Last month quite a few people were hit by the mayDay algo update. I only lost around 15 percent traffic, but now it's all back up. Was just wondering if anybody was still struggling with traffic problems... Or did G reverse or slow down the whole thing? To me it's like MD never happened, but it might be because of some things I fixed on my site.
Still there creating trouble. My site hasn't recuperated. New algo is crap. Search results are irrelevant.
I noticed they are more strict on indexing pages; so the quality of the page matters more than ever. More quality content and more diversity, and less pages with only links...
I lost quite a bit of "short tail" traffic, but it was replaced with "long tail". I dropped 8 positions or so for some juicy short tails. I did get a few positions back, but not all of it. On the plus side, the overall traffic didn't change much.
didnt see any diff on the short tail traffic, not sure yet on long tail....seems like no change here...
Some people in the neighbouring poll on MayDay report that their traffic gets restored, some people say it didn't. I guess MD is not buried yet by Google. They are tweaking it back to certain extend.
Yes, I believe they tested out the new algo in some niches earlier than May. Two of mine were in March down 60%. Those came back a little over a week ago. I have 3 other sites that got hit in May and they haven't come back yet.
My traffic is restored now, and even getting better rankings for long tail keyword for which actually Algorithm update was done. Quite happy for my rankings
The algo's main function is to week out "thin" affiliates or sites that try to optimize for the long, to very long-tail keyword phrases. This was giving sites with very little content, such as e commerce sites rankings for phrases when the user might typically want more information vs just an option to buy it. Basically if you don't have an "authority" site you can expect to lose some of your longtail traffic to more content focused, higher PR websites.