Since Google seems broken, should we make changes? Sit tight?

Been sitting for some time....

[textex]

As we all know, Google is so unstable and seemingly broken.

We took some big hits. Had some sites come back real strong for a week or two only to slowly nosedive.

We have not made any major changes except removing some old links.

Are people making changes? Or sitting tight hopeing we are going to see changes with Google?

We have been sitting tight...and are getting tired of sitting. But, making changes does not make sense if something is very broken.

Our sites are very broken in Google...supplementals, canoncials, etc..

[lasko]

I've been monitoring all these posts for the past few days now as it seems many of you had been affected except me, until today.

For the past week or so nothing has happened in my area except for a few missing titles on some shared IP web sites.

Today though I'm seeing some big movements and shuffles in the SERPS's

One of my sites has just dropped for a certain keyphrase but remains high for other keyphrases.

I've not seen this kind of activity since florida.

I'll be sitting tight for now like I did with Florida when my site vanished for a few months, its not a good start to the weekend, at least the weather is good.

[Lorel]

When you have a seemingly healthy site that suddenly drops in rank for no reason then search the inurl command on google for hijackers (they usually attack PR 5 sites). First click on all links and see if they redirect to your site. If they do then run a server header checker on those links and look for 302 redirects (some 302 redirects are merely for tracking traffic and will have a session ID in the url or some other tracking code).

Check the url even if the site has captured your site in a frame as sometimes they have 302s also. If they have framed your site add a pop out of frames script on every page and use full urls on all site naviagation.

Some 302 hijackers do this to multiple pages on a site stealing PR and keyword rank of the affected site. If you find a hijacker use this command in google to see if they have more pages pointed at your site:

site:www.HijackersDomain.com YourSiteName

If you find 302s or even 301s then you need to report this to the host of the site, Google Spam, Google Adsense (if they use them) and any other advertiser they use and try and get them removed as it will quickly take your site down. When reporting to Google, et. al, look for more evidence of spam on their site and report that also as they may be doing this to everyone they link to. Re Google AdSense they have strict rules about using AdSense and breaking the law so read their rules and report any site using 302 redirects or any other sneaky methods to promote their site.

There is plenty of information on the internet on how stop this. search for stop 302 redirects.