Has Anyone's Site Fallen Recently?

Is there a update of some sort happening?

[zylstra]

Although I haven't seen a lot of posts recently about rearrangement of the Google results, my site dropped drastically today. It has been ranked third for a competitive two-word phrase for a year, and now it is 40th or so. The site has not been changed and the pank rank has not changed. I have no links to farms, no hidden text, etc. I believe that the results for the two-word phrase other than my site have not changed.

Has anyone had this happen to them recently? Did Google all of a sudden decide to penalize me for something that I don't know about?

Strangely, I received a notice today that an Adsense account that provides ads for a completely unrelated site that I also own was terminated due to not following the conditions exactly. Would Google search out another site that I own and knock it down? I don't think that this is the case since my other sites weren't penalized yet.

Thanks for any light you can shed on this,
Roel

[ThomasB]

I saw a decrease of traffic by 30% on thuesday, but it's now up again.
I don't know why, but I'm quite happy that everything is good again.

[Jakpot]

The Googlers are playing with their knobs

[James_Dale]

zylstra,

Hover your pointer over the SERPs. Does this drop in rankings coincide with tracking codes in the status bar?

[zylstra]

James_Dale,

Nope, no tracking codes.

-Roel

[erikv]

Welcome to the club. My site has fallen since mid-August and it still isn't up again, whatever I try--and I have tried every trick in the book (no spamming--maybe I should try that as well...).

[martinibuster]

Hey cool!

My sites went up, maybe there really was some kind of an update! I love these results. Google keeps getting better and better. Love it.

[coldgold]

Yes - My site has multiple pages that were in the top 10 results for various keywords/phrases and has been dropping slowly since July - August... Have no idea why, have not modified those pages much at all, although have been adding new pages to the site.

[skipfactor]

I'm seeing some allinanchor & corresponding SERP movement.