Dancing Commencing?

[jadenusa]

The PR on the first page of my site just greyed out, I think the dance is beginning to some extent. This happened last time and only lasted a few days. When the PR came back, the site was fully re-indexed and the PR was higher. Anyone else experience this type of behavior?

:cheers: 8)

[Bernard]

I'm seeing quite a bit of movement in some of the SERPs that I watch right now.

[jadenusa]

Very encouraging...it's been long enough!

[polarmate]

Yep, backward links are being updated. The last time this occured for my sites was on 08/29. Still less than a month ;)

[LeeHarveyIdiot]

You're all so right!

I just checked. I never had any "similar" pages. Now I have 31. I only had 1 backward link. Now 19. Sweet. Very Sweet. And my pagerank did disappear but you're all saying that will change so that's cool.

My page did not go up yet in the google search results. Will that happen soon?

This is very exciting. I hope they don't revert back to an old cache and all the progress will be erased.

[vinyl-junkie]

For about the last 2 or 3 days, my page rank has been going between 4 and 5. Before I moved my site, it was always sitting at 5; after the move, it stayed at 4 - until now. Maybe it'll settle on 5. I hope. :)

[jadenusa]

My bar is back, but I my backwards links are at 77 instead of 900+. I guess it takes a while to churn through 3 billion web pages looking for links. In the end I hope to pick up over 1k, but we'll see.

[RoySpencer]

yup..all my deep pages had been cached from 8/30, this morning they've finally updated.

[dragonlady7]

And here I believed them that there'd be no more dances!
Well, these seem like tolerable ones, anyway. :D

[Danny]

I've just put on my red shoes to dance the Google blues...
but where is the party going on ?
GG did not give me an invitation :D

[steviesullivan]

My site has disappeared and returned to Google 4 times in last six days. At the moment it is gone again. Is this the dance or is my site having some problems with Google? Has anyone else ever experienced this type of thing?

[Danny]

Hi Stevie,

I see the same thing with nearly every rather new site (about less than 3 months old).
I'm not sure if it's due to the dance (if we can still talk about a dance at all).
Since April, GG started to have problems and according to me, they didn't solve them yet !

Is your site rather new ? If so, then give it at least a month or 2 to have it settled in the index.

[steviesullivan]

Dear Danny
Thanks for your reply. Yes you are correct my site is only six weeks old. Being a newbie at having a website I had been worried that I had done something wrong and been penalised or something but your reply and spot on assessment as to my site's "newness"gives me some heart. Thanks again.

[Bernard]

Hi Stevie, welcome to the forums! :hi:

I'm still seeing some large fluctuations across the datacenters. I don't think this "dance" has settled just yet.

[steviesullivan]

Thanks for the welcome Bernard. I just am at a loss to understand, an hour ago I wasn't listed 15 minutes ago I was now I'm not again. Is it that when I connect to google I am being handled by a different server with perhaps different info? I seem to reappear about this time each of the last several days and stay on for an hour or two.

[Bernard]

Try checking your search term on the google dance tool (http://googledance.seochat.com/) to see where you stand on all 10 datacenters. Chances are that you are ranking on some, but not all of them. www.google.com pulls results from (or points to) one of the datacenters at any given time.

[steviesullivan]

I used the Google Dance Tool as suggested and I am listed on 2 and 3 but not 1.

[Bernard]

Adjust the setting from WWW, WWW2, WWW3 to all 10 datacenters and try again.

[steviesullivan]

Five have my site listed and five do not. What does it all mean? LOL

[Bernard]

Chances are good that your site will appear in the listings on the other five datacenters within the next couple of days.

[mcdar]

Hello All,

I have been working on an older, established site that is a PR5. It gets crawled daily. But not every page gets crawled every day. The pages that I have optimized place very well in the serp - WHEN they were crawled the previous day. IF they were skipped yesterday, they revert back to their old placement because Google is looking at the older cached version for the results.

This has been going on for two weeks now. One page I have optimized jumps from page 1 in the results to page six, depending on whether or not it was crawled the previous day.

If it was crawled yesterday, then I place very well in the results and it shows a "freshness date" of yesterday. If the page was not crawled yesterday, it falls back to page 6 in the results and if I look at the cached page, it is the old version.

The changes I have made are not "sticking" in Googles index.

This fluctuation is also reflected in the 10 datacenters.

The results Google is showing on a daily bases is a combination of yesterdays crawl (fresh) and OLDER (more than 2 weeks)cached versions of pages.

I am not seeing anything that indicates to me that Google is re-indexing, or updating it's current index.

Has anyone else noticed this sort of thing?

[ihelpyou]

Hi mcdar, Google is still in flux.

[mcdar]

Hi Doug,

What, exactly, does that mean?

Thanks,
mcdar

[ihelpyou]

Changing. No way to know where, how, what, or why right now. I just don't have a good answer. Sites go up and down and around and out and in all the time at the moment. :)

[mcdar]

Thanks for the honest reply, Doug.

Many have come to believe that Google "Dances" daily. Although there are daily fluctuations due to crawls, the real index is not being updated on any regular bases.

I hope Google can resolve this sometime soon.

Thanks again!

[leadbetter]

I wish google would just come out and tell us what they are doing in regards to a monthly update. (I guess that's not going to happen)

I don't think there will be monthly updates anymore like we used to see. Many agree they have moved to a "rolling" or continuous update.