Did Google just roll out an update?

9 years ago

That sucks.

Guess it's time to stop using Google for traffic and list-building purposes.

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chrisnos

9 years ago

Google rolls out something every week now. People need to stop studying "techniques" for ranking in Google, because today by the time you spend a year learning and getting good at something, Google shoots it down, and you've wasted a bunch of time acquiring skills and knowledge that are rendered useless.

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dddougal

9 years ago

I think we are reaching a turning point. My prediction is that SEO will be a thing of the past soon.

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Ben West 9 years ago

Originally Posted by dddougal

I think we are reaching a turning point. My prediction is that SEO will be a thing of the past soon.

SEO will never be a thing of the past. As long as Google are using ranking factors to define what make one websites better than another in their eyes, there is always optimisation to be done.
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amaxlite

9 years ago

I agree SEO isn't a stable, reliable biz model, but while my site was ranking it was a nice income stream. I have been searching & learning about more reliable ways to earn in the mean time. I also don't think SEO will become a thing of the past... it will always be here as long as Google is alive. Just like Google has to adapt so will people who do SEO.

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sonamathews

9 years ago

Well we call in phantom update. It is rolling out and hitting most of the site sand blogs that offering how to solutions.

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John Romaine

9 years ago

There appears to have been *something* going on yesterday.

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randomzeus

9 years ago

No no, SEO dies only for quitters. But not generally. And yes, I noticed that there has been some recent dancing with Google - more so than usual.

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nexxonyxx

9 years ago

I haven't checked traffic, but I have heard others have experienced that.

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Hemanth Malli

9 years ago

Originally Posted by amaxlite

I have a site that has been receiving consistent organic traffic for over a year now, but it just plummeted today. Seems like alot of the ranking pages disappeared from the search. I think it may be related to the new ranking signal in effect regarding mobile friendliness(which my site is not). Any other ideas or anyone else notice anything w/ their websites?

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Yes, Google roll out with a phantom update. This update seems to have had a broad impact, but Google didn't reveal any specifics about the nature of the signals involved.

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alvinchua91

9 years ago

If your site is not mobile-friendly, you want to solve that issue first since you can already identify it immediately.

yes there are more Google dances recently, but there is no official algorithm updates (though Google does update frequently on their end without announcements).

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mkgg

9 years ago

Yeah, my site ranking improved all of a sudden so i thought so too

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amaxlite

9 years ago

After checking my Google Webmaster accnt I think Google may have penalized my site specifically for having hotlink protection on images. Anyone have experience w/ this? There was an option to submit a reconsideration request but I'm still not sure if that is the issue or not. I'm just surprised they did not send a notification to me about it & I had to dig through my webmasters account to find that. They also mention that if your site is not optimized for mobile then it shouldn't affect Desktop traffic... but my site seems to have taken a hit on both platforms meaning it can't be b/c of the mobile-friendly ranking signal.

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amaxlite

9 years ago

Update:

I'm seeing traffic slowly being restored and some of the pages going back up in rankings. It seems Google penalized my site earlier and set a manual action against my website due to "Image Mismatch" in the search results. I simply turned off my hotlink protection & sent a review req, and I believe they are restoring my site. They haven't sent me any official notice yet though. I'll probably enable hotlink protection through htaccess and simply allow google hotlinking since ~90% of my traffic comes from there. There other ~10% come from direct and bing/yahoo searches.

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shuvayu8

9 years ago

Yes Google did roll out an update, but its not panda

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