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barry beat me to blogging this as I’m far to busy so credit to him for picking up on it.

You can see his post here: http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/022347.html

When he wrote about it the screen grab he had didn’t show this bug so I sent him one from a site of mine.

Here is the drop is click and impression according to google webmaster tools:

And here is a screen shot of traffic:

Bit of a google bug

I’ve just notice today that google has been hit by a duplicate content penalty and dropped in rankings…

I’m lazy and wanted to log into google webmaster tool so I search on google for “sitemaps” (It used to be sitemaps before)…

Anyway for the last few years google has been #1 for the search term “sitemaps” BUT not today…

Here is a screen shot showing google has indexed google.com and www.google.com

We can expect more ranking drop for google’s page over the next few weeks until google works out which is the “real” url..

Here is the query.. http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=sitemap

After the success of the barry tag also know as noydir tag to remove yahoo directory titles more info here

http://www.seohome.co.uk/2007/03/01/noydir-is-here/ 

Barry’s new crusade is to get “more” of the new google webmaster tools “link” section …

 He’s not asking for much hehehehe

PageRank score

The anchor text of a link

Which links are nofollowed

Are the links still live

Which links are images

It would be great in a way but would it really make a difference to an SEO ?

http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/012667.html

Pages with external links

 Pages with internal links

This is amazing.. Full link commands! WOW

Need I say more really..

The next few hr’s i’m playing

Well done google.. Thanks for giving us what we need !!!!!! 

Read more http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/02/discover-your-links.html

Quite a few comments in forums regarding the drop in indexing/ranking when adding the site maps protocol.. This used to be a google sitemaps topic and now has moved to yahoo, however tim (assuming Tim Mayer) has commented on SERT the following

This is simply not true.
Tim

Posted by: Tim at December 5, 2006 1:36 PM Permalink

 Last month Google, Microsoft & Yahoo! Back SiteMaps Protocol, so it makes sense to begin converting your sitemaps to one standardized file. One such webmaster did that, submitted the new file to Yahoo! and claimed that Yahoo!’s Site Explorer dropped half of his pages from the index.

Read the entire blog here:
http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/006856.html

Gbot activity..

This is very cool..

I have 3 sites with ye-oldie google sitemaps and its really good to see the difference..

Anyway this is what google said:

Check out these cool charts! We show you the number of pages Googlebot’s crawled from your site per day, the number of kilobytes of data Googlebot’s downloaded per day, and the average time it took Googlebot to download pages. Webmaster tools show each of these for the last 90 days. Stay tuned for more information about this data and how you can use it to pinpoint issues with your site.

Here is my chart:

More info here: 

 http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2006/10/learn-more-about-googlebots-crawl-of.html

This is great news imho.

Just for some reason only just got around to blogging it..

Ah well..

Anyway for anyone who hasn’t read about this yet it the fact that google going to give us far fresher Query Stats in the webmaster tools Query stats page..

From a 3 weeks stats to just a week .. i’m happy (and i’m clicking on the )

Previously, we showed data that was averaged over a period of three weeks. Now, we show data that is averaged over a period of one week.

 Read more : 

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2006/09/fresher-query-stats.html

I’m sure many people have noticed this and most likely blog about it..

But hey i’ve only just noticed it..

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
— Evan Esar (1899-1995), American Humorist

The above quote is taken on my sitemaps / webmaster tools “Crawl stats” page

Bit of fun.. Thanks google