Well its been mentioned on Twitter a few times so I thought I’d do a little write up on it, Google definitely did some sort of update last night we’ve seen rankings change across the board. Fortunately for our clients its been a positive update with most moving up, some significantly. Its nice to see hard work pay off!
We’re not yet 100% sure what exactly has changed in the algorithm to cause this little reshuffle to happen however being observant is a very important part of SEO so I’m just writing up on a few things it could be:
- The fact that Internal No Follows no longer counted on Internal Links
- Did we see an Authority push
- Was it just a rollback
- or was it the recent pagerank update filtering though the net
However Daves site no longer ranks for “Dave” hahaha he’s very upset about it.
Ant
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The changes I’ve spotted so far seem to be an increase in Google UK rankings for US-based websites:
http://www.seoptimise.com/blog/2009/06/google-uk-mixing-in-us-based-queries.htmlGoogle are definitely up to something, but I would expect the rankings to switch back to how they were again soon.
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Noticed some of the more recent link building activities being affected (e.g. in the last 6 weeks) – seems internal pages of my sites are being affected
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Kevin – I hope you’re right….
It is probably a combination of all the things mentioned, and then a few we don’t know about yet/haven’t worked out.
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A quick observation on this using various proxies: IP location seems to have something to do, at least on my keywords. But this was a very very quick check.
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“A quick observation on this using various proxies: IP location seems to have something to do, at least on my keywords. But this was a very very quick check.” we’re seeing similar results here Oscar – massive drop from top ten for mian keyword to 100+ in rankings – based on IP address / datacentre serving results.
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Well, this used to happen a lot on US results, so I’m not surprised if this is now applied to the rest of the world (or some countries).
What I see are not massive movements, but big enough. I dropped from the 8th to the 12th position for a big keyword. Won’t kill my business, but was very good for visibility and getting known.
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Our site has dropped from page 1 positions across the board apart from one which is still at number one. Flypark.co.uk is a long standing site going back to 1998 but the sites showing good positions appear fairly new.
Over the last few months we have worked hard on content and added new pages daily. Continued linking but none of this appears to work
David
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“based on IP address / datacentre serving results”
Hi ady we’re experience the same problem, top 10 results have suddenly disappeared into onto page 9 etc…
When you say it is based on the IP address of the datacentre you use, good you be more specific, are you saying the bigger the hosting company the higher the Google results seem to be?
Many thanks
Steven - 10
OK….
What I have noticed.
1. General results showing without any real geotargetting. For our company name, the top 10 used to be our site first, followed by 9 results of people talking about our company, press releases and such like.
now it’s our site first, followed by a lot of US sites including the .us version of our domain (not really applicable to a UK search)
Also I’ve noticed sites that are geotargetted to the USA now appearing in the top 10 for our main keyword where as they didn’t previously
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By IP/datacentre I meant the datacentre that was serving the results varied within the office and gave results anywhere from #104 to #9 in G.
We’ve seen this across quite a few of our clients and our exactfactor reports seem to bear this out (though these results can can be dodgy anyway depending on when the snapshots are taken) .
It does seem to have settled down now and we are seeing some stability in the results with top ten results returning for the main kw for our clients.
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Our site has dropped in rank, we generally float from #3 ot #5 over time, but now wwe have dropped to #15 for our main keyword, with a scattering of US results in between. The from UK only search puts us back up there.
We have been active in SEO and hopefully Google will revert back, but lets wait and see.
Yes No follow has lost its value. Got to research for next few days on updates.