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We have a CMS based site, on March 30 suddenly we lost almost all our traffic. Till March 30 we used to have 37k unique visitor a day, and in Abril we only had 7k unique visitors a day... same in May and June... and today we have recovered all visitors and all top positions in SERPs.
Since March 30 we did a LOT of changes to try to fix the site... 301's, nofollow, better mod_rewrite, more linking and backlinks, reinclusion request... none of them worked till today.
btw, we never used Google Sitemaps.
[edited by: tedster at 8:07 pm (utc) on June 28, 2006]
In fact, this June 27 data set has made one of my long-term clients quite happy, ranking them in what feels to us like a much more appropriate way than they have seen in 2 or 3 years.
I could see that Google had a difficult situation for a 2-word search here, because there were only two companies that were "really" in the space, but many other websites had single but intense pages on the topic. For the first time I can remember the two powerhouses are now head to head.
I'm guessing that the LACK of changes on these two domains in recent months may be playing in here -- historical stability or something of that kind. We both just quit tweaking things for a while!
If anyway is feeling self satisfied as a result of this old data push, I feel they maybe in for a big let down.
I am much too long in the tooth for that ;)
But of my two emerging sites one of them is commercial and it does have the potential to make me some money so I am praying to Google on high.
while the folks at the plex give out the message that the future is all about quality links..each 'change'..moves more and more to rewarding 'pure' link spamming..im not talking link swaps..im talking inbound link spamming by any means you want..there is no quality filtering 'wotsoever' that i can see..if you want to rank..go spam some links..guestbook..blogs...sponsored..purchased..networks...it appears the one constant that i can find in the upward march of the big movers...
understatement of the week :) those are a lot better showing index first with site:command lets hope the others move over
Relief - I just noticed that for a site: search, my homepage is not the first result anymore.
This usually means, their screw up, they shall fix it at some point.
at those DC's is a data from many months ago
I just checked a few of the sites I work with and the cache dates are all from last week. Also, the order of the SERPs is nothing I've seen before. Either we're seeing a "data blend" or one IP is serving up more than one set of results.
I just checked a few of the sites I work with and the cache dates are all from last week
a red herring i would suggest. Over One year ago google mistakenly indexed my whole site with the %20www prefix (which went straight to the supplemental bin)(also google should not be indexing site with %20www when this just represents a gap in the way the url was coded) because wildcard dns was incorrectly setup. This was rectified as soon as i realised what had happened. Those %20 pages havent exsisted for nearly one year but currently seem to be causing my widget pages to be penalised and they rank above those pages. So pages that havent exsisted for a year are still having that data used for ranking purposes. Npw im not saying the index is working on data froma year ago, it clearly isnt. But its not clear which rankings are influenced by year old data since some of it certainly is.
[edited by: soapystar at 9:07 pm (utc) on June 29, 2006]
