Uuuh, I smell a new shift in the Force. It seems Google keeps changing stuff…

Or it could just be another bug, like the position six bug that happened earlier this year (where established sites fell to position 6) which was then fixed. Truth of the matter is: some websites are being penalized for stuff they didn’t do, the sandbox effect is being enforced more (sites show up slower in the index if they’re new), Google’s cache doesn’t seem to get updated anymore, and crawl statistics seem to stop fluctuating in the index. And this seems like the system is pausing in order to change. Like the matrix is rebooting

As always senor Matt Cutts, aka Mr. Google to us simpletons (he deals with much of the SEO part of Google, at least from a PR point of view) has denied anything would be changing and said he’d be looking into the deal but I feel something fishy.

Thing is, I’ve experienced this stuff myself. My homepage cache hasn’t been updated since March 30th, which is odd, it usually gets updated every week at most, but otherwise everything’s normal. Cache is doing OK too…

Well, who knows what’s really happening, anyway, just keep watching the thread and see what happens…

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