Someone farted at MSN.

Rankings in the financial sectors were more or less untouched from what I could see until today; in one industry I'm seeing wildly positive swings and in another, some house-cleaning and a few negative moves. In all, it doesn't look terrible, however, I think many of the positions are a bit misplaced.

 

I would say the biggest problem isn't ranking, it is dropping pages which cannot be cured and analysed. They recommend having a backlink for internal pages but that is simply impossible.

 

I hope it returns back to normal. This update is making msn look bad.

 

Of course the day after I drop, HUGE NEWS regarding my topic comes out and I bet the searches are flying...

 

One of my sites that has been consistently in the top 10 for two of its main search terms the past few months and has dropped away completely.

All the top ranking positions for those two terms are filled with sites that have those keywords in the domainame, hyphenated or not.

Thankfully I've got a bunch of longtail search results that are pulling in decent numbers and google is starting to grace me with favourable traffic.

Note to MSN - Domain keywords need to be smacked down a notch again

 

Yea its rediculous that keywords in the domain name are ranking higher than websites with more backlinks and better relevancy.

 

My search results actually increased.

 

Nothing much terrible problem in few searches only

 

my site is droping again after i boost and stand in #1 in two days..
hahahha.. now i'm loosing faith

 

I see a website appears twice at SERP. Once position 4 and once position 12.

 

i got a lot of little losses, like 10 -30 spots dropped

but some of my sites are doing great still, so I don't think they changed that much

 

The serps still look screwy to me. I believe I read somewhere that whatever problems arose from the update would be corrected by this past Monday morning.

If they were corrected then I'm on the outside looking in.

 

Overall it really isn't a bad update; yes, I lost a few positions and gained a few, but when the # of blogspot and spaces results fall, I get happy with the quality.

One bug I am noticing is the ranking of some internal pages over the root URL when those internal pages aren't necessarily more relevant -- now, this could just be the URL usage, but I have a feeling it is something else too...something a bit buggy. We shall see; the serps flipped a lot over the past few days, so I'll just watch for a little while.

Cygnus

 

Well the fart didn't have a huge effect on my aquarium related site but it killed another site that I link to in my signature. I looked over the results today hoping to see better results but I didn't.

 

Yup, nothing is fixed in these results. It's worse than ever still and it's now tuesday (msndude mentioned not to worry about it till after monday)

I can't believe how many non relevant sites have been kicked up to the top of the results now. They definitely need to backup that spam train abit.

 

I am just seeing keyword stuffed domain names ranking at the top.

 

Hmmmm. got knocked down a peg to #2... by a spammy site.
Gonna have to open a can o' links to regain.

used a questonable link in wikipedia....

 

Does it look like they tried to increase the trust factor by a nudge or two? It doesn't really concern me, but I am noticing in sectors that I don't compete in that some sites ranking probably shouldn't rank for those specific terms, but do so because they are older/more trusted...for instance, irs.gov for a couple of financial industries that I was eyeing by haven't entered yet.

 

I would probalby think the same thing if they wern't my spaces pages falling

 

Ferret,

They did for my one of my primary industries...on a whim I checked another industry that I have on back-burner...okay, so the blog spam drop wasn't exactly constant. One has to scratch his head a bit over that; I was hoping they figured out how to provide less influence to blogs -- oh well.