July Update?

[Heywood_J]

Is it me or does it look like a significant update is going on at google. I am noticing a number of SERP changes for a few of my sites and they've been fluctuating for the past few days.

Anyone else noticing any major changes?

[union_jack]

hi i have seen no changes in my ranks, maybe a slight drop. However my site has gone from 450 back links to 3900 last night, but i am very disappointed as neither my pr or rankings have changed. Has anyone alos had this happen, also does google ever update pr after it has updated back links.

[Powdork]

Has anyone alos had this happen, also does google ever update pr after it has updated back links.

Everyone is having simlar (or opposite) experiences. For a while now there has been no correlation in the timing of any aspects that used to make up a complete update (backlinks, pr, rankings, and pages indexed)

[moishe]

Something odd is definitely going on, I am now in #1 position for my KW2-KW3 phrase, I was #3, unfortunately the phrase is useless without KW1 added to it and for that 3 word phrase, I still do not show up in the top 100. Definitely seeing odd backlinks on some DC's, and a loss of important ones, can only hope this is the start of a dance. My question is:

What the heck kinda music are they dancing to?

[bts111]

Yep, things are a bit weird in Google land.

[AthlonInside]

confirmed.

backlinks and pr update is always after the real update. after this, people will say, why the SERPs is the same? friends, the SERPs has changed BEFORE backlinks and PR update, not AFTER. That's why the subject of this thread is 'July Update?'

[union_jack]

If thats correct i have seen a drop in rankings despite going from 450 backlinks to 3900. That i find very disapointing as i have worked very hard on my links, i also have lots of content on my site, i do not use any cheats. my titels are not spammy. if increase in links doesnt work what does. Any ideas guys

[steveb]

If you are seeing an increase in links today, your links are very likely very low quality, or in some cases from a single domain. Whatever benefit their is from either of those, objectively it shouldn't be that much.

I see one site go from 118 backlinks to 6440. Those links (all from one domain) have been there for months, but now Google has decided to show them. It's not a sign of the domain being "better" today than yesterday.

[raptorix]

My backlinks are very strange, most of them are showing up first time, but some of my older back links are disappeared while they are from relevant high PR sites, i really don't understand this update :?

[sit2510]

Very weird backlink update...

Has anyone tried allinurl:www.yourdomain.com?

Also very interesting results, especially if your sites are old enough. Google seems to display much more results than it used to be...I think it could also help to explain more clearly why some sites or some pages get mysteriously higher favor and higher rankings from Google.

[claus]

>> from my perspective this is the end of the second week of a wierd shuffle in one of my SERPS

On July 9 i first observed some backlink oddities (missing expected backlinks), but then again, it was a company and an industry i had not researched before, and (as it was during a meeting) i hadn't got the time to do deeper research, so i discarded it as a "temporary glimpse" or something.

The ODP and Google dir backlink was there, nothing else, not even internals.

(Yep, a meeting without previous research. These things do happen out there.)