Google Updates – Check Your Sites!

**Ste** · 02-01-06

Following on from another thread, Google has made some big adjustments in its search results. Checking my sites this morning for its usual search terms has seen a lot of competitor sites removed.

**Darren M** · 02-01-06

Nearly all my sites have taken a hit and I was doing quite well with natural search towards the end of the year. Is this Google's way of telling us to spend more on PPC?

**stevey** · 02-01-06

One of my new sites was showing but now is not. It's the magic of Google!

Certainly disheartening when starting new projects but stuff Google! It should be showing to be honest cos there's basically zero competition for my keywords. That's the problem with Google nowadays and some other engines they aren't reliable anymore.

Time to think outside the sandbox

**bazza1603** · 02-01-06

Get in....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

**pricethat** · 03-01-06

Our site got hit, all the pages pretty much removed from the index. But i would add a comment, it doesnt actually seemed to of changed anything in terms of the amount of traffic we are getting from them. Sure i never knew what we did and didnt rank for because i never bothered to look but we still had over 1000 people from google alone yesterday and it looks like traffic levels are normal this morning.

**ChrisEvans** · 03-01-06

Just as I got into the first pages for various keywords - I'm totally out again.

**thetafferboy** · 04-01-06

there's no point in flapping around checking your sites. the google updates take days, normally a week or two before they settle. it doesnt just go "here are the new rankings". you have have noticed some change, but wait until it's processed the rest of the net before you start throwing yourselves off cliffs.

**sgpratley** · 04-01-06

Does anyone know how to get a reliable stat on the number of pages of my site google actually has in its index?

If I search on site:www.ipoints.co.uk I get about 600.

If I search on site:www.ipoints.co.uk/item where most of our product feed data is, I get about 10 times more,

Neither is the truth as I can find pages that aren't shown in either when I search for the URL.

All the web seems to show up a lot more, but they're not driving me traffic!

**thetafferboy** · 05-01-06

have you tried typing this into google search:

site:www.myurl.com/

**monk-i** · 05-01-06

That doesnt give a true indication as G doesnt show you them all which is a pain.

Ive noticed that some of my newer projects have had PR's added to them now. Something is going on then

**sgpratley** · 05-01-06

The site:www.myurl.com/ is what I'm on about

it shows more pages if I'm specific about folders than just the domain name on its own, so something is being hidden.

Short of running a query on every specific URL and seeing if it returns a result, I'm not sure how to get the real picture.

I'll try ploughing my way through the logfiles for the spider activity and see if that sheds any more light......