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Big Daddy's Done?

McDar is back and Reladvance is better.

Both are showing very few differences between data centers for key words that have been good indicators of Big Daddy progress up to now so it looks as if that is done. With Reladvance we can also see the variations in PR, Backlinks and Pages indexed which are extant across the data centers but evidently they are incidental to the Search Results rather than causal which is a useful lesson for the future interpretations of what is going on with Google updates.

Our problem is that we have been seeing a steady decline in visitor numbers from all sources over the last several weeks. Big Daddy has seen significant swings and roundabouts for various of our key words and phrases.

While updating the sample pages we have noticed potential sources of confusion between the composer and sample pages and part of that update has been to make the purpose of the sample pages clearer and make their optimisation. We are also working on the Ringtone pages to make their purpose more distinct from the related samples and composer pages. At the same time we are trying to make the calls to action on those pages more focused and put the other links more in the background. We can expect the optimisation to take several weeks to have any impact so yet more patience will be required.

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