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I've noticed quite a bit of movement in the KWs I track. Several competitors have fallen completely out and others have moved up. I found this article on webpronews.com:

www[dot]webpronews[dot]com/webmasters-suspect-a-significant-google-algorithm-update-just-happened-2012-08

Sorry, I don't have enough posts to include a link.

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kiliki

14 years ago

Originally Posted by snydie22

I've noticed quite a bit of movement in the KWs I track. Several competitors have fallen completely out and others have moved up. I found this article on webpronews.com:

www[dot]webpronews[dot]com/webmasters-suspect-a-significant-google-algorithm-update-just-happened-2012-08

Sorry, I don't have enough posts to include a link.

Thanks for the replay. Today (30th) definitely verified something's changed. One of my main keywords dropped 4 pages back, and others shifted up and down where they normally don't move much. I suspect we'll hear a lot news soon.

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Nelapsi

14 years ago

You will probably notice GWT also applied links that were indexed by them as well, just normal business.

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Mike Anthony 14 years ago

Heres snydies link

Webmasters Suspect A Significant Google Algorithm Update Just Happened | WebProNews

Don't know if there is anything to it though
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- kiliki 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Mike Anthony
  
  Heres snydies link
  
  Webmasters Suspect A Significant Google Algorithm Update Just Happened | WebProNews
  
  Don't know if there is anything to it though
  
  I saw that too.. As of this morning (30th) they haven't posted any updates there yet.
  
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kiliki 14 years ago

Originally Posted by Nelapsi

You will probably notice GWT also applied links that were indexed by them as well, just normal business.

Excuse my ignorance, but what is GWT? :confused:
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- Mr.H 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by kiliki
  
  Excuse my ignorance, but what is GWT? :confused:
  
  Google Webmaster Tools
  
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  kiliki 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Mr.H
  
  Google Webmaster Tools
  
  Ugghh, I should have known that....:p
  
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StewartJ

14 years ago

I am tracking over 200 keywords across different domains and I am seeing some shifting but nothing out of the ordinary to suspect a "major" algo change

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DNAWRealm

Banned 14 years ago

Seemed to have lost ALOT of google images based traffic today.. Seems odd

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kiliki 14 years ago

Originally Posted by DNAWRealm

Seemed to have lost ALOT of google images based traffic today.. Seems odd

interesting, I hadn't looked at that yet. Thanks for the heads up!
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MikeFriedman

14 years ago

Webpronews sucks. They probably based that article on this thread.

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kiliki 14 years ago

Originally Posted by MikeFriedman

Webpronews sucks. They probably based that article on this thread.

Hahaha ..Sorry, that's funny! :p
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DeskCoder 14 years ago

Originally Posted by MikeFriedman

Webpronews sucks. They probably based that article on this thread.

That's what I was thinking. If there was a news article for every one of these threads that got started ... damn!

Dibs! Just got an idea for a new website.
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Samung19

14 years ago

No ranking change for me, although I heard an adjustment was coming.

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K Mec

14 years ago

I checked my site. I am still on 2nd sweet spot.

No prob for me.

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IprovideSEO

14 years ago

Hey Kiliki,

I posted about this too and just got hate, but yes one of my websites that I track had a HUGE decline in over 40 keywords that were all ranking from #2-37 spot and went completely off the map. Haven't received an email from Google about a spam review or anything so I don't know what could have happened.

I do the same linkbuilding for all of my websites and diversify the anchor text so that the natural URL is first and the brand name is 2nd most widely used anchor text. Heck even "Click Here" is the 3rd most used anchor text, so I have no idea what happened with the rankings.

Hopefully they come back next week and no one else experiences this much decline

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kiliki

14 years ago

Originally Posted by IprovideSEO

Hey Kiliki,

I posted about this too and just got hate, but yes one of my websites that I track had a HUGE decline in over 40 keywords that were all ranking from #2-37 spot and went completely off the map. Haven't received an email from Google about a spam review or anything so I don't know what could have happened.

I do the same linkbuilding for all of my websites and diversify the anchor text so that the natural URL is first and the brand name is 2nd most widely used anchor text. Heck even "Click Here" is the 3rd most used anchor text, so I have no idea what happened with the rankings.

