August 21st update? Where? Are these Algo change tools any good or was Google warming up?

My rank drop from 2 hours ago , over 50% keywords drop page 1 to page 2 or 3

my rank is still the same, nothing changed for me

I'm currently tracking about 5-6 sites and they are all going strong.
No fluctuations at all over the past 30 days.

I'm ranking for keywords (1st-3rd page listing) that I wasn't previously ranking for at all (wasn't in first 300 pages)

Tracking
85 Keywords
3.5mil Exact Search
High Comp

There was a slight fluctuation on and around the 20th. Nothing major in terms of bounce.
+/- 1 Position For Page 1 Listings
+/- 3 Positions For Page 2+

Seemed to be very neutral in terms of losses or gains. More to the side of gains really. As by today any loses have been recovered and any gains have remained or improved.
Nothing more then an average day to be honest.

any information about this update? I see my keywords still drop

I am still recovering from a manual review from a month ago. I see in webmaster tools, under the new manual actions tab, I had two sites with minor pentalies. The pentalies have vanished and my sites are coming back to the top of the first page again.

As for the the 21st of August, I do see one site dropping 20% traffic.....nothing to get alarmed about yet.

I have no paid links......but I did build several myself.

The one site affected is not mobile friendly....."Mobile, the time is now" Google just pumped out at the beginning of the summer.

I did recently try to optimize for a key word on that sites home page.

Too many variables to figure out what this one is.

All I know, the past 60 days have been a real downward slide for me, and it seems to have bottomed out in the past couple of weeks. I hope this is the end of the bleeding. I lost most of my recent purchases from Flippa.

Not giving up yet.

50% loss of traffic from 23rd..

Hard time for me..

I have only noticed how much longer it is taking for rankings to improved when building quality pr links, seems like things have been frozen for a few months now. It use to be like clock work, rankings would jump 7-14 days after links were found..

I noticed a change, and like others I think it was partly to do with number of affiliate links. I used a price comparison plugin that generated 4 links per retailer. I would sometimes have 16 links on a page just from this. I removed the plugin and traffic improved.

I also recommend anyone to find out which links have the best ctr, keep them, ditch the others and you'll hardly notice a difference in ctr but you will when it comes to ranking.

Massive traffic drop for one of my Amazon sites. Looks like it started 24th and continued downhill since then. It's only peanuts (maybe £20) a day. Traffic down from 1000 uniques to 200 uniques per day. Definitely something happened, but I know not what. There's been a UK Bank Holiday so I'd expect a drop in traffic for this site, but not to this extent.

I've looked at 200 keywords over 4 domains - some information pages and some affiliate pages - and I can't see anything that looks like a Google update on or around the 21st.

All in all my results are neutral, although while looking through my graphs I do see that the majority of my sites did shift a bit around that timeframe. Some went up and some went down so the overall effect has been neutral. I should add that these shifts were roughly +-2/3. So nothing major to cry about.

For this site all that has ever been dones is maybe 15 blog comments lol. However it did have an almost EMD. Another site of mine with an EMD (almost) lso dropped a couple pages, but its about a month old so yeh. Im guessing its do to with EMDs can anyone else share information about there emd's

Is this confirm or not?

a website's traffic went down 10% on 21st August and 30% for 26th August...

guys Digging it more and more... but could not find any specific reason... so far 40% keywords ranking is Good to go... rest 60% of keywords ranking is in process

Hi Guys, what is exact this update is. Can you provide me more information about it. I lost traffic on my 4 domain.

My bad guys, we just transferred domains.

This is the new Google Algorithm Updates - August 21st

No change yet for me

What changes did you people make to you website before that?

I saw a drop in traffic on 24th.

The graph just dipped

2 changes i made prior were:
added a testimonial and a pinterest link to the website.

Since July mid update nothing has changed for my websites (traffic and rankings), everything is stable and stay's where they are, not even positive moment from past 1.5 months. For 35+ keywords (tax niche) are on the 2nd page and they have stuck their.

I noticed that, too, but have not noticed any changes in serps (other than the usual). You would normally see this forum (and others) swamp with threads, but that simply wasn't the case.

