Google Update Sucked, How was it for you
- 29th Jul 2008
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OK, let’s do a quick list of things that may upset some Webmasters :
Pagerank Drop: My Instant Messenger hasn’t stopped today with people saying things like “Honest Dave I haven’t done anything wrong yet I have dropped PageRank”. Don’t worry ME TOO. I was a PageRank 6, now I’m a PageRank 5 it seems pretty epidemic PR went down for most.
New Pages didn’t get indexed: Me Too again, we changed the structure on DavidNaylor.co.uk, and added our contact page into the pages section and created the SEO Services page which linked to search engine optimisation, pay per click management and search engine marketing pages.
Of course the links and pages have been around for 3 months but NO Google indexing, but it’s the contact one that hurts the most I guess, it should rank for contact David Naylor at least lol.
Pages that look like they have been hand removed: Google doesn’t show my page but it’s in Google Cache
To me it looks like that page has been hand removed. But why? I’m lucky. Even with that page excluded from the index I still rank for my contact details. Other pages that have suffered the same fate have dropped 8 or 9 pages in the rankings with no reason for those pages to be removed. No link buying had occurred ( in-fact no link building).
This is worrying, most people that have been in contact today and yesterday feel they have done nothing wrong. Yet in Google their sites have dropped. The fact that they were so scared that Google would do this made them stop link building altogether and watch over the last 3 -4 months their competitors that are link buying slowly overtake them.
DaveN
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I’m seeing a lot of previously penalized sites jump back up high in rankings across a lot of places. Also have seen new pages not getting indexed at all, even with a strong internal link push.
Yep. I’m rapidly understanding the SEO world is not an easy one to live in sometimes.
Dave has been hot on the tail of these events non-stop since the update began. Keeping up ( and ahead) with search is not an easy task.
Such tenacity will surely pay dividends in the long run. It’s not the SEO rock star lifestyle some would believe.
The PR for my dinky little blog jumped from 1 up to 3, so I’m happy with that. Finally started showing PR on some of my internal pages as well.
But I’ve also noticed a slowdown in crawl rates and indexing times over the last few weeks. I’d put it down to the fact that I’ve not been posting as often as I was, but it sounds like it’s happening to a lot of other people at the moment as well.
I can’t believe how many sites came back in without doing any clean up as well .. lol Brand is everything and people expect to find that brand for those terms
Our site that launched in Feb 08 dropped from a 5 to 4, although the internal pages that had PR kept it.
On the other hand, as you’ve reported, pages created within the last month or two have no PR, even if they were linked directly from the PR5 homepage.
Actually it was good for me this time. Maybe because seen pagerank increased on many site hosted in Canada.
Top 5 slots seem OK, but below that it looks like they refreshed the Inktomi database.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Awww.davidnaylor.co.uk%2Fpages%2Fcontact.html&btnG=Search
dude
http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&hl=en&q=www.davidnaylor.co.uk%2Fpages%2Fcontact.html&btnG=Search
thats more intresting
Message i’m getting from these serps is dont waste time with getting natural quality links. Don’t bother investing money, in marketing, content, and features that attracts links, spend it all on paid links, networks, and spam away.. its only a short term risk
My opinion on Dutch Google update & Media Entertainment industry:
• keyword rich domain name websites (crap ones) claiming top 5 spots.
• university websites (they’re on the standard .nl) claiming top 5 spots.
• Wikipedia got extra credits. Dutch Wikipedia stealing top spots and even English wikipedia is ranking top 5 for certain phrases.
Pagerank stayed the same, we’re performing better for two of our top phrases, just the third top phrase that dropped 5-7 places.
All in all more crappy websites showing up in top 5 and the same link buyers and domain spammers are still taking nr1. :)
“This is worrying, most people that have been in contact today and yesterday feel they have done nothing wrong.”
Maybe it’s just lots of other people doing lots of different things right?
I have a site that’s been ranking number 2 for its search term for a long while now. The site recently underwent a refresh but maintained its rank, then today I find it’s dropped 7 whole pages. Link devaluation? Penalty? Not doing anything underhand.
Seems this latest update has delivered a swift kick to the knackers for many webmasters.
A couple quick thoughts. We do have the contact url in our database, e.g. a search for [”Fill out the form below to enquiry about our services and tools”] returns it. It’s just that we’re not showing it when you query with a url search at the moment.
Also, your contact page mentions “Dave” Naylor quite a bit, but hardly mentions “David” Naylor at all. It wouldn’t hurt to include the word David on there instead of Dave if you want the contact form to show up for david instead of dave.
I wish Matt Cutts posted on my blog : )