Anyone noticing ranking drop today?

I notice too, one of my site was hit a few hours ago, maybe is releasing announced penguin today. Will see!

What do you mean by white hat? If you are posting links to your site, then that is not white hat. Google does not think of that as proper. You are supposed to wait for others to link to you naturally, otherwise you are using methods that Google does not approve of.

Yes I'm seeing a downward trend with my affiliate sites at the moment, however there were quite a few changes in the last weeks:

1) I had a portion of domains deindex, though mostly weak domains my affiliate sites received quite a few links from exactly these sites so that could be a reason for the drop

2) I replaced the homepage with a lengthy 2000 word article, however I heavily monetized that page with 15 affiliate links so maybe that has to do with it?

3) I just started a new batch of link building for the whole set of sites so maybe it's just dancing of keywords before they move up again, a trend that I see quite often.

Normally these Amazon sites of mine are a perfect indication of Google updates and such as they're always very stable but too much happened in the past weeks.

Overall I do see a bit of a downward trend though most of my clients aren't affiliate ones, and it could have to do with the loss of some domains so still hard to say what's going on.

The internet is now closed for business...

I thought today's update was significant. It might be another panda but also be penguin that everybody is waiting for. After all this is SEO section...

Aint that the truth. Nothink.

Of course you know somewhere in a parallel forum, someone is asking if other sites
are moving up.

Nobody at the WF posts much about a massive move up. That means only 50% of the
webmasters must post here, because the other 50% saw a rise in rankings.

Paul

In addition to what I posted earlier in this thread about a set of 9 Amazon sites where I build a new batch of links, the homepages that I replaced with heavily monetized ones and a few deindexations of domains I took the 2 domains out of 9 that were affected much worse then the rest a bit closer under the loop:

- Domain 1: Nothing to see there, bit stunned why it lost a lot of traffic as it's setup in an identical way as the 8 other ones

- Domain 2: Which really had some huge drops, turns out to be a victim of a negative SEO campaign, all of a sudden 50 percent of links have the main keyword anchor text and in total it now has 5000+ links from about 350 referring domains opposed to links from about 50 domains that I placed myself.

Part of the game I guess.

Thanks for that post, that might explain the smallish overall drops on my affiliate sites. At least small enough to not worry about too much.

Seems instead of looking at the site as a whole it focuses more at the quality of individual pages, eg crappy 300-500 word reviews just meant as filler content won't cut it anymore.

He could have got hit by the latest panda update. Most likely.