Google’s Big Daddy Cleaning House

April 25th, 2006 by Loren Baker, Editor | 3 Comments

Google’s Big Daddy Cleaning House

The Google Big Daddy update has been underway for a bit now and I’ve noticed a thread on Digital Point Forums about a large amount of sites being cleansed from the Google Big Daddy index.

The thread is about 10 days old, but is stil fairly active with accounts of thousands of pages being omitted. Some forum members are thinking that reasons for the dropping are DMOZ clones, duplicate content, and usage of the Digital Point Coop Network.

From the threads:

yep I lost a lot of coop weight as well. I hope Google returns to normal. I wish I really knew what was going on. I think this Big Daddy update is buggy then heck IMO.

1 site of mine lost over 50% and is still dropping after a little recovery of like 5 pages only. The PR maintains which I think would have dropped in case of some penalty. Back Link count also is stable. I have seen similar drops for a small forum as well. Index cleaning could be a possibility.

“I noticed DigitalPoint forums dropped as well. So maybe this is a cleaning period.”

I went from 30k to 200. I wonder how this effects [Digital Point’s] co-op [Link Advertising Network]? Surely my weight has to go down.

Comments

3 responses so far ↓

David Saunders on Apr 25, 2006 at 5:23 am

Oh how I wish G would seek and destroy all those terrible Real Estate Agent website with misleading crap on their sites.

I work with a lot of quality Real Estate pros that are squeaky clean, have info packed, locally relevant sites that are, at times, floundering below the bot spammers…

David
Quan on May 1, 2006 at 12:40 pm

More and more pages are being “cleansed” every day, from more and more websites. This is nothing to do with DMOZ, nothing to do with duplicate content, and nothing to do with the Coop Network. It’s a bug plain and simple.

With big daddy came a new index “pruning” mechanism. From all of the evidence I’ve seen it looks like this pruning mechanism is spiraling out of control gradually deleting any pages that aren’t pinned down. I’m not sure, but it looks to me like any page not directly linked to by a PR5 or higher page is being deleted from the index.