Update Saga. Part 5

[Brett_Tabke]

What say you?

Over and done with?

All done all through?

[Dayo_UK]

Strange - I am not getting any problems accessing any part of Google.

[ssjxxx]

Same here. I can get to my www.google.com DC, but that's the only one I have been able to connect to so far this morning. Could it be that this signals the end of J3? (finally!)

-S

[fiu88]

oh dear...just when I saw our listings come back to where they were pre-jagger..

[sfgirl]

Colin H
"A post Christmas blitz may be on the cards for the google algo. This might be why the serps seems to be favouring big, established brands at present."

We are a big, established brand - been around for 10 years at same URL and are being hit by the update. Seems that pages comparing products are hit hardest, and individual product pages themselves are also slipping, despite recent SEO efforts (basic clean up, <H> tags, <alt> attributes + updated titles and descriptions and redone in css) - rolled out during Jagger update. A lot of our pages seemed to have started a big fall on 10/25.

The site is doing better than ever in Yahoo and MSN.

We do have canonical URL problems - not at the site level (www vs. non-www) but internal pages with 10 or more URLs for the same page. Cleaning this up and hoping for the best...

[sfgirl]

And our site at subdomain.example.com was hit the hardest of all. It has 1/2 the traffic of last year at this time , despite improvements to the site.

All of our SEO is very white hat by the way, and recently implemented, since there was not a whole lot of SEO before the Jagger update. Now basic SEO efforts + Jagger update seems to have made our sites dip in Google, but we're better off in Y & M.

[Pico_Train]

subdomain.domain.com is pretty much spam these days in Google's eyes.

[Kangol]

Yes,
But I see in first 20 SERPs for a competitive keyword I watch 7 spamy subdomain.domain.com...

[ssjxxx]

subdomain.domain.com is pretty much spam these days in Google's eyes.

Not true. I have several sites that are subdomains of the same domain. They all rank well and most receive a fair amount of traffic from G.

-S

[Pico_Train]

Good, keep your fingers crossed then.

[sfgirl]

interesting. Our most popular part of our main site lives at a subdomain too. That is where our product pages and product comparison pages live that are doing sucky since Jagger. We do have pages in there that are doing ok though, just not our most important ones (and the bulk of our site)...