Google Is Soooooo Dodgy

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I sold my website the other day which was ranking #3 for one main keyword and #1 for pretty much all others.

Because of the sale the new owner has removed my adsense codes and also analytics within 24hrs of doing this Google dropped the sites ranking on virtually all keywords.

This is so dodgy its just pathetic...

Google if you are listening you have been busted that many times, stop telling people you make algorithm changes for the people when that is not tru your algo changes are their to support your business model, to make you more money and to support your largest customers.
#dodgy #google
  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Did you change host servers or name servers?
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    • Profile picture of the author goindeep
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      Did you change host servers or name servers?
      Nope, new owner wanted everything simple so we done an internal transfer on domain name and he organized his hosting with the same company in fact nothing changed at all because he the hosting reseller just billed him to keep it on the same dedicated server.
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      • Profile picture of the author goindeep
        Could have been the algo, but I doubt it. The site literally specializes in the main keyword and now there are sites out ranking that are barely even considered competitors ranking higher.

        We also never done any black or even grey hat SEO, everything above board, no warnings no nothing.

        I honestly believe it has to do with removing Adsense... and it will be interesting to see what happens next as I know for a fact the new owner is going to upload his own adsense codes in the next few days plus his publisher account makes waaaay more money then mine ever did so will be very very interesting to see what happens.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dmreed4311
    might be the new updates
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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by Dmreed4311 View Post

      might be the new updates
      He picked a bad time to narrow down what the problem might be:
      • If he changed host servers.
      • If he changed name servers.
      • Removed Adsense (doubtful that matters).
      • New Google algo update (lost links?).
      • Possible WMT owner account change.

      ...all at the same time.

      Googlebot is probably confused by being hit with so many changes at once.
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      • Profile picture of the author yukon
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        Originally Posted by webby0031 View Post

        Really I do this all the time and throw sites about, it has never had an impact by switching name servers over and over and hosts
        Moving a site to a crappy host can mess with the SERPs. Really not a lot of info. from OP in this thread.
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  • Profile picture of the author HeadStartSEO
    Changing host if done correctly doesn't have a huge impact anymore. I do it all the time for big clients( talking about 10,000 page sites) and we get very little changes in the past few years in the serps.

    Look at your link profile first.
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  • Profile picture of the author Bent SEO
    I'd venture to guess it's the new update that just went live and not changing NS or hosts. Poor timing.
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    • Profile picture of the author HeadStartSEO
      Originally Posted by Bent SEO View Post

      I'd venture to guess it's the new update that just went live and not changing NS or hosts. Poor timing.
      Could be, give it a few days to a week. See what happens. I don't think the move did it. I've moved tons of sites before without much of a problem.

      I've even moved one from the UK to the US without losing ranks.
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  • Profile picture of the author FranksToys
    There was an algo update? That was probably it.
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  • Profile picture of the author goindeep
    FAQ: All About The New Google "Hummingbird" Algorithm

    "Does this mean I’m going to lose traffic from Google?

    If you haven’t in the past month, well, you came through Hummingbird unscathed. After all, it went live about a month ago. If you were going to have problems with it, you would have known by now.

    By and large, there’s been no major outcry among publishers that they’ve lost rankings. This seems to support Google saying this is very much a query-by-query effect, one that may improve particular searches — particularly complex ones — rather than something that hits “head” terms that can, in turn, cause major traffic shifts."
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      So you sold a website....what does google have to do with you selling
      websites?

      Did you give this person a written guarantee? If so, why? If not, only
      a fool thinks the internet is static...where does google say your site will
      rank forever?

      Paul
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      • Profile picture of the author discustipated
        Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

        So you sold a website....what does google have to do with you selling
        websites?

        Did you give this person a written guarantee? If so, why? If not, only
        a fool thinks the internet is static...where does google say your site will
        rank forever?

        Paul
        Shut up, Paul!
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      • Profile picture of the author goindeep
        Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

        So you sold a website....what does google have to do with you selling
        websites?

        Did you give this person a written guarantee? If so, why? If not, only
        a fool thinks the internet is static...where does google say your site will
        rank forever?

        Paul
        Haha what! Cheeeeeeel bro

        Its a discussion forum maaaaaan.
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      • Profile picture of the author RandySwanston
        Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

        So you sold a website....what does google have to do with you selling
        websites?

        Did you give this person a written guarantee? If so, why? If not, only
        a fool thinks the internet is static...where does google say your site will
        rank forever?

        Paul
        Calm downnnn!!!!
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  • Profile picture of the author Moneymaker2012
    It seems to be an update, seeing many people get hit from the start of october,
    so some more days will truely define what exactly it is.
    while, keep the fingers crossed
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  • Profile picture of the author terryd
    I switched hosts a few times with adsense on it and it's never once affected it.

    I would bet it was just the latest update.
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