Google's plans for the next weeks

**News** · 01-24-2007, 06:56 PM

Google's Matt Cutts is the premier source for all things related to Google and search engine optimization. He works for the quality group of Google, specializing in search engine optimization issues.

Matt Cutts has just revealed Google's latest ranking plans for 2007 in his blog.

How you might be affected by Google's plans for the next weeks:

It is likely that you will see more variance in your Google rankings because Google's internal databases are going to be updated every 1-2 days instead of every 3-4 weeks.
Google usually reveals PageRank updates quarterly to the public. A new PageRank update is underway. However, this does not mean that your Google rankings will change because the new PageRank values are already incorporated into their ranking algorithms.
Google's supplemental results should be nothing to be afraid of. If your site shows up in the supplemental results, then don't worry. According to Matt Cutts, the PageRank of a web page determines if the page appears in the regular or supplemental results.
The supplemental results continue to get fresher, "and website owners may see more traffic from their supplemental results pages."
Google plans to change the "filetype:" operator so that it doesn't require an additional query word.
Google discovered a small anomaly with .com domains that are hosted outside the US. A fix has been submitted so the rankings of the affected sites might change.
There will be no "major infrastructure-related" ranking updates in the near future.

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Meritis · 02-02-2007, 08:08 PM

About time Google got a tuneup.

It took 6 months to index my site.

**Brandon Sheley** · 02-02-2007, 08:26 PM

really ? This site was indexed in less then one week.
Actually, I can get all of my sites indexed in one week or less

All it takes is one good back links

**eric** · 02-02-2007, 11:57 PM

My latest project is still not indexed, though msn, yahoo and many others have... sitemap is working and accepted but no way,
no special warning neither in google tools but ... nothing
No clue why and the site has already several nice backlinks from known websites with PR 6...

**Brandon Sheley** · 02-03-2007, 08:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by eric

My latest project is still not indexed, though msn, yahoo and many others have... sitemap is working and accepted but no way,
no special warning neither in google tools but ... nothing
No clue why and the site has already several nice backlinks from known websites with PR 6...

thats odd, I see 1,000 backlinks for your site and your right, nothing in google.

**eric** · 02-03-2007, 11:02 AM

weird weird google but I think they are or having problems r changing things, in the webmaster tools index details are unavailable.. guess maintenance to implement the new changes or already a few overloaded servers .... well a few on 180,000 servers won't change much I guess lol

**PoliticsGuy** · 02-03-2007, 04:37 PM

Does this mean that sites are going to get out of the "sandbox" faster, or no? :p

**Brandon Sheley** · 02-03-2007, 05:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PoliticsGuy

Does this mean that sites are going to get out of the "sandbox" faster, or no? :p

not sure about that one.

I did hear some news about google today..

You know how 9 different options for referral programs with google.. and there is no limit to the amount of referral buttons that are shown.

Not that I ever make much from the referral programs but some may.

**PoliticsGuy** · 02-03-2007, 05:59 PM

I don't mean referral programs. I mean like how a new site goes into a blackhole until the quarterly PR update. I guess that's going to persist, eh?

**Brandon Sheley** · 02-03-2007, 06:06 PM

ya I know what you mean by sandbox.

I was just talking about other google news :p