Anyone know the reason of SERP drop? I lost over 90% traffic

It would help answer the question if you shared more info on your website or the activities you did with or towards your site in the last few days before the drop in traffic.

Hello,

We recently changed domains 4.5 months ago and saw about a 35% drop in traffic starting on 8/25. Could this update be targeting new domains? Below are post I have found about individuals with newer domains experiencing ranking loss.

-My traffic droped from an average of 50 visits per day to just 1 - 2 per day. My blog is 8 months old and I was shocked when I saw the drop. Here is a screen shot of my traffic drop. If anyone Can Hlp me I will be really greatfull !

-From what I can tell, a lot of the sites that were affected were either new or had changed domains in the last few months.

-You could be right. My 5 month old website that saw 40% drop in traffic has category/postname url structure.

-I have Seen Drop in the Traffic by 10% in my Blog (1 year old)

-My site (5 months old) traffic is dropped by 90% will it recover or not?

-So was there a penguin update or not??? I have one site that lost it rankings but that site was pretty new IMHO, so I gues it was because of the young age.

-On one particular website, I have noticed about a 75% drop in my traffic since about the 21st. To put that in perspective, whereas I was getting about 550-750 visitors a day…I am now getting around 150ish. My site was created in May of this year.

-something whacky is going on saw really old serps come back

-Huge drop in traffic lost almost 20% traffic today (8 months old)

I agree with the "new website" getting hit theory. All of my older sites (those older than a year) are doing fine....no change. However, a site I built 2 months ago, was ranking on 2nd and 3rd page for good terms, and I was getting around 30 uniques a day. That is until August 22nd when it has now gone down to not ranking anywhere (still indexed though), and 1 visitor a day. No crazy link building on this site so I'm positive I didn't hit any kind of link building filter. Must be some sort of update related to newer domains/sites.

Im tracking 50 keywords on about 10 different sites, old and new sites havent seen much changes... seeing more improvements then declines.

my website 5 months old , traffic in august (before 23-8) double June .
I check Webmastertool and see 404 error (affiliate links) . I just add rel=nofollow , and redirect 404 to homepage .

What I see is an algorithm hit against "high street competing" affiliate sites (not all affiliate sites) just those competing with Amazon, Etsy etc. in their local market. The big boys Amazon, Ebay, Etsy etc. seem to be the big winners when this wave hits, taking back the 1-5 spaces in the serps for many counts. Started back in June, got a respite beginning of August, took another hit almost carbon copy like June around the 21st to 26th August.

To me, it looks like some kind of rollback to the June hit. I expect sites hit by this will come back to a degree. But another month down the line will succumb to the big boys again. The question is - what can these sites do in the meantime to avert another hit? Seems to me this one is down to site authority/age.

I do see this as a narrow (ish) hit, though. Mostly what you might describe as "high street retail goods". However, it does seem to have been pushed out through the world and particularly hits sites attempting sales outside of their arena. Guesswork, of course, but I'm laying it down here for historic value

I like Dennis's idea of trying these sites with some posts not using any outside affiliate links. For my site that got hit, I'm blatantly guilty of affiliate links on every page (not over the top amounts of outbounds and I'd rate my content as pretty good). I've started putting out good content without any outbound aff links to see if it does anything. I've also been using a geo-targeting tool, Go2geo, that has been extremely good in helping me target aff offers to different geo traffic, but this is just an aside at this stage. I do wonder though, because I've definitely lost a lot of particularly country specific traffic. (not blaming the plugin at all!)

The SERPS did change for most of the keywords in niche with some huge+old websites on the first page and one of them with 3 listings. Perhaps it was a change in algo that favored big, authority websites.

There is a Project being done by all the affected websites to find the common factor that led to their website being affected by the 21 August onwards algo update. You can join it on https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...ITXBMOHc#gid=0

Well.. i have seen a good change in keyword ranking. I was ranking on the 7th page before Aug 20. But after that my keywords are on the 1st and 2nd page. The traffic has also fluctuated before it was not much. But now more traffic is coming. I don't get is was it a update or just experimentation going on.

My IM sites made through it, no change in position. But my news site got hit, all sites are more than one year old