If your site is NEGATIVELY effected in this recent Google Event is your site commercial or informational? ALSO: If you are listed in Googles Directory, what category are you in? (full path) ie.- "Shopping > Recreation > Outdoors > Varied Merchandise" Thanks, Caryl
Not my site but a site I did SEO work for. Informational site about an author and his book. Only commercial thing about it is that is has a link to Amazon for his book. Was number 1 for a long time now no where to be seen.
I'm in Regional > Europe > Denmark > Arts and Entertainment > Artists and Galleries I have adsense and chitika on the site, and a page with information about buying art.
Other download site. /Top/Computers/Internet/Chat/Instant_Messaging/AOL_Instant_Messenger/Buddy_Icons/ Wasn't crawled for 3 months then last week deep crawled... all pages cached and rankings similar to pre october 2004 before joining coop. Now fluctuating between very good rankings and none. None on most dcs. I believe this must be temporary, as the rankings I do have are old supplementals and not taken from site: results
My unaffected site was /Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Business_and_Economy/something My affected site was /Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Travel_and_Tourism/something
Informational, all is original content. NO sales on site. Regional > Europe > Spain > Autonomous Communities > Balearic Islands > Mallorca > Travel and Tourism > Travel Guides But the effect is being good, I'm getting better SERP on some datacenters.
Commercial, sales on site, not in Google Directories, but am in Google Local.. Getting KILLED in the SERPs since this started.
Cricket site in sig. Not commercial, no sales on site, no DMOZ/Google Dir. Dropping like a stone for major keywords other than primary.
Informational - NO Sales on site Not DMOZ Listed. Up since 2000. No coop/link vault (on site or being promoted in ads in the networks(s).) No bought/sold links Edit - overall negative effect on the site right now. Still jumping though.
Commercial - Sales & affiliates Dmoz listed since 2001/2002 /Shopping/Toys_and_Games/Games/etc Has coop running and some targetted at site. No sold links on site. A couple bought for site a while back. Dropped for some fairly static terms it held for nearly 2 years. - Negative effect.
Sorry, I guess that would be an important thing to add huh? I edited my original post - I would classify it as negative right now. Former top 10 places are sitting in the top 50 right now.
Niche site - informational with sells Regional > North America > United States > Indiana > Localities > I > Indianapolis > Arts and Entertainment > Dance Recp. links, directory submisssion, orginal content, adsense. no link-vault or coop. Negitive effect, from page 1 for popular KWs to page 11 and now on page 5. Jumping all around. Sites that do not rely on external links seem to not be affected for my KWs. Feels like my site has lost its pulled from external links. We have been **google slapped** (Trying to coin a new term here) and man it strings!
Computers > Internet > Web Design and Development > Hosting > N Generally down, some non-competitive and combined competitive kw phrases are ok: ('php web hosting provider' is now #75, been in the 70's - 90's since mid-August, I never ranked for 'php web hosting', #80 on April 7 to #55 on June 4 for 'web hosting provider' then dumped, and still is...) Bought a sitewide 3 months ago... shows in the number of backlinks. No coop, no automated link systems. No sold links, kicked a few who dropped my recip recently. A few links out are affiliate. However, I also had a few odd crawls, changed everything to linking absolutely recently. Fixed the odd crawls with robots.txt entries. Everything seemed good. Still good daily crawls for most of my root folder, every other for the rest. I don't know if it is pertinent, but I was trapped by the 302 redirect bug for a long time... most were linking with 'web hosting paypal' and it took a -80 hit yesterday, and another -2 today.
Shopping > Gifts > Gift Baskets > F Commercial Online Worked my way up and have had quite a few consistant top keywords for quite some time, now I have almost nothing left at the top and no where to be found for most of my best keywords. I hope it isn't going to stay this way.
Primary site - Web Design (Borrowing from GuyFromChicago since seems very similar) Not DMOZ Listed. (Don't think they actually update our small little town on dmoz anymore. Not for the past few years, it seems.) Up since 2000. No coop/link vault (on site or being promoted in ads in the networks(s).) No bought/sold links Negative affect: Ranked #1 (at worst, top 3) on msn, yahoo and google for: {city} web design for the past two years. No longer rank at all in google. Other sites have taken hits, however some use DP Coop, are not as old, different niches, etc. This site though, is solid and has nothing out of the ordinary working with or towards it. It's a small site, about fifteen pages total, that offers information about local web design, portfolio, seo optimization and a few tools.
Commercial, sales Computers > Software > Accounting > Time Tracking My site uses coop and some reciprocal linking (prolly around 30-40 links). There's also hundred or so one way links plus a few directory submissions. Site was top 10 for a number of terms before the coop, which I implemented in January this year. It had held these positions for nearly two years before the coop. These are now gone regardless of whether there was weight on that term or not. All terms that came from coop weight are gone. Pages without any coop weight on them that have no links (other than internal links) don't seem to have moved from the incidental page 5-10 rankings they had before. Whatever it is it's something to do with links....... I wonder if certain sites have been flagged for reprocessing of their links and temporarily all link weight to those sites has been removed. It's a thought.