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?

[soapystar]

Fact is, Google doesn't owe any of us a living; Google's job is to deliver the results that, in its opinion, searchers are looking for.

a one page subdomain that is simply a frame of another domain is googles idea of what the user is looking for? yeah right.!

[europeforvisitors]

a one page subdomain that is simply a frame of another domain is googles idea of what the user is looking for? yeah right.!

No, it's an example of "content spam" that Google needs to deal with. But it doesn't follow that the solution to content spam is to rank somebody's affiliate or order page in the top 10 for an information search.

[euroman]

<I've seen backlinks drop by about 25% but my rankings on keywords actually improved>
same here backlinks droped 50% but PR stays at 6 and my main keywords went sky high,well done G

[soapystar]

No, it's an example of "content spam" that Google needs to deal with. But it doesn't follow that the solution to content spam is to rank somebody's affiliate or order page in the top 10 for an information search.

an assumption not implied in my statement. Also not born out in reality.

i am pointing out the effect of the latest change. How is a one page subdomain frame in anyway content spam? There is simply no content. The effect is the focus of the shift even futher to ranking on anchor text and less on on-site content with runs in the opposite direction to your original statement and indeed your followup.

[webhound]

Another useless G "update". If you can call it that... Get back to the algo drawing board before everyone just gives up on you as a spam engine...

[wellzy]

My backlinks dropped 18%. I have a lot of weird ones (and lower PR) showing. No bother because it didn't affect my rankings or PR. Rankings is all I really care about anyway ;)

I wonder if it is supposed to be making it harder on us Webmasters to find quality links...

I didn't think anybody still used G to find those anyways (at least the backlink function)

wellzy

[Stefan]

It's a glitch.

These are oviously not the proper backlinks. Do yourself a favour and don't even look at them.

[troels nybo nielsen]

I agree, Stefan. I checked the backlinks for a couple of pages yesterday. Then I decided that this was useless and I would turn my back on it for a couple of days. I did not check more backlinks and I won't check any today. Perhaps tomorrow. Perhaps.

[Marcia]

I'm with Stefan on this.

There's a certain curiosity factor, something like watching TV to see buildings and freeways collapsing after a major earthquake, for whatever that's worth for those who enjoy such things. Then there's motion picture industry fabrications for public showing in films - which could well be what Google's showing us.

IMHO they're gaslighting us again.

[my3cents]

Something else I noticed...

since the end of may the site: search had been showing several strange urls that have never existed as well as several tracking urls. Now I am not seeing these urls in the index.

I am still seeing fully indexed pages that have been 301'd for quite a while and are showing title and description of the 404 error page.