I'm surprised no one started a thread on this yet. The G results went crazy last night for tons of niches and they are all over the place. This does not affect all data centers, at this time. It's confirmed by tons of people in Webmaster World. There is no rhyme or reason to the change. Many super old sites that have thousands of pages of content (authority sites) were hit hard. You guys seeing crazy results in your niches? In most cases it looks like the Blackhatters are winning with this one.
All my customer's legitimate businesses are the same. Fortunately, garbage web sites, like yours, are being given the boot. Good job, Google!
Good to see I'm not alone. I took a major hit. There are plenty of garbage sites at the top (keyword domain names, etc.). Hoping this is a temporary blip, but not happy right now at all.
What is causing these sites to slip or move up so drastically? There has to be something that Google sees.
The sites that are slipping big time are some well aged sites that have diverse and long range back link profiles. respecting the df rules I will not list urls. check WMW forum if you are curious. there are tons of conspiracy theories. but I don't see any relationship between those sites that are tanking. something is really wrong over in G town.
Google just announced that they made a change that's likely to affect 11.8% of sites in an attempt to crack down on low quality sites. The alrorithm update date coincides with yours. Check out http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/finding-more-high-quality-sites-in.html Note: This has rolled out in the US only so far, rest of the world will follow afterwards.
I am thrilled! I have a theatre company site I set up for them for free. They have almost nothing going on since they just started out but do manage to stay on the first page of a Google search. Two days ago, I was surprised to see they were listed third. Today they are #1 and #2!
I'm hoping results are still in flux, but I'm not feeling very good about these shifts. I'm seeing drastic moves on several sites. Seeing some sites take over 1,2,3 in results and plenty of craps sites in there also. Is it time to panic? Any thoughts on how things of this nature have worked out in the past?
In the past we see a 3 day to 3 week shake off. The sites that truly deserved rankings come back. As they re-index pages with new parameters. Hopefully, it will happen again.
It's going to be a long next couple of weeks. Geez. Sounds like they went after a specific target, but plenty of us are feeling the collateral damage. Not sure what to make of it.
The funny thing is every person I have heard from is saying eHow results are coming out stronger than ever. If there was ever someone their radar. Also I hear EZA and other article directories took a huge hit!
Rankings of pages on article directories are dropping by an average of over 30 spots. I suspect anyone who uses articles for link building will be affected.
Damn, guess I wasted last month writing 50 articles and syndicating them? They are going to have to make adjustments though the results are really not good. Comparing datacenters using scroggle and google, I notice the quality really is worse (noticeably) on 10 valid honest searches, completely outside of my niche.
For the past few years I have seen so many people talk about "The Death Of Article Marketing". I think people should talk more of "The Death Of Bum Marketing". While this huge Google algorithm change is not "The Death Of Bum Marketing", I honestly think it is a huge blow to it. Articlesbase and Ezinearticle should be mourning now!
So, does this mean that submitting articles to Ezine and other article directories shouldn't be done anymore? I'm confused on what is happening to article directories, as well as sites that have articles in them.