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Has anyone else noticed Google relegating their site rankings?

by fred67
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Hi all, I'm just wondering how many of you have noticed your website Google ranking disappearing lately. A couple of my own have gone down to '0' lately and I notice other sites I regularly visit have lost theirs too.

It would be interesting to know if this is some Google trend filtering through as it has been gradual over the last month.

Cheers, Pete.
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  • Profile picture of the author affilorama-portal
    Google is being more strict in relation to content quality, as evidenced by their crackdown on the so-called content farms. While our sites may not be content farms, I would assume that they are applying the same content quality standards to all sites.

    So it behooves us to make sure that our content is really high quality in all aspects.

    In any case, such changes in ranking are to be expected whenever google changes its algorithm. Good quality sites will climb back up the SERPs again after a little bit of time. I have found this to be historically true.
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  • Profile picture of the author felixalbutra
    I also noticed that my friend. I found out that Squidoo's Page rank also goes down to PR7 from PR8.

    But my blog got a good shot since it was rank to PR 1. I noticed that Google is more strict in terms of ranking websites because last year, I was my previous blog rank PR3 in an instant after they made their PR updates.

    Anyway, we can't blame them because they are just making their feature better. And besides, content and linking farming is everywhere since Niche Blogging became phenomenon this past few days.

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    • Profile picture of the author fred67
      Originally Posted by felixalbutra View Post

      I also noticed that my friend. I found out that Squidoo's Page rank also goes down to PR7 from PR8.



      Anyway, we can't blame them because they are just making their feature better. And besides, content and linking farming is everywhere since Niche Blogging became phenomenon this past few days.
      Agreed - Link farming has probably had an undesired effect. My blog comments on the better ranking blogs I have shot through the roof, and most of them are not genuine comments - just spam :-(

      I'm not into link-exchange as such, but the very nature of my main website means that it 'does' link out to many sites without reciprocal links so maybe that has had a baring on recent low quality score. (Perhaps Google thinks I'm a link-farm <{:-)

      Oh Well - there ya go :-)
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        Originally Posted by fred67 View Post

        Agreed - Link farming has probably had an undesired effect. My blog comments on the better ranking blogs I have shot through the roof, and most of them are not genuine comments - just spam :-(

        I'm not into link-exchange as such, but the very nature of my main website means that it 'does' link out to many sites without reciprocal links so maybe that has had a baring on recent low quality score. (Perhaps Google thinks I'm a link-farm <{:-)

        Oh Well - there ya go :-)
        Yea, but you can't blame Google for anything related to comment link spam on your site.

        I'm sure they expect you to control the spam on your own site 100%, after all your the webmaster.

        If you don't keep the spam under control (mod. comments or disallow), then your putting yourself & your site in the same category of a spammer.

        If that spam points to a bad site (virus etc...) you helped make it possible.

        Not trying to be harsh here, just making a point, we all have 100% control of any link on our own sites. Maybe it's time for some housekeeping.

        Myself, most sites I remove the entire comment form from my sites theme (problem solved). I do have a couple blogs I allow comments on, but they get moderated by me & never go live without me reading them first.
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        • Profile picture of the author fred67
          Originally Posted by yukon View Post


          Myself, most sites I remove the entire comment form from my sites theme (problem solved). I do have a couple blogs I allow comments on, but they get moderated by me & never go live without me reading them first.
          Yep! I've been doing that on some of mine the last couple of weeks and it seems to be working. I've included a contact form instead which keeps the little bleeders at bay :rolleyes:

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

          Yea, but you can't blame Google for anything related to comment link spam on your site.

          I'm sure they expect you to control the spam on your own site 100%, after all your the webmaster.

          If you don't keep the spam under control (mod. comments or disallow), then your putting yourself & your site in the same category of a spammer.

          If that spam points to a bad site (virus etc...) you helped make it possible.

          Not trying to be harsh here, just making a point, we all have 100% control of any link on our own sites. Maybe it's time for some housekeeping.

          Myself, most sites I remove the entire comment form from my sites theme (problem solved). I do have a couple blogs I allow comments on, but they get moderated by me & never go live without me reading them first.
          You wanna know how many comments I've approved in the past year on the handful
          I allow comments? None. My wordpress I allow none. Blogspot I allow all, because
          google seems adept at killing spam. Occasionally 1 gets by. And it's spam. Deleted.

          Not having comments has not been detrimental to traffic, and that's all I care about.

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    I found the opposite. I've got sites that only ranked position one for 20 keywords now ranking for over 50 keywords.
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    • Profile picture of the author M Thompson
      There was a new algo rolled out on jan 26th, I've not seen any drops and my top ranking sites are still there.

      Haven't checked the one that are in the "fermentation" stage.
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  • Profile picture of the author mandark
    I'm not sure how the new algorithms work, but I like them so far - they have actually brought my ranking UP! (for my keywords, not my PR, which stayed the same)
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  • Profile picture of the author vinman
    Doing the basics is what always needed in SEO. The most important things like good contents and quality back links should not be ignored. If you doing the basics, don't worry about the SERP. The site will climb up even though it goes down due to algorithm changes.
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  • Profile picture of the author Allen Graves
    We haven't seen the "content farm" algorithm change yet...only the "scraper" change. I wish they would hurry and get it over with. Roll the dang thing out so we can decide what we have to do - if anything at all.

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  • Profile picture of the author Sam90
    One of my blogs that has several writers, new content daily, and quality backlinks, has went from a PR 3 to 0. Another financial blog of mine that I haven't updated in 6 months remains at a PR3. I'm still puzzled??
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  • Profile picture of the author Sarah Bosen
    I haven't noticed...
    But honestly, I'm terrible at this sort of thing :>
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      PR does not have to rise. It can stay the same, or go down.

      My PR has all stayed the same.

      My traffic has dropped ever so slightly. But the targeted visitors have
      seen what I think is a huge jump.

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    • Profile picture of the author FredJones
      What's being discussed? PR or SERP?

      I have not checked any of my PRs of late. It would become obvious with the Google toolbar, but this laptop of mine refuses to install it.

      As of SERP, I have noticed absolutely no change apart from my regular gradual upward movements. Well, maybe a few of my new pages jumped up but not sure whether it was because of ongoing SEO efforts or whether it was because of Google changes. I would suspect the former than the latter.
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  • Profile picture of the author TZ
    Sheesh.....must we go through this again?

    The PR bar is measurement of RELATIVITY, meaning that if your site is in a highly competitive niche you might see your "little green bar" go down as thousands and thousand of more domains go live tageting the same niche.

    If your niche is very much unique then you will see increases in PR if no other competition has lit up a domain, or added content on your niche.

    I've seen our blogs drop or increase in PR, yet the traffic is the same, or more if more content has been added recently.
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  • Profile picture of the author Aaron J Curtis
    Your better off getting rid of or taking little notice of the google PR thingy in you're toolbar, matt cutts himself has said that the PR thingy(my words) everyone loves so much doesn't reflect a sites overall ranking in google.

    Look, I've had webpages come up on the 1st page of google with 0 PR in that little visual thingy, I've actually hidden that PR thingy from view in the toolbar and I suggest you do the same.

    Unless you work for the big G, they'll never let you know the full story about how they're page ranking works, so don't waste another minute fixated on it.
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