Google has not solved the subdomain issue
June 20, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · Comments Off
Although Google has manually nuked the billions of pages that Mr. Spammer got indexed, it has obviously not solved the problem algorithmically. Would you consider Craigslist to be a spammer? No, of course you wouldn’t. Yet the rankings show some very obvious problems that Google is having with subdomains (sub subdomains actually) by looking at certain search terms (here and here). For those two terms, Craigslist (using sub subdomains) gets 97 of the top 100 search results and 50 of the top 100 results.
Google is seriously f’d up
June 17, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · Comments Off
Have you had your site’s pages de-indexed? Hmmm…maybe it’s because a world-class spammer has filled Google with BILLIONS of bogus pages – and Google has been stupid enough to be duped into indexing all of them!
Can scraper sites hurt us now?
June 5, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · 4 Comments
About a year or so ago, there were some discussions regarding whether or not scrapers could be hurting legitimate sites’ rankings. One such thread is here and blog posts are here and here. Even the Washington Post got a word in. It seems as though the main consensus was that scrapers would not hurt you in the rankings, although different people had different opinions.
Something else to consider with Big Daddy index problems
May 31, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · 1 Comment
In a thread at SEORefugee, while discussing a site that is having the dropped pages problem, Michael (mvandemar) brought up a point that I think should be considered. He said in post #15:
Matt and Big Daddy
May 26, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · Comments Off
While I was gone, everyone was buzzing about Matt Cutt’s blog post, titled Indexing Timeline. I wanted to consolidate pieces of his post as well as his later comments in one place, so that those affected by the Big Daddy crawl/index issues wouldn’t have to wade through hundreds of comments to see everything. I have intentionally left some bits out that weren’t germaine to the issue, or were just repeats of things said elsewhere, or were obviously part of the original post, so they were easy to find. Feel free to go to the original post to see everything. So, here, in no rational order is my summary/compilation of Matt’s remarks.
Big Daddy rollout complete
March 25, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · 1 Comment
Google’s Big Daddy rollout appears to have propogated through to all of the datacenters. What does this mean? First, it means some stabilization, as there won’t be such massive differences across dc’s in SERPs. But, more importantly, it means future changes will probably come fast and furiously.
Mass of sites going supplemental
March 4, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · 5 Comments
In case you haven’t been noticing, the Big Daddy update is causing a lot of sites to have all of their pages, except the index page, go supplemental. There is a big thread over at WMW about it. If this problem is affecting you, before you panic too much, be sure to read DaveAtIFG’s response (msg #123). It may or may not be the actual truth, but it is logical and level-headed. An excerpt of his post: Read more
