Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
August update i was down, Decmeber up, Feb down again only time will tell when its going to be up....
Take my advise dont watse ur time emailing google, you will get a canned response. I have been through this alot of times now. You just have to wait and wait....nothing more you can do.
It looks like this update is going to stick as it has the most pages. But can also revert back...but for time being its gonna stick. :(
It looks like this update is going to stick as it has the most pages. But can also revert back...but for time being its gonna stick. :(
Well, if it hasn't changed by Monday I'm going out to buy a black hat.
If irrelevant junk is what Google wants then irrelevant junk is what it's gonna get. :-(
After 5 years of consistent, good, search results ranking, my site as almost disappeared - not even first when search on my company name.
This is absurd..Is there an email address at Google to ask if my site has been penalized for some reason?
Ditto
Cant find my site by typing in the site name!What is going on?
Same with one of my site.
Current Scenario:
The same thing is happening to one of my 4 year old authority whitehat site which until today was ranking tremendously high. Now when I type the site name, i see only the main page placed at around 15th position (was 1st before with a cluster) and on the second page I see a cluster with "More Results from this site" for this same site. [My settings are 100 results per page]. I also tried checking several of my top keywords and they all have gone very down in the serps. Even when I type in the exact title of my home page with the sitename, its 5th. Has it been sandboxed?
This site is a sub-domain of my main site. All other sub-domains are perfectly fine and not much changes. Each sub-domains have tons of good backlinks.
Past Scenario:
One of my other site (not one of above) started appearing way down for the site name a few months back during some update. Now it has started appearing higher than before. It was 30th previously. Now it is around 5th. It always used to be 1st before that update a few months back.
I am not at all impressed with this update. First the sandbox, now this ugly update. Whats next? And when the hell are they getting the held-up sites out of the sandbox?
As I mentioned, site dropped almost off the listings for search terms that I have been #1 for for 5 years...
This is when I am search using IE6.0
Just for grins I switch to Firefox and my search results appear normal - me at #1 position.. I tried this with 5 different searches and is consistent.
What's going on with this?
Don't forget though that these results will tend to dance around a little and then stabilise. However, if you still can't find your site when you type the domain after a couple of days, then you are most likely under a penalty.
i dont know what google is up to but it looks like its giving turns on which site will rule serps.
Yeah, that sums it up. I think Google's goals and my goals are the same: to provide valuable, relevant content for my visitors. I've experienced some setbacks with this update, but I'm in it for the long haul and I'm sure it will balance out eventually.
My biggest income site has had a drop in Google referrals, down to 10% of what it had been getting lately. At the same time, 2 of my other sites are experiencing a dramatic increase in traffic. One thing for sure, this too will change.
Man I'm glad I diversified my sites. I think I will work on diverifying some more...
ps - yesterday was groundhog day...
I've noticed a whole bunch of sites dropped off the SERPs
Just an idea! Christmas and jan sales gone - less focus on required cos everyone's broke.
My 4 yr old authority site (1,000's of pages) is not ranking for anything at all this morning (not even company name)
AND google is back to showing 3x results for the site:
This happened before - then it went back to normal # of pages returned
Don't they usually do this on weekends?
