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These were also visible for a short time yesterday on Google UK.
Is there an update in progress?
Does anyone else see any change?
A search for: my business name llc
returns...
position 1: form an llc site
position 2: some electricity site
(google's link to this site: [...] with no domain name)
position 3: my site with two sub-listings, one being eBay
postion 4: some directory site with a link title of "Find my business name LLC at domain.com Directory"
I have not seen results like these since, dare I say it, Florida.
That has been true for a good long while now, but what I saw yesterday involved far more notable changes than the patterns of the past six months or so. But I don't want to talk much more about it at this point since it may have been a glimpse of ether.
I'm seeing new competitors' new sites poping up for a change, one site is less than 3 months old.
Anyway
any specific DC where the changes are visible?
All the other sites I checked are unchanged.
I'm going to say with 95% confidence that something is happening...just not sure what yet. ;)
What led me to check the PageRank of my sites in the first place was the toolbar zeroed out for two sites and then returned to the original value (5).
I hope they clean up ALL the mess they have done here the last 2 month, with all that dublicated sites.
I just got a new G alert that listed the DMOZ listing - this is the second one I got (the first being when this dir update initally was released).
Must be that they had some hardware problems and hard to revert back to old data.
has anyone experienced this:
siteX is in categoryZ, in Google Directory, you do a "Search only in categoryZ" for siteX, and "did not match any documents" is the result.
all other sites in the category come out when searched for siteNAME only...
Now if I do the same thing in dmoz.org, siteX appears…
any ideas?
I've dropped from long time held positions 1 & 2 for about 100 pages and am now no higher than 8 for any.
I'm still seeing a few clicks for my pages because the ones that have replaced mine don't seem as relevant. Previously if I was 8th I'd see almost no clicks.
Didn't this happen just before Xmas last year?
One of my sites backlinks were set to 0 and I lost 1 pagerank. My interior pages seem to be fine though.
My PR remains the same (as shown by the green bar). Same with backlinks. I haven't tried to find what different data centers are saying though.
The thing is, it's not only my page dropping. The serps seem quite different although I must admit I haven't paid that much attention to sites below me.
If others don't see what I'm seeing over the next day or two, then I'll have to assume it's just my site and that I'm mistaken over the serps being quite different.
When searching for "m s word" (replace word with anything), the serps don't show titles with 'm s' in - they all seem to be ms.
Similarly for other letters.
Anybody else seeing that?
it's not usually adviseable to take much notice of googles backlinks. it could be a factor but they don't usually show them all and changes don't usually coincide with changes in the pages position in the serps.
backlinks are very important in googles algo. but the ones they show don't appear to be related to the ones they use in their calculations.
how are your other pages doing in the serps? if they too have lost ground but still show backlinks then you are probably safe looking elsewhere for the change in position.
It seems that all pages have lost ground. Interior pages backlinks have remained the same.
Maybe it is due to an algo change. I guess we always have to stay on our toes!
Again.
