Anyone noticing any weird google stats today?
Like, your site dropping from listings on certain keywords you used to score well with, then coming back.
Or just an overall real low day of Google referrals?
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Anyone noticing any weird google stats today?
Like, your site dropping from listings on certain keywords you used to score well with, then coming back.
Or just an overall real low day of Google referrals?
same here.
My site was listed on the 1st page for a keyword for several months now, then all of a sudden, its not even listed for the keyword now.. anyone with any ideas?
Google made some algorithm changes, which they started to apply last night...
- Shawn
Yah, I'm reading the huge thread over at WebmasterWorld now.
Just like their update back in July, which eventually was fine.
I'm not worried, yet. :)
Traffic over all my sites is down almost 50%, which happened last time also. There's also a lot of absolute garbage that comes up on search search phrases, undebatable garbage.
Does this mean there could be an update soon?
That's what is going on, a Google update.
Problem is that it appears they're changing their algorithm, and using old data. However, this has happened before, and they will bring the new data in slowly over 3 or 4 days.
So, I won't post here again until the update is done.
The last time something this weird happened as in July.
This annoys me. I lose major money when traffic drops like this.
I was wondering when I was reading this and also all the "decreased adsense earnings" stuff what it must be like to be in your situation where you depend on it all so much for your income. You must live in constant fear. I think I would!Quote:
Originally posted by Chris
This annoys me. I lose major money when traffic drops like this.
Its why I save most of what I bring in.
How much damage would it cause you if google was down (for whatever reason) for a month?
Crazy amounts. $40k probably.
WOW... Over the average yearly salerey...
I'm still having problems promoting my site on google... I get over 10 times as many visiors from MSN search...
I haven't noticed any difference actually...
I've noticed a slight drop in visitors, but not from Google I think, more general drop... At least I think so... *goes to double-check*
I've dropped from the first page of my target keyword to the second page- like a drop of 7 or 8 or something. My traffic is a lot lower, even taking in account that it's a weekend (weekend traffic is lower for my site).
Hopefully they'll fiddle around with it more.
Well, I'm certain we will see more changes as far as the SERPs are concerned. The results seem terrible at the moment.
Actually I take that last comment back. They're not terrible, just a bit different. I can't quite get my head around it.
As far as I can see the results seem to be a bit more stable now (compared with before!). So, can anyone spot any patterns in the new results or fashion an idea as to what's going on or what the change is?
It's probably way too early to even be thinking about figuring out such things. The results will probably be completely different when I wake up tomorrow morning!
We can only hope. :oQuote:
Originally posted by chromate
The results will probably be completely different when I wake up tomorrow morning!
What is really throwing me for a loop is the fact that its not a case of there being two different indexes -- every datacenter is a little bit different.
I didn't even notice that. The majority show me down a bit; only one seems to have the same listing as before this change.
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Originally posted by lo0ol
I've dropped from the first page of my target keyword to the second page- like a drop of 7 or 8 or something. My traffic is a lot lower, even taking in account that it's a weekend (weekend traffic is lower for my site).
Hopefully they'll fiddle around with it more.
My weekend traffic is always slightly lower... By about 5-10%
Well, I woke up this morning to find that I've gone from page 4 in the SERPs to ranking #3 from the top :) Not complaining... Still, with the pace of change, I could be non existent in the next 10 minutes. Who knows?
After reading more of the annoying chaos at WebmasterWorld, GoogleGuy may be hinting that the update is about over. I hope not... there is still garbage results for certain SERPs.
Well, no disrespect to everyone else, but I hope they don't change too much. Ranking #3 my traffic has rocketed, along with my adsense earnings! I'm quite excited as it's well exceeded my expectations. My CTR is just fantastic. Can't believe it.
There hasn't been any changes for a while now (since the start of today for my search terms). So maybe it is coming to an end. Though I though GoogleGuy said that he though there might be something introduced tomorrow?
It's just a waiting game. Hope everyone comes out of it OK in the end! Particularly Chris as he relies on it so much... Fingers crossed.
i notice alot of changes it just confuses me more :D
I went from the 7th place to the 2nd so I'm not complaining, but I also don't have anything to lose or gain really. It's just for testing purposes ...
Backlinks seem to be updated on -va and -zu. Unfortunately this doesn't seem to change search listings. Hopefully this will change before everything settles down. :\
I'm not in the first 10,000 for the keyword I target... Google sucks unless you are the first to expliot the keyword...
inka, that's true. Though my listings look exactly the same this morning. GoogleGuy just said that they have some "minor" data to introduce maybe today. But apart from that, I think it's pretty close to being over.
Though, some of the listing just don't seem right still.
Things definitely aren't right.
so we had 2 updates this month ? or was there a mini update at the beginning of this month ?
I'm getting higher positions for my games but all my category pages have gone down dramatically and the homepage still isnt listed for basically any relevant term...
I'm at where I was like 2 months ago. 2 months of slow progress is gone in a day. :\
And the sites above me are rather worthless.
Has anyone noticed any change today? There seems to have hardly been any?
I haven't noticed anything unfortunately:(
Get off you segway and stop these google enginereers recking havoc the boss of google!
Backlinks were updated on my Google, but strangely have reverted back to the old version. I assume this means they're still tinkering.
va datacenters had changed backlinks for me...
On this thread of websites no longer coming up under their keywords: I have found (in my area of interest) that it is us small guys that have been knocked way down or off altogether and replaced almost exclusively by large corporate, commercial sites. It is not simply an old cache as I have monitored my placement carefully over the previous year and the google database never dubplicated this abberation on an earlier date. Specifically I had worked my way up from #240 to #3 under the keyword phrase "rocking chairs". All of my primary competitors were in the top 50. None of us were even in the top 100 as of Sunday morning. I believe that one of the primary reasons that google has been successful is that we all felt they tried to the best of their ability to maintain an even playing field. If they loose that core credibility I for one will no longer use them or advertise with them.
Keywester - I agree completely. I've noticed similar issues as you have explained. Also, I still notice lots of completely bogus results. Results that make absolutely no sense whatsoever.
I have a PR 7 page that is no where to be found... most corporations don't get that high.