has been very aggressive in spidering deep into a web site and continues to do so on a regular basis. These results seem to be updated in the MSN database in a relatively short amount of time.

If you have a new site, Yahoo does not crawl the site as deep or as frequently. The Yahoo/Inktomi bot will become more agressive once your site has aged 5 or 6 months. Even then, Yahoo does not update their database as frequently as MSN or G, so it may take longer to see any changes.

FWIW, one of the reasons that I reject a bunch of potential link partners is because of their poor internal linking structure, which in turn prevents bots from quickly finding my outbound link.

[JimFoster]

So I guess Google will be working on their code until the end of the year, so until then, they can't be trusted. :)