Hopefully they come back next week and no one else experiences this much decline

Thanks for the info. Someone posted in this thread to look into removing sitewide links. I think that could be one of my problems. The update must have been something very specific. I've asked this same question on more than 1 seo forum and enough people saw big enough shifts that indicate there was something updated. I wonder if Google is not mentioning anything about it specifically because it was a super targeted update and an easy tweak that SEO's could fix quickly? Out of 40-50 main keywords I optimize, only 1 was hit hard. Unfortunately it was the one I was working hardest on. Now that I think about it, my desperation to rank that keyterm may have clouded my judgement as to what was white hat or gray hat...

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Danny Cutts

14 years ago

I have seen a bit of movement over the last few days all in the right direction though :-)

Danny

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WraithSarko

14 years ago

yes, HUGE movement yesterday...it must have been the Taco Bell

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daksh

14 years ago

Yes you right on 29th august Google places ranking a little bit had been changed but on 1st September Google place ranking a lot of keyword have been changed. My mostly business keyword has been down. And which keywords had been facing problem today that keyword are on top position on Google places. My keyword is”urgent care Las Vegas”(url is 1worldmedicine.com)was on 3 positions on Google place but now it is found on 12 positions on Google places. And also one of my keyword “dental care Las Vegas” were not found today but today it is on 1 position on Google places I don’t understand what the Google has updated. I am dam sure that something has been updated on Google places world.

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Peep

14 years ago

I noticed increase of visitors from "G" image search on a few of my sites for that same time period.

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karismasand

14 years ago

Hi,

On 8/28/2012on of my site that rank with about 17 keywords in page 1 or 2 was hit by a G update. 16 Keyword was send on page 400+ and just 1 keyword remain on the first page.

After i remove some links and change the anchors to other the site come back on 9/02.2012.

Tips: remove all Site Wide Links

Good Luck!

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daksh 14 years ago

thanx for the sharing nice stuff...
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daksh

14 years ago

Originally Posted by karismasand

Hi,

On 8/28/2012on of my site that rank with about 17 keywords in page 1 or 2 was hit by a G update. 16 Keyword was send on page 400+ and just 1 keyword remain on the first page.

After i remove some links and change the anchors to other the site come back on 9/02.2012.

Tips: remove all Site Wide Links

Good Luck!

thanx for the sharing nice stuff

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kiliki

14 years ago

Originally Posted by karismasand

Hi,

On 8/28/2012on of my site that rank with about 17 keywords in page 1 or 2 was hit by a G update. 16 Keyword was send on page 400+ and just 1 keyword remain on the first page.

After i remove some links and change the anchors to other the site come back on 9/02.2012.

Tips: remove all Site Wide Links

Good Luck!

Thanks for the tip! I'll definitely try that!

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Vivers

14 years ago

I did have some big moves but not sure why until you mentioned/ questioned this?

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ownergolan

14 years ago

Noticed a change also, mainly positive. By trying to figure out what caused the change, I could tell it's probably about content.

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SerenaGomez

14 years ago

No, I didn't experience any major change.

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estz

14 years ago

Have noticed an update but its just a bog standard update. I find these type of threads funny because the people who tend to post about loosing rank etc are obviously using very spammy techniques, I actually look forward to google algo updates and changes purely because I know I'm only going to move upwards.

Just make sure you aren't doing anything spammy and trying to cheat the system and you will be fine!

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kiliki

14 years ago

Originally Posted by estz

Have noticed an update but its just a bog standard update. I find these type of threads funny because the people who tend to post about loosing rank etc are obviously using very spammy techniques, I actually look forward to google algo updates and changes purely because I know I'm only going to move upwards.

Just make sure you aren't doing anything spammy and trying to cheat the system and you will be fine!

I will definitely stay away from anything even considered Gray Hat (Since even the color Gray contains a little bit of black in it). I personally am not doing anything spammy, but I am taking over doing SEO work for another team that used to buy a ton of links and got slammed hard by panda and penguin originally. I thought I was on the right track to recovery, but I guess there's more for me to look into.
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TheBlueWizard

14 years ago

Definitely saw this as well for a great deal of my sites. All positive movement as well.

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cooler1

14 years ago

Are site wide links only links which link out to external sites from every page on your site or are inner links also counted? For example, if you link to your homepage URL from every post on your post is that considered as not good post Penguin.

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