Is there a Google rollback going on ?

I have noticed the last two days that things seem to be improving. I am wondering if all the problems stem from Google testing some new algorithm. They are constantly changing things so maybe that is all it was.

 

How many days you were affected by this?

 

For my site things have never been this unstable, I noticed some sort of rollback, main keyword back on the frontpage ( where they were for more then 2 years ). But today they went back again, meaning mainly on pages 5 -10 of the search pages in Google.

In my niche ( erotic art/games ) the serps are full with spammy stuff that basically practice all the things we usually consider a no go, like keywords spam in title/body/description or even page's without any content at all, under construction pages and doorway pages. While the more established site's with unique content, decent backlinks and an overall professional design/structure are gone.

I wonder if the new algo or filters are not triggered on emtpy sites, or on sites that go beyond a certain amount of rules, maybe the normal ones are squeezed by those filters and the ones I mentioned just remain behind ( there has to be something in the serps no? )

What's new to me is the length of this instable results, normally they are back to normal in a week or two. But now this situation just seem to continue.

 

It's the Google dance. Many DC's are showing PR0 for me here.

 

I'm also experiencing this. our keywords rankings are dropping each day. I noticed this a few days ago. Any idea, what's going on?

 

I'm glad it's not just me, I was wondering what the hell was going on. Things were changing by the hour with one site for the last week or two

 

now this one scares me. i hope our PR6 site won't go down that far.

 

It is all speculation at this point since we will never know what Google is up to. But some of the speculation is that Google has been testing ranking penalties for over optimization on the quality and quantity of inbound links. While this testing continues, my assumption is that certain clean sites may fall into this penalty.

 

all are consistent for me?

 

For me also,
9 DC's are showing PR0 for me.

 

It's same old same old with Google. Now you see, now you dont. Patience is generally the key, however, sometimes you have to wonder whats' the cause for such HUGE drops.

 

strangly it seems that overoptimized site's do rather well, I have seen many original content sites go down ( like some pages on wired, salon etc.. ) where there was no over optimalization. It's the same with my site, I just write about art and games naturally, without stuffing. If keywords apear in the text often in an article then thats just functional to the story, not to manipulate mr. G.

 

Not that I'm to much nervous ( I receive a good traffic from social sites), but after I was sandboxed a month ago I thought everything will be OK.

 

Has google done a "role back" before? Why would they do this?

 

I think everyone should post how long ago they submitted their site to google and how their site was affected.

I know I have a site started about 6 months ago that has been bouncing in and out of serps over the past couple of days. Really wish google would give us some heads up.

 

I posted about some google changes on my site in the last 7 days

 

They haven't done a roll back in four years.

This isn't one, it's just another update, completely different than anything before.

 

The drop affected my sites for 5-7 days, then rankings returned gradually (not overnight), over 2-3 days.

 

Exactly right about it now being a rollback. Google most likely is testing out some new filters and some sites are getting affected as Google turns the dials up or down.