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Originally Posted by jestep
Google hasn't been indexing pages nearly as fast as before:
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I have observed the same so i can also confirm this. There is quite a difference between the harvesting pace in the past and now. I must however observe that I have noticed significant decrease since mid December - It just went much slower right now.
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Originally Posted by jestep
I would normally say that it takes 2 - 3 days to get a new page indexed, but now I have been waiting over 9 days and still nothing. This is consistent for about 12 sites that I have added pages two. Most are also on different servers.
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I had pages that got in the index in 5-6 days. But previously they used to get in there within 24 hours or so.
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Originally Posted by jestep
Google also isn't giving weight to new links 'at all':
While before I could expect a change within a few days of acquiring new links into a page, now the SERPS remain steady regardless of the number of links of quality that are linked into a page.
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This is most interesting - could it turn into a 'link age' based new sandbox-alike behavior?
Btw - on a couple of our sites that are big (like 10,000 pages, most comprised of forums, message boards anouncements, directory, stuff like that) the traffic from Google is suddenly down to 50% . I have also noticed a massive reduction in number of pages indexed from these sites (backlinks are ok though) like 4-5 times less pages (!) but the ones remaining are getting more traffic, however not enhough to cover the difference.
Big changes, looks to me.