Google's new Big Daddy DC's are removing 99% of my vbseo pages

Like the title says, Googles new Big Daddy DC's appear to not like vbseo pages. On non Big Daddy DC's I have anywhere from 933,000-1,050,000 indexed pages. On Big Daddy DC's I only have 296-384 indexed pages. They just rolled a new 3rd Big Daddy DC out yesterday, and it also only has 384 indexed pages. I wonder if we are being penalized for running vbseo in this new google update?

It's still just in "test" mode isn't it? I didn't think any results from it should be considered "real" yet?

Hello,

For "site:http://www.tampaforums.com/" query I have 14,400 results both at google.com and http://66.249.93.104 (exactly the same).

I've checked the number of pages indexed for several other vBSEO-enabled forums and the numbers are always nearly the same.

Now's not the time to jump to any conclusions.

Matt lists 3 ip's on his blog that have rolled the Big Daddy update:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/bigdaddy-progress-update/

66.249.93.104
64.233.179.104
216.239.51.104

BUT...

Q: Will those IP addresses always show Bigdaddy results?
A: No, not always. Sometimes data centers are taken out of the rotation for testing or other reasons.

My search on those 3 all gave different results. Keep in mind this is the largest infrastructure change (not just an algo or data update) that Google's ever told us about.

So you can either be pessimistic: Results 1 - 10 of about 240 from www.tampaforums.com
or be extatic: Results 1 - 50 of about 1,040,000 from www.tampaforums.com

or just wait until it settles since you can't be sure what's gonna happen.

Good luck,
Ross

We appear to have significantly more results on the Big Daddy DCs:

Code:

www.google.com.au
site:  13,200
vbseo:    512

66.249.93.104
site:  69,600
vbseo: 41,800

64.233.179.104
site:  68,100
vbseo: 47,800

216.239.51.104
site:  68,600
vbseo: 48,000

I think a lot of the DCs are still showing pre-Jagger data. For the last three months for my sites I've been seeing both Jagger and pre-Jagger data on a bunch of those .104 datacenters.

It would be good to hear from more people using VBSEO to see if BigDaddy is effecting their rankings.

Here is an article on BigDaddy:
BigDaddy Means Big Changes at Google by Brian Quinton.

Our ranknings for our primary keyword have improved. The bigdaddy IP ranks us 4th where we used to rank 7th. One site above us that had two listings now only has one and we have moved above another site which doesn't update their content as regularly as we do.

We have only just installed VBSEO and VB so we can't tell what impact it would have on our forums.

I have a huge INCREASE on the Big Daddy. I made changes to my sitemap a short while ago and lost about 30,000 links on google.

But, on the Big Daddy, I have regained those lost 30,000 and added about 160,000 new ones.

Google numbers seem to fluctuate quite a bit and I believe a lot of it has to do with what goes in those sitemaps. Somebody had led me to believe that google would use the sitemaps to pick up new content and would continue to verify and maintain the old stuff.

That doesn't seem to be the case. It looks like if it's not on the sitemap, google drops it. But, that's just my theory.