Not the numbers, don't get all excited. ;)

I don't know when it happened, but there were a bunch of scraped pages showing up as backlinks for one of my sites, and when I looked today they were all URL only.

I suspect there may be a tightening up in store for those.

Yea the # doesnt change the the results do. I have seen that. :)

We are due for a BL update. Since May 31 the average has been 21.875 days or 22 days. I am guessing we will have a update with in the next 5 days. Can I say due date Nov28th.

25 days: Nov23 Waiting
OCT28 GDPR Update
12 days: OCT28 BL Update
OCT18 BL Update Rolled Back
OCT17 GDPR Update
36 days: OCT16 BL Update
OCT6 TBPR Update; No BL update
11 days: Sep10 BL Update
21 days: Aug30 BL Update
Aug10 GDPR Update
24 days: Aug09 BL Update
24 days: Jul16 BL Update
22 days: Jun22 TBPR & BLUpdate

I'm also noticing - just found some more - that instead of regular AdSense, PSA's are being run on the scraped pages I've seen.

I'm not so much concerned with when they *visibly* update backlinks, one of the reasons being that I dont think it's necessarily when the links are actually being accounted for. It's what they might be doing with particular types of sites that have been showing up in backlinks that's grabbing my interest.

Notice what GoogleGuy said over here in another thread this week

And of course if you see some crufty/scraped/machine-generated page, you can always drop us an email to tell us about it.

Search Engine scrapers (http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?t=2721)