SEO Google Update
- 19th May 2008
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What effects have you seen on your SEO client sites after the recent Google update? The algorithm certainly caused panic in a few areas in past weeks, with many complaining about lack of relevancy within the SERPS and cached data being somewhat unreliable. Surely change is good though isn’t it ? Where would we all be if everything stayed the same. SEO’s need to be kept on their toes if only to come up with more innovation and creativity with the work they are doing.
Anyone still seeing slow loads or had their favourite domain drop….?
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I’ve seen one of my favourite domains fair to middling which is a far cry from its glory days, but ironically the others have moved even stronger. I suspect this is because Google is favouring more local search factors.
I’ve lost my sitelinks.
I haven’t seen too much shuffling of the main terms but the long tail has been all over the place, mainly down.
I’ve seen good and bad results. Some clients sites dropped rankings big time while others went up.
I’ve seen pages with 0 content go up and pages with a thousand inbound links go down… google is confusing.
I have observed no big change in the niches that I follow perhaps if you go into advance analysis of the website with detailed data then you might come across some of the major fluctuations in the ranking, traffic etc.
But thanks DaveN for keeping us posted… and I compeletly agree with the fact that change is good. if there was not change then it would have been quite difficult to rank as everyone would be doing almost everything they could to get a better page rank.
Now whenever things change those who are spending great deal of time and following every possible change and sanario will and should be getting the benefit.
I hope that makes sense.
Regards,
Mark
Editor
http://www.212articles.com
We lost some of our positions, probably because we had a lot of crap directory links from years back.
No change at all for any of our clients.
Our website has remained stable across the board. Search traffic is up and various positions for top terms have improved.
Still seeing the same link buying and domain spamming tarts taking nr 1 spots though. ;-)
Wondering….who the tarts are….?
Bad update, seeing spam & commercial sites being pushed to the top.
I work in lots of sectors and haven’t seen that many changes.
I provide site design and SEO. I find that sites that once ranked with page 1 Google results based on good Keyword relevance and a page rank popularity and now ranking way below commercial directory sites like yellowpages,com, Dr Oogle, … In fact, the results page is listed with one second level directory after another. The keyword relevance is not equal (I am using my keywords), the page rank is equal at (PR3) but my site is now way down the list - all techniques have been “white hat SEO”. What is Google doing?