Was There A Large Update Mind April?

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Has anyone else seen major fluctuations in rankings since Mid april?

I was doing great for several websites (PBN posts, real social media posts, and guest posts) and then from about April 11th - April 17th all of my websites crashed to pages 6-8.

My top 2 anchors for each website are always the natural link, with www. and with http://www. as well as brand name. So anchor diversity is there with only about 5% keyword anchors.

The links are distributed throughout the website such as home, contact us, services, category pages etc.

Anyone else see similar things happen to their sites last month?
#search engine optimization #april #large #mind #update
  • Yes, I can see clearly lots of serp changes and flactuations here even in competive
    keywords. It smells a new Panda or Penguin algo update coming soon but I'm not
    sure. That might be some running tests at Google for some countries.

    It reminds me April 2012 before Penguin roll out when the serp was circulating in an hourly basis.
  • Must be that time of year, back to the drawing board
  • I think the update is referred to as the Panda Refresh. Here is some more information that I've found: Is Google Pushing Out The Softer Panda Update Now?
  • So was this update more focused on On-page optimization rather than links?
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    Was There A Large Update Mind April?

    Has anyone else seen major fluctuations in rankings since Mid april? I was doing great for several websites (PBN posts, real social media posts, and guest posts) and then from about April 11th - April 17th all of my websites crashed to pages 6-8.