Big daddy update

The doctor was concerned about how his kidneys were responding to the chemo. The good news is that this medication doesn't have the side effects that the other had.

When I spoke to him this morning he was upbeat and was eating breakfast. He'll have 2 treatments of radiation today and a visit with the Radiation Doctor this afternoon. As of right now he's scheduled to be done with all of his treatments by June 15th. But he has an appointment on the 24th that we are trying to get rescheduled. Hopefully he'll be home before the end of the month. Keep praying! Saturday, May 29, Memorial Weekend.

Sorry I haven't posted in a while. My folks are in Austin for the weekend, and things are going well. He looks good and is in good spirits. The chemo treatment was postponed due to a low white blood cell count.

The doctors, and my uncle, have assured us that this is nothing to be alarmed about. Some patients just need a little more time than others. So his treatment has been rescheduled for this Tuesday.

Which means this next week is going to be tough. He has his chemo on Tuesday and he will have 2 radiation treatments on Wednesday because of the holiday. We've loaded him up on vitamins, iron, and Activia so he won't have the issues he had last time. Keep praying. Monday, May 17, Week 3. We've started week 3. Could you spare 5 minutes at some point and post an update of progress on your blog? There seems to be a lot of questions here and on many forums, and not many answers!

I ws wondering how you run test on your indexing and positioning system? Maybe It would be a good Idea to run a seo contest using a word or 2 words that do not exist on any search engine. Track and follow the fresh new word or words, this I would believe give google an easy and clear way to see google true indexing and positioning system at work. Is that a side effect of bigdaddy, or display:none property turns a CSS paria of algo ranking? Seems about every 6 months seo newbie here my directory …which is my lifeblood — takes a google dive or jump.

It averages out over the course of a year, and before bigdaddy, it had been fairly steady, then took a nosedive in traffic. I just have one quick question: when can we expect that the roll-over to Big Daddy will be completed? You mentioned months in January … has this roll-over been successful? I noticed changes in my rankings. My site is completely spam free — been on google and all the other sites for years. Always ranked in the top 2 pages.

Is this what we can expect from Big Daddy? It seems there is more taking place than just a data center switch. In an earlier post you said that the Big Daddy project should be much less noticeable than an update but at the moment the effects seem to be devastating to many white hatters, slashing the amount of pages indexed. Can you give us any insight…hope.. I blame Big Daddy. I also blame iJobs though. On that site they have some of the same jobs, excact copies of the jobs on iJobs.

So I think the duplicate content filter has removed the iJobs url from the index. I was wondering if there could be a way to bring iJobs back into the index. Cause my first though was that they are forced to split the jobs. So unique content for both sites. Or is there another option? A Simple question, what do one should do to keep its complete data display whole pages indexed. And one more thing — an idea i am giving you.. Why dont google give a priority to those sites who has more returning visitor then more unique visitor.

Because if a site gains more returning visitor in comparison to the number of unique visitor within a geographic location it means the site is more popular and content of the site is more verified…as i think this is just a very good strategy to show a better indexing or improve the SERPs.

I have gone through your interview about bigdaddy, it helped me a lot but I also want to ask you some minor things.

If the age is a better factor then what steps should be taken to promote new sites, I heard that new sites have gone to Sandbox due to improper promotions. February 1, at pm. Thanks -David. Matt — Can you give us a little more insight into what Google is trying to achieve with BigDaddy?

On average, people will a little more indexing with BigDaddy. Clint Dixon. Hi Matt Indexed results seem to continually change, big daddy and hour ago had you top 3 now your blog is gone Odd Clint.

Matt, Thank you for the post regarding the progress. I have some grave concerns about Big Daddy that I simply do not understand. Sorry to come off like I am ranting, not intended at all, just my patience is beginning to show.

Thank You, Mike. Sascha Ebach. Matt, are the Bigdaddy results for US only or are the results that I am seeing for German search also what is to be expected in the future? Brian Despain. Amit JHalani. Kelly Jones. This is the best Google update so far, go live already! Spider Ninja. Good morning Matt Thanks for the BigDaddy weather report. Much appreciated. Has an algo update already taken place on BigDaddy DCs?

Hi Matt Any chance of some feedback on the feedback that you asked for sometime back? Joe Hunkins. Kevlar, PR updates are completely orthogonal. February 2, at am. Andrew Hitchcock. Looks good so far. Matt, I am seeing strange results when comparing those 3 datacenters. What data from each of the Datacenters is reliable? Cheers John. I had to remove it after three days, and revert to FDSE.

