google has done upcoming major update ?

[mphonesdeals]

so many rumours about google major update is under process but I think, google has done the major update today because serp results of google are very unexpected for me. have you checked ? do you know what's today update ?

 

[webhostuk]

Things have changed recently .. but good to see things are stable for us.

 

[RadiusBPO]

For a few keywords the SERPS are completely different today compared to yesterday. I'd say ues

 

[fisicx]

Not one move anywhere. All sites still ranking where they were yesterday and the week before and the week before that.

 

[Codefixer]

Yes there's definitely been movement.

I can see a couple of test sites I have drop significantly.
I'd say these sites were over optimised and relatively weak, both keyword rich domain name and the drops are not unexpected.

They had been pretty stable for a long time.

 

[coronaborcalis]

Google is already change their algho today, here is the post from Matt Cutts

googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2012/04/another-step-to-reward-high-quality.html

 

[mphonesdeals]

Finally, what should be new strategy from now or should I wait for some days ?

 

[Curious]

I've taken a hit on an ecommerce site.

It's strange though, just giving a few searches a once over quickly looks like my main competitors are still there using crappy links, one who's been blatantly buying crap links has taken a nice jump upwards!?

I also have a crappy test site held up on crap links and that's still fine?!

 

[jimmyjimmerson]

One site has slipped the rest have stayed.

I was thinking one of mine might be a kewyord filter though.

 

[sigmais]

Yes, there is some update yesterday as per http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2012/04/another-step-to-reward-high-quality.html, you can actually follow the google webmaster blog to know the latest update

 

[lockyer]

My main keyword domain is still number one for that keyword but about a third of the low volume searches completely disappeared off the charts

 

[RadiusBPO]

My main keyword domain is still number one for that keyword but about a third of the low volume searches completely disappeared off the charts

Would you say those low volume search pages which were ranking were "over optimised"?

 

[lockyer]

to be fair most of them didn't even have many backlinks with anchor text. they were just the odd keyword on a page

 

[Jayser100]

There is always a lot of panic about this stuff. Bottom line is, play by the rules and avoid hiring cheap, Chinese companies to do your SEO.

A warning story: A former business client of mine, who ran an opticians in London, Started an online webstore for designer sunglasses. He paid an SEO company to link him aggressively around the web; this got him up to number 2 (behind Sunglasses Shop) on Google UK for just about any sunglasses-related search term you can think of. he started making serious money, took on extra business premises, employed several members of staff and stocked up on all major brands of sunglasses.

One day, Google threw him way down their listings because of his SEO company's black hat techniques. He fought back to page one, then they threw him down again.

His company recently went into liquidation.

The moral of this story is, place links on good websites, preferably related to your subject matter. Get known around social media sites because Google is using these more than directories these days as a measure of popularity, and ensure your site content complies with their best practice. Don't get tempted to keyword-stuff because Google's algorithm is becoming more and more sophisticated when it comes to spotting that sort of thing. If you pay for links, put them on blog sites that aren't too loaded up with links and use simple, cheap text links with relevant anchor text rather than expensive banner ads because google are largely ignoring the latter for SEO now. Finally, change your main page content on a frequent basis to keep Google interested.

If you stick by these rules, you will survive most major changes on Google when they occur and hopefully, you will find your sites go up as the bad boys go down.

 

[Ding Dang Doo]

There is always a lot of panic about this stuff. Bottom line is, play by the rules and avoid hiring cheap, Chinese companies to do your SEO.

A warning story: A former business client of mine, who ran an opticians in London, Started an online webstore for designer sunglasses. He paid an SEO company to link him aggressively around the web; this got him up to number 2 (behind Sunglasses Shop) on Google UK for just about any sunglasses-related search term you can think of. he started making serious money, took on extra business premises, employed several members of staff and stocked up on all major brands of sunglasses.

One day, Google threw him way down their listings because of his SEO company's black hat techniques. He fought back to page one, then they threw him down again.

His company recently went into liquidation.

The moral of this story is, place links on good websites, preferably related to your subject matter. Get known around social media sites because Google is using these more than directories these days as a measure of popularity, and ensure your site content complies with their best practice. Don't get tempted to keyword-stuff because Google's algorithm is becoming more and more sophisticated when it comes to spotting that sort of thing. If you pay for links, put them on blog sites that aren't too loaded up with links and use simple, cheap text links with relevant anchor text rather than expensive banner ads because google are largely ignoring the latter for SEO now. Finally, change your main page content on a frequent basis to keep Google interested.

If you stick by these rules, you will survive most major changes on Google when they occur and hopefully, you will find your sites go up as the bad boys go down.

Just out of interest, does a twitter/Facebook feed onto your main landing page count as new text?

Pete

 

[DigitalDaz]

One of my sites seems to have had mixed results, around about the 24th I added some content to a domain I had done a 301 redirect on some time ago I immediately got a page one ranking which I did not want, the site is nearly empty but my primary site dropped like a brick for the equivalent search terms, luckily it has pulled back for its main keywords but still dropped from position 3 to 10.

I know Google seems to think its pulled a blinder here but I've already seen posts around seo forums which raise concern.

