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Rank Pulse Rocks!

Rank Pulse is really displaying its unique benefits this morning. There is indeed a an update underway and this time it looks as if the extraordinary spike was just the beginning and that the significant level of changes over the last few days have been a settling in or refinement phase.

This is based on looking passed Music in the most active listing and checking out the next 10. You have to select all of the current top 10 sites to see the picture clearly on this occasion. It looks as if Google may have attempted this change in May and abandoned it - coming back to it in June with even more vigor and is now consolidating and refining it. It would appear that Music is in total disarray with 100% change of the top ten on every day that we have looked recently so there is no trend to be seen. I'm not sure that I believe that but that's what the data seems to be saying.

This change applies in some degree to about two thirds of the 1000 keywords which Rank pulse monitor and the pattern is similar even in keywords with the lowest non zero level of activity.

Our main composer pages seem to be OK but Marimba MP3 has been knocked back from No 1 to the mid twenties across all but one of the data centers. For some reason that page now has no page rank which is odd and could account from its fall from grace.

On the broadband front there was a call from a BT technician in response to a service performance survey and we have an appointment to check progress later this week. Today download is up to 5.7 Meg which is what we were led to expect in the first place - so finger crossed. Of course it is still possible that the adaptive network software controling this feature responded to the effects of the rain on the line by gradually slowing things down day by day and we are now seeing the results of the subsequent dry spell.

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