New algorithm update hit Mahalo and EzineArticles hard

Some keyword stats for Mahalo:

"mahalo" - From #1 to #3 <- WOW.
“how to play guitar” – From #1 to #7
“bed bath and beyond coupons” – From #2 to #13
“fallout 3 walkthrough” – From #1 to #4
“to get pregnant” – From #2 to #119
“filestube” – From #5 to #81
“best christmas movies” – From #6 to #19
“outback steakhouse coupons” – From #1 to #5

For EzineArticles:

“acai berry” – #9 to #194
“reverse phone lookup” – #14 to #45
“penis enlargement” – #4 to #65
“article submission” – #2 to #12
“credit card debt relief” – #1 to #10

Very bad news for anyone who uses article directories. I'm gonna mine data on other sites, I just want to write a script to do it. Sick of doing it by hand.

 

Great find, Anyone with crappy content should be slapped on face!

 

Ho great buddy... finding those. thanks for sharing.

 

Too bad, that's what they get.

Do we need more threads of the same thing? latest google news

 

Hi,
this is a great find, thanks for sharing them. Can you also tell us how you managed to find such differences. have you been tracking them for sometime? Is it possible to find for what position site ranked previously.

 

The way I do it is I compare the Canadian and USA search results. It's not implemented in Canada yet so there's a difference for some sites.

I have a script running now that's capturing data on the USA and Canadian ranks for every domain in the SERPS for at least a few thousand keywords, so I'll be able to query a list of which domains were overall most affected either positively or negatively.

 

Google launched Thursday (yesterday) a major algorithmic improvement designed to reduce rankings for low-quality sites — ones that copy content from other websites or are just not very useful. It will also provide better rankings for high-quality sites — those with original content and information, such as research, in-depth reports, and thoughtful analysis.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/finding-more-high-quality-sites-in.html


Also: "To start with, we’re launching this change in the U.S. only; we plan to roll it out elsewhere over time. We’ll keep you posted as we roll this and other changes out, and as always please keep giving us feedback about the quality of our results because it really helps us to improve Google Search."

 

I've got about 15,000 domains analyzed with a rather small data set so far.

The worst:

EzineArticles - on 115 different search terms, each EZA page dropped an average of about 35 places
Hubpages - on 66 search terms, the average drop was 30 places
Squidoo - on 66 search terms, average drop was only 15 places, half that of Hubpages
Suite101 - on 40 terms, an average drop of 35 places
Articlesbase - 37 terms, average drop of 35 places

Big Winners
Amazon - 138 terms, average boost of 18 places
Etsy - 47 terms, average boost of 36 places
Ebay - 46 terms, average boost of 20 places

I'll be running this all day so I should have about 100 times the data.

 

I'd rather read ezinearticles than Amazon or Ebay ads. Google really dropped the ball here.

 

To be fair I'm using mostly commercial search terms so Amazon popping up makes sense.

I am noticing that there are some really good content rich sites as well as well made ecommerce sites without much content but good usability that are gaining significant rankings.

 

That sucks, I had already bought some nice articles to start my article submission marketing for my site.

 

Well they're not deindexed, just not ranking as well.

 

Thanks for sharing, interesting i must say!

 

So, what are the changes occurred in Google algo, so that we can get work for that particular base.

 

This could be good news for link directories, as more SEO may go back to being focused there.

 

finally they started flushing crap to the gutter!

 

Why ezine as ezinearticles has quality contents.

 

Yeah but did they? How are they measuring the writing in these sites as good or bad? Though everyone likes seeing spam put where it belongs, I can't help but wonder if some genuine quality material also got flushed along with it.

 

If we read some top blogs then all point out that this change less effected to low quality website then high quality ones!

 

Hubpages was also another one hit.