If we take it that say crap backlinks are going to penalize you then what is Google going to do when the spammers start spamming competitors sites with cheap baclinks to take out the competition. Surely they have just made a rod for their own backs.

 

[Big Pete]

A real mix of happenings on results on some of mine , a few have dropped of the radar a couple rose a touch . but a couple of my better ones have dropped like a stone hoping its just a glitch from changing servers ,and not through any penalty etc, and it comes back or i am not going to be amused ..

time will tell i guess ..

 

[Webtistic]

Just out of interest, does a twitter/Facebook feed onto your main landing page count as new text?

Pete

As long as the feed outputs html, the answer is yes.

 

[nitro23456]

One of my sites seems to have had mixed results, around about the 24th I added some content to a domain I had done a 301 redirect on some time ago I immediately got a page one ranking which I did not want, the site is nearly empty but my primary site dropped like a brick for the equivalent search terms, luckily it has pulled back for its main keywords but still dropped from position 3 to 10.

I know Google seems to think its pulled a blinder here but I've already seen posts around seo forums which raise concern.

If we take it that say crap backlinks are going to penalize you then what is Google going to do when the spammers start spamming competitors sites with cheap baclinks to take out the competition. Surely they have just made a rod for their own backs.

Im not being funny, but why are you putting new content on a 301'd site?

Either no-one is going to see it as it will redirect somewhere or you haven't 301'd it properly or you have removed the 301 which should have been used to tell google about a permanent redirect which in fact isnt permanent?

 

[DigitalDaz]

Im not being funny, but why are you putting new content on a 301'd site?

Either no-one is going to see it as it will redirect somewhere or you haven't 301'd it properly or you have removed the 301 which should have been used to tell google about a permanent redirect which in fact isnt permanent?

Because the domain was live still, I decided to use it to rebuild the current site on and removed the 301 redirect. I didn't want anyone to see it, it was just covenient. I thought the 301 redirect would have already had its permanent effect and the redirect would have been long forgotten if that makes any sense.

I mistakenly believed that it would be like using a brand new domain again. I've now reinstated the 301 redirect and am using a subdomain to build the new site on.

 

[nitro23456]

Penguin was rolled out on the 24th stateside and the latest incarnation of Panda on the 19th.

Dates seem to fit in with the general descriptions above.

 

[spiritusuk]

Google has dropped a Neutron Bomb and caused a lot of collateral damage.

The inconsistency is a real issue but for the first time since I have been using the t'internet Google are throwing up results that have ZERO relevance to the search terms......and even some of the relevant results are one page spam sites.

Examples:

type "something" into google and check the first result on organic listings.
type "make money online" and check the sites from the top 5. One of them is a Wordpress blog that has been abandoned and has no content on at all
type "buy phentermine" and one of the top results is a site advertising leadership coaching (phentermine is a weight loss drug !).

Something is seriously wrong with their algorithm

 

[trebor8]

It is quite shocking but aren't Bing and all the other search engines missing an opportunity to pounce and capitalise?
Bing do seem to have better control on spam in their listings.

 

[mphonesdeals]

yes, I think, bing is not missing oppotunity to pounce because he is also doing some changes contiue after merging with yahoo. and i am sure, so many seo executive looking to going with bing and yahoo after shocking google update.

 

[RadiusBPO]

It is quite shocking but aren't Bing and all the other search engines missing an opportunity to pounce and capitalise?
Bing do seem to have better control on spam in their listings.

In my opinion Bing give way too much weight to Exact Match Domains. But yeah why aren't they launching a fully scale social media campaign, and engaging with the SEO community. Many of us SEO's are the go to guys for computer stuff for our circle of friends and family, if we start saying "hey use bing" I think a lot of people will start switching.

There are probably too many management layers to take quick action though...

 

[Big Pete]

It is quite shocking but aren't Bing and all the other search engines missing an opportunity to pounce and capitalise?
Bing do seem to have better control on spam in their listings.

I agree .. now is the time for them to jump in as googles all over the place..

 

[terryuk]

In my opinion Bing give way too much weight to Exact Match Domains. But yeah why aren't they launching a fully scale social media campaign, and engaging with the SEO community. Many of us SEO's are the go to guys for computer stuff for our circle of friends and family, if we start saying "hey use bing" I think a lot of people will start switching.

There are probably too many management layers to take quick action though...

All they need to do is turn up weight of anchor text up a notch and SEO's would flood the gates

 

[mphonesdeals]

Many of us SEO's are the go to guys for computer stuff for our circle of friends and family, if we start saying "hey use bing" I think a lot of people will start switching.

actually to less trends of users to use searching through bing search engine. so if seo guys switch to bing and find thier keywords on top but no any advantage because our maximum keywords ranks in bing under top five but i am not finding visitors.

 

[marcoose]

According to Google only 3% of websites have been effected - I would say it has been MUCH more.

 

[I, Brian]

Some of these results are the worst I've seen for a long time. Keyword domains and news articles are really clogging up some searches. If this is supposed to make results more relevant then I'm a teapot.

However, my Adsense has shot up - probably because I've been investing in keyword domains since 2006.

 

[coronaborcalis]

That is why I don't want really relying on one source for generating leads/sale