I remember they did this before - I think about 10 months ago, but it wasn't so obvious as this. My site has moved down about 6 positions and 12 positions (I had two pages ranking) for the main term and a load of less-relevant US sites are not above it.
I had someone ring me yesterday from here to say that their site has dived massively. All around I've seen it. They have obviously changed some sort of geo-targeting stuff.
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I remember they did this before - I think about 10 months ago, but it wasn't so obvious as this. My site has moved down about 6 positions and 12 positions (I had two pages ranking) for the main term and a load of less-relevant US sites are not above it.
I had someone ring me yesterday from here to say that their site has dived massively. All around I've seen it. They have obviously changed some sort of geo-targeting stuff.
Hmmmm, not sure why they are doing this.
I have just noticed, I am as high in the google.com serps for "seo" as I am in google.co.uk. That should not be right.
I have had a customer of mine drop from page 1 of google.co.uk to page 5 today too. Not Good.
I also noticed that this has been happening for a few days, and hoped it would fix itself. But...... now it is becoming annoying.
Thanks for your answer David64. I will be honest, some things I skim through on this forum, but your posts, I always read thoroughly as I believe your a good asset to this forum, and a genuine contributor. Thanks.
When you ask... "What is your name" Do you mean, My Name? Or company name?
I have just noticed, I am as high in the google.com serps for "seo" as I am in google.co.uk. That should not be right.
Me either, I was ranking on google.co.uk for a niche SEO term which brought in a decent amount of traffic, but now I've been kicked off in favour of a company based in New Jersey. How many UK companies are going to want to use an SEO company 1,000s of miles away?
I can only hope that this is going to be changed just like that "big brand" thing was.
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I have had a customer of mine drop from page 1 of google.co.uk to page 5 today too. Not Good.
Sorry to hear that. At least now you can now forward this thread to your client to show them this is something out of your hands.
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I also noticed that this has been happening for a few days, and hoped it would fix itself. But...... now it is becoming annoying.
Yeh, I also noticed it, I think on Monday for a few hours.
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Thanks for your answer David64. I will be honest, some things I skim through on this forum, but your posts, I always read thoroughly as I believe your a good asset to this forum, and a genuine contributor. Thanks.
Thanks . There have been a lot of spammer on here of late.
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When you ask... "What is your name" Do you mean, My Name? Or company name?
I wonder if this is only for the UK? webdesign.about.com has appeared out of nowhere at the bottom of page one of google.co.uk for "web design" but on google.de the same page is only on page three. I would have thought it was higher up on .de if this has been a universal change.
I'd imagine this is just something that Google have changed temporarily and are monitoring it to decide if its going to be left as is, tweaked or removed.
I wonder if this is only for the UK? webdesign.about.com has appeared out of nowhere at the bottom of page one of google.co.uk for "web design" but on google.de the same page is only on page three. I would have thought it was higher up on .de if this has been a universal change.
I'd imagine this is just something that Google have changed temporarily and are monitoring it to decide if its going to be left as is, tweaked or removed.
Surly, they have to remove it, or tweak it a lot. As it just does not make sense at all. Why would someone in the UK want US listings for website design or SEO. Now I know, these can both be done anywhere, but normally, you hire someone from your own country (so if they do a bad job you can send the heavies down there) he he.
I can only hope that this is going to be changed just like that "big brand" thing was.
I think you can safely say it will change.
Google have a bigger slice of the market here in the UK (and other countries) than they do in the US (where the likes of Yahoo have more market share).
The reason for that is largely attributed to Googles (ex) superior geo targeted results... cannot see them flushing their competitive advantage down the bog somehow. If they dont fix it they will lose market share in the UK.
Particularly bad timing for Giggle to have done this at the same moment barmy bills cronies wheeled out the "Bing Thing"...
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Very insightful take on this GNU. Had not thought of that angle. Coincidently, I have seen a few sites move dramatically up Yahoo at the moment, including the poster of this thread:
It seems SEO terms have been hit the hardest. However its all over the place. For example "electrician" (http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=electrician) is now bringing up a US government web page that is totally irrelevant to the UK.
Strange, a few days Matt Cutts was criticisng the Bing team because he was getting irrelevant search results for his name on there:
. There have been a lot of spammer on here of late.
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