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Google has updated our Product pages

A little while ago I mentioned that Google seem not to have picked up recent updates of our product pages but a check today confirmed that the latest version is there.

But, the cached versions are still ancient. In the past these two aspects of Google used to march in step but the cache is evidently being left behind some times.

The weather is so nice this week that we have decided to bring the Spring Sale to a close as soon as we can update the templates etc i.e. in a few days.

We are also going to take down the poll experiment from the Bach page at the same time because that has attracted very little interest.

After a lull of a few days something is stiring in the Google pot with experiments with radical reductions in the pages from count at some data centers which was what prompted today's check on pages held. And there was what may turn out to be the start of a ripple on Rankpulse. Where would we be without all these monitoring tools?

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