Comments on: Bigdaddy on the move

By: Online Shopping Centre

Online Shopping Centre — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:58:49 +0000

I couldnt load 66.249.93.104, is it something to do with my network connection or has the IP now changed?

By: Erik

Erik — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 20:42:28 +0000

Hey Matt,
I have a discovered some confusing searches. Now, forgive me if this was posted elsewhere as I’m kinda new to posting in forumns. I’ve had some questions/issues with having pages dropped. I had started using Sitemaps and noticed 1 day we had an SSL issue. I had some 401/407 errors. The issue was resolved that day but then noticed shortly thereafter that we lost around 22 pages that had previously been ranked/listed well. i.e. Those pages listed with the 401/407 error.

1 of the pages that we had been dropped for suddenly appeared (1 month later) in a natural Google search today. Great! In trying to research our site status on Google I stumbled upon a post about “Big Daddy” and it’s testing IP addresses when it was still being tested. http://64.233.179.104 and http://66.249.93.104. I entered them into my browser and brought up Google. I did a search for some pages that were dropped and there they were! Go back to the natural Google search and Poof! not there!

A couple terms we have had at #1 & #2 for years now suddenly is gone. Yet, I see them under the IP addresses listed above. Has the old content and Big Daddy not caught up yet? What gives? For the longest time I’ve had around 9800 pages listed but now down to 7150? Big Daddys IP from above listes us still at 9800. Big Daddy is Live now I believe so which results are current? Any help/info would be Absolutely appreciated

By: Mike Goldstein

Mike Goldstein — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 16:56:11 +0000

Is there a tool or a list somewhere so that we can test different data center results for the same search. For example, what does a data center in Paris return and what does one in Boston return?

By: Mark Broccardo

Mark Broccardo — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 18:47:56 +0000

Matt, when is Big Daddy going to go live?

Thanks!

By: Rollback

Rollback — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 14:12:36 +0000

It looks like we have a major rollback in progress, including 66.249.93.104.

What was once old, is new again!

By: Brian Robinson

Brian Robinson — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 18:01:55 +0000

Hi Matt,
I’m noticing a huge drop in the number of pages indexed on BigDaddy vs. the other datacenters as well. The other datacenters are showing 16,300 pages indexed while BigDaddy is only showing 515 pages. There have been some 301 redirects set up recently but not enough to warrant a drop like this. Meanwhile our rankings are really good on BigDaddy so it leaves me confused when you say that the index is not smaller.
Thanks,
Brian.

By: Adam Senour

Adam Senour — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 02:36:13 +0000

In addition, do you predict the federal government will force you to be honest about your advertsing and post your per-click fees right next to your ads? I do:-)

And I predict it’ll be a cold day in Hell before you realize the nationalistic ignorance of this statement.

You seem to forget that a law like this would never fly because there are a whole bunch of other countries outside of the US (forgive me if you’re not American, but I haven’t ever seen a non-American utter a statement like this) that would have to adopt the law as well.

And since Google.com does reach those countries and will be shown in those places where geotargeting of an IP does not resolve it to a country (e.g. AOL), it isn’t going to happen.

By: Jim Vine

Jim Vine — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 22:46:45 +0000

Hi Matt,

Thanks for the information on BigDaddy. I’ve two comments / questions:

1. Yesterday I was trying out 66.249.93.104 and found with a site search that my site (site:letsuni.org) seemed to have been crawled a lot more thoroughly on BigDaddy than on usual Google – it was showing up about 30 or 40 pages, instead of the usual 1. I’m not worried about the number of pages on normal Google, because the site has only been up a short while, and we’ve not attracted many links yet – I was pleasantly surprised that BigDaddy had indexed it so well. Today I clicked back on to 66.249.93.104 and I discovered that site:letsuni.org was now returning just one page (same as normal Google). Is that IP address still good for BigDaddy? If so, why would I see this yo-yo-ing of numbers of pages indexed? As I say, I’m not worried about how the pages are ranking just yet, but I’m intrigued as to whether they’re getting onto the indexes at all

2. Not exactly about BigDaddy, but it’s come up in relation is the issue of Duplicate Content. For usability reasons we have put up a series of information guides, both in a ‘generic’ section (www.letsuni.org/information) and a location-specific section (www.letsuni.org/nottingham/information). There is some specialisation of the “Nottingham” guides, but the majority of the content is the same. In future we may extend the site to cover other locations, and I would expect that, again, the bulk of their information guides would be duplicates, with some specialisation. My question is – will this hurt us in the Search Engines, and if so, what is the recommended solution?

Thanks,
Jim

By: Googer

Googer — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 20:46:29 +0000

Google BigDaddy is an SEO honeypot. Don’t get caught!

By: George

George — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 20:50:14 +0000

Hi Matt,
Thanks for the interesting news about BigDaddy. I have been playing around with “him” a little bit and as far as I can see my site(s) are better ranked than in the “old” Google SERP’s. The results are not consistent (yet?) because on one search you can show up on first page and when you hit the search button again you might be on second or even third page. Not sure if it is supposed to be like this but that’s what I see.
I have sent spam reports to Google using the Google Ads Report a Violation. Not sure if that’s the way to go but 99.9% of the sites have Google ads on them. I can’t tell you what site it is (No URL’s here, you can email me if you want a list of them!) but if I go and search for one of my URL’s I find hundreds of pages that use my URL and text from my site (and of course rel=nofollow) just to get hits using my popular site(s). A lot of them are crappy scraper sites and they live off of Google Ads stealing traffic from other more quality sites. I am hoping that Google look at the spam reports and remove the sites or at least stop them from making money and they’ll eventually disappear.