Please get these dead Supps from G. Before I opened the PSS account site:ourdomain returned a true pg count, with no supps. We fixed cannonical problems months ago, and the cache on the Supps was over a year old. They are ruining PSS. For some of the results I monitor here is what is what shows on top: — A plethora of scrapers — many subdomains for one single site take up a lot of the results.

Thanks for reading Matt. Brian M. Hi Matt, the BG daddy index is still incomplete. Maybe you can shed some light on this. Ben Pate. Matt- Why does BigDaddy only display 2 results when I use the site:www. Adam Senour. This really depends on the situation. Hey Matt, i recently did a query on google. The ones that are doing major spam though, always seem to get removed. Perhaps google has a tolerance with hidden keywords when the page is actually relevant? If this is the case any idea when the update will reach other areas and will be complete?

Cheers Chris. February 2, at pm. It is corrected now but I thought this was quite strange. Alden Bates. Jeff Phillips. Wayne — Did you see this at the bottom of the results? Michael Martinez. What a Maroon.

Its all in the eyes of the beholder. Lot easier getting links with a higher PR than a lower PR. Part of Google strategy to protect its Adsense Product to reduce irrelevant search terms. Home Tuition. Hi i have been seeing some strange results for my ite in some of the datacenter, where inner page has Much more high PR then home page. February 3, at am. Is metarefresh ok? Hello everybody! First of all excuse my english. Does this happen in all the languages? AHFX — You probably should avoid s altogether and use s.

Perhaps the confusion was just temporary…. February 3, at pm. The Kid. This appears to mean one of two things: 1. BigDaddy is using old data. BigDaddy has new bugs in handling. Neither of these are good options. Alan R. I wonder if all of Matts blog readers are actually undeclared Google Beta Testers. So far it looks like I am going to like Big Daddy. Thanks for the update and for your humor. Hi Matt I guess this is probably the wrong place to be asking the question, but here goes: How does Google treat and rank accessibility in websites?

I would love to see a post on it cheers. John Garner. Thank you. Amit Verma. This is Bigdaddy Progress Update. I love to see what happen next with now new datacenters. February 4, at am. Is this correct? Thanks for the information. Best wishes SSSSid. Hi Matt, How come sites using linking schemes rank so well on big daddy? February 4, at pm. John Tourloukis. February 5, at am. Hi Matt, How Big Daddy handles duplicate content?

February 5, at pm. February 6, at am. Hi Matt, I have gone through your interview bout bigdaddy, it has all the major points, but I still want some suggestions from u.

One thing more will it be a PR update also. Pls give suggestions. Jack Bradley. BD DCs showing more relevant results. Thanks a lot. February 6, at pm. I noticed others saying the same thing and any info on this would be great.

Thanks, Joe. Todd Martini. Stefano Loberti. February 7, at am. John Colascione. February 7, at pm. February 8, at am. Richard Walker. February 9, at pm.

February 10, at pm. February 12, at pm. February 15, at am. Matt, whatis the bigdadday? What the butt? February 19, at pm.

Andrew Dixon. February 21, at am. As the update spread across the datacenters, people started to notice that many pages from their sites had disappeared from the regular index. Matt Cutts, a senior software engineer at Google, put it down to. That statement pretty much sums up the way that the Big Daddy update affects websites. Matt then went on to give a few examples of sites that had been hit, and what he thought might be their problems….

A few more relevant links would help us know to crawl more pages from your site. Not only does it evaluate the trustability of the links, but it takes account of the quantity of trustable links. Since Google came on the scene with their links-based rankings system, people have increasingly arranged links solely for ranking purposes. For instance, link exchange schemes are all over the Web, and link exchange requests plague our email inboxes.

They are evaluating the trustability of both inbound and outbound links to try and prevent unnatural links from benefiting websites. The most obvious places to get them are directories. Other directories are well worth submitting to, and a good sized list of decent ones can be found at VileSilencer. But it is ludicrous that we have now the situation where Google first destroyed the natural linking of the Web, and then turned around to suggest ways of unnaturally getting natural links, just so that a website can be treated fairly by them.

Some of the unnatural ways that Google suggests are, writing articles that people will link to, writing a blog that people will link to, and creating a buzz.