Feb 24th Google Update a Killer? Find out who is hurt and how to fix it...
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Here's the announcement from Google:
Official Google Blog: Finding more high-quality sites in search
A lot of people are reporting changes in their rankings and a loss of traffic, so this could be considered a pretty major update that effects a lot of people.
The Hurt List
So far it seems to be...
- Killing off scraper sites with lots of duplicate content.
- Reducing the rankings of pages which don't have any backlinks (or decent backlinks), especiallly on large sites (think content farms)
- Devaluing the backlinks coming from pages that are dupe content including scraper sites and poorly spun content.
The Love List
So far it seems to be benefiting:
- greyhat/BlueFart sites with crappy content that have lots of backlinks to individual pages
- exact match domais with good backlinks to the homepage
- high quality authority sites where individual pages get lots of natural links
- any page with lots of genuine editorial citations (i.e 100% whitehat backlinks from decent sites)
- any page with lots of quality backlinks that appear more natural to Google
My situation:
What happened after Feb 24th 2011.
Backlinks: True natural backlinks from authority sources
Content: Unique, High Quality. Typically 200-500 words.
Individual Pages Linked: Sometimes, but large amount of pages don't get linked.
Number of Pages on My Sites: Thousands (all unique hand written content from fluent English writers)
Amount of Traffic: Thousands of daily visitors per site.
Other info: Longtail traffic hit the most, seems to be pages that lack backlinks that have suffered. Traffic loss averages 20-30%.
Your Turn...
Please copy this and post your own situation so we can figure out a pattern. Please do this whether things are better, worse or the same for you
My situation: What happened after Feb 24th 2011. Backlinks: What type of backlinks? Content: Quality and uniqueness of content? Individual Pages Linked: What percentage of individual pages on your site get external backlinks. Number of Pages on My Sites: Amount of Traffic: Other info: Traffic lost gain - what sort of pages?
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