A few weeks ago, I lost a lot of my best serp listings. Seems many others have been complaining about the same, here in the forums. Luckily enough there must have been an update again, because all my spots seems to be right back where they were before. I'm going to have to sacrifice 2 virgins this month, for the google gods.
Not like this.. these sites were always pretty rock solid in their listings.. Then went so far back I couldn't even find them. Now they are back to the top again.
you must have all types (directory backlinks, forum signatures, blog posts etc) of backlinks to avoid from serp changing
I agree with crockett. I'm pretty sure there is a big algo update going on because I lost SERPS for several stable (2+ years) sites since the beginning of this month. I hope they will return pretty soon
A lot of people here and on other forums are complaining about sudden big SERP drops. So this has either to do with the upcoming PR update or G is updating something else...
Usually SERPS update on daily basis, but this huge drops is some thing different maybe because of google updates is running.
Although they change slightly on a daily basic, the major changes occur when there is a major update.
Yea that's what I'm getting at. I saw big drops not like the normal everyday serps movements. This was a total drop to almost nothing, now I'm back up top again. I'm also going to have to say there had to have been a big re-ranking. I have another site that is from 2001 and I held the top spot for a 10 million result keyword. I was always between number 1 to 3 for the keyword and considered an authority site. I lost that listing earlier this year, I was knocked back to almost nothing, I was back in the 100's for no reason that I could find. For the last several months nothing I did put me back in the good listings. Now I just noticed after this serp update I'm back on the first page listed at #9. So there was for sure some major shifts in the listings, yesterday or the day before. btw a lot of my competition for the keywords remained the same. So this didn't affect everyone, but I figured I'd post for the guys that lost their ranking recently. Might be best not to change too much until this settles.
I was listed on page 4, number 38 but climbing, and now I', 198. All while the top 5 for my search term remain the same. Why is it that certain sites stay in the top position? Is all do to linking, and their backlink count? --Don
Survival of the fittest : YES it is the darwin's theory on which google works. Work on continuous improvement of your site or you might lose your rankings.
Heh that's probably what they are waiting for. It is crazy to think, they have become the world's most valuable web-based company and even rank up there with some of the brick and mortar companies. Yet their domain isn't even 10 years old. grrr what have I been doing the last 10 years...
Sounds like an exact Q I had several weeks ago. While I enjoyed life at #1 in the Big G SERPs , then one day BAM! gone 4-5-6 pages...no listing? then a few days later back on top again. The non-secret here, is to add content, doesn;t have to be huge, something new ...anything. Worked for me
Algorithms can change at any time. A few weeks ago there was a Google Algorithim update that downgraded sites for keyword density.