Are you being affected by this today's Google Update?

by DanielSP

Posted: 11 years ago 16 replies

I'm getting penalized by this one..

My best sites are getting down while some "tests" sites are getting better rankings. I can't understand Google.

Show TONS of subdomains of big sites that don't have even the haf quality articles as I do..

It's happening with many friends of mine too.

A Google Update Is Happening (Working On Confirmation)

An ongoing WebmasterWorld has a huge uptick in chatter around major ranking and search result fluctuation over the night. It seems from this and from all the complaints in the Google Webmaster Help forums that there is indeed some sort of update going on.

Is it Penguin, Panda, EMD, page layout or something else - or is it a wide-spread manual action or Google going after and devaluing a major link network - I do not know. But it does seem something has happened causing tons of webmasters and SEOs to take to the forums to complain.

This is fairly common days after I see an update brewing as I reported on Tuesday. It does seem like something is indeed rolling out and hopefully you guys benefited from it.

SERPs.com, SERP metrics and MozCast have all shown higher than normal Google fluctuation activity over the past few days as well.
Here are some comments from the WebmasterWorld thread over night:
Sure fire sign of a major update...

Seeing GIGANTIC drops this morning, woke up to 200 visitors over night, should be around 1200 by now. Server is fine. Europe appears to be asleep
Plus, as I said, there is a huge number of complaints from individual webmasters in the Google Webmaster Help forums.

So there seems to be a Google update happening. I will ping Google and see if I can get anything on the record. Stay tuned...

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#afected #google #today #update

Charles AK 11 years ago

my sites went up in the rankings today.
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JoeMack 11 years ago

Hi...

I haven't seen any major changes so far among my sites and blogs. I'm hoping that by doing everything "by the book" that I will minimize ranking fluctuations each time Google decided to update their algorithm.

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datingworld 11 years ago

No changes at all...
Was there any update today?
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World Marketing 11 years ago

Nothing has changed for me as of yet...I will keep you posted if I see them drop....
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PerformanceMan 11 years ago

Google updates every day.
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ChevyCam 11 years ago

My traffic increased a lot from search engines in these days
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Signal512 11 years ago

I have not seen a change in rankings for mine. Well, not on the down side. I have one blog that seems to have moved-up a couple of spots.
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- satrap 11 years ago
  
  I am seeing a few changes in ranking but nothing major yet. I dont knwo if its a coincidence or what.
  
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MikeFriedman 11 years ago

I'm not saying there wasn't an update, but the source for this is completely unreliable.
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paulgl

11 years ago

Originally Posted by DanielSP

You should get better friends.

Well, that means tons of people then are seeing their sites rise.
Not really, as any changes affect maybe 0.0001% of all searches...

Why do you think you have better quality than anyone else?
I don't want quality, I want answers.

Google does not care about your website, nor do they take
a personal interest in your business. The sooner people learn
that, the better. You take from google what you can get. And be
happy. If you don't like it, forget em. Go out and do what needs
to be done to YOUR business.

For each and every site that slips, another takes its place.

99.99999999999999% of webmasters do not see a slip. The
others, are on the WF. Or so it seems. I sure wish the webmasters
who take over your spots would come here and celebrate. Or
maybe, just maybe, they don't give a rat's behind because they
are taking care of their own business.

Paul

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Doug Pretorius 11 years ago

I only have 1 site that relies on SE traffic and position is down for probably 80% of the keywords it ranks for, up for the other 20%. Interestingly the keywords it's down for are long-tail, while it's up for most of its main keywords. So traffic is has barely changed.

I'm not worried about it though, every time there's a significant algo change my site drops a bit for a few days and then rebounds higher.

This constant up and down is why I've switched my traffic generation to social media. I find I have far more control.
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yukon Banned 11 years ago

I'm thinking something changed today, nothing drastic here but I'm seeing my best ranked keyword get bumped down to #2 & a lot of my old text search thumbnail images are back up in the SERPs after being gone for a while (I figured they would come back on their own). In GWT that same page/keyword has held position 1.10 for a few years.

I think Google is switching back & forth between two algos, just because those old thumbnail images had the keywords stuffed, they ranked just fine forever, then disappeared, now they're back like nothing ever happened (still stuffed).

I'm holding steady, not changing course Cap'n.
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deezn 11 years ago

Sites that were penalized under Penguin jumped up today. Weird.

I'm talking sites that were delisted for one keyword, that popped up to 400, now sitting at 300

Haha, not the greatest 25% jump, but still better than nothing. I keep them around just in case
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yukon Banned 11 years ago

Already bounced back to #1 for my best organic keyword.

The stuffed thumbnail images are still showing in text search, lol, I stuffed those a long time ago & just left them because there's so many of them (almost 1k pages, 1 image per page) I'm not about to take the time to do that many manual edits. If they rank, fine, If not fine. I still have two pages (two different domains) ranked for that keyword. I can defiantly see the difference in traffic volume between positions #1 & #2.

I still think Google made some changes today, besides usual SERP movement.

I guess I need to do something extra, that page that bumped me is right on my azz for singular & plural of the keyword. I haven't posted any new pages on this ranked page/domain for over a year (lol, gravy job).
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