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However, we have one site that is still #1 for the two main keywords.
I have looked at various theories, to no avail so far.
Here's another ---
Do any of you have badly affected sites in which the home page has AdSense with pictures right above the AdSense banner?
I have four pix semi-aligned above the three- or four-text AdSense listings.
Google actually wrote me an email a while back saying this was okay as long as the pictures were not intended to mislead visitors, just to "draw the eye" to the AdSense area.
BUT, the site I have that's not affected by the 27 June screwup does NOT have these pix above the AdSense area.
Yes, another screwy theory --- anyone else think this might be a problem?
I have read and read theories and the only one that makes any sense is that Google screwed up and their engineers are so arrogant (like the rest of their company) that they think either it isn't actually broken or they can work their way out of problems.
Oh, one side note. The site I built that spends a million dollars a year with them in adwords didn't take a hit at all. ;-) go figure.
Ok, I feel better now. Thanks. lol
There was a planet with a population and an ancient tech level.
Strange accidents happened. People suddenly flying in the air and falling down.
After each fatality, all the people in the village come together to resarch all the life of the deceased.
They discussed as long as they had been able to find a new rule, why the deceased made the gods so angry to kill him.
As the accidents happened by machines below the surface from an other civilication long time ago, all the accidents had been simple coincidence.
But the people created an immens rule book about what is not allowed.
They gave nearly an development helper from earth not knowing all the rules the "big present"
Big present?
To kill a rule breaker before the gods kill him.
Great SF, we should think of this roman, when we discuss to much here strange Google accidents.
I think that it is at least questions of morally responsibility to explain us why
I tried 4 different lines to discuss with Google the problem.
It's a wall of silence.
But what's more important?
The central theory of Google, that all can be done by algorithms?
The trust of all the surprisingly loosing webmasters in Google?
Why can an AdSense manager not look at a site reduced some $1000 a month?
Oh, the new anti spam algo hit by accident this site, I remove manual the penalty.
I feel like in a SF roman with the robot regent of Akron.
For people unfamilar with the Perry Rhodan SF series,
Akron was an empire. As the people degenerated, they decided that at a certain point, a big computer should take over the government and rule the whole empire without any human intervention.
Matt said:
"Bontar, I believe any changes on the 27th were refreshing data used by an existing algorithm."
It is not true because of dissapearing thousands sites that never before has been afected.
Matt said:
"AKA, that’s what happened. Arubicus, the change went through evaluation just like any other change and showed a positive improvement. This is not something that’s radically new; this set of algorithms has been live for a while. I’m pretty sure that there will be another refresh of that data in the next 2-3 weeks, so we keep iterating to improve things based on our evaluation and the feedback that we get.
"
It look as we must wait next 2 weeks to see another refresh.
Matt Said,
"I wrote that before I read your most recent comment, Bontar. It will continue to be refreshed (just talked with someone about it few minutes ago), but not with data from the 26th. We keep iterating based on evaluation, the changes that we see, and the feedback that we get as well.
"
I have hope again. I can see through the lines that we are victims of experiment that will be probably very soon over.
We need a little patience and wait on another refresh.
I'm still running with the theory that G has made a massive CU with this but what if they haven't
I think the adsense route is off the mark as I'm seeing those sites still ranking and everyone I know thats been hit has no adds on the site
What I am seeing is affiliate sites dropping like flys and my own sites that have been dumped along with friends are affiliate based
So I'm wondering if this update inst an attack on sites that have the following
1- affiliates links
2- a percentage of unique content verse affiliate content
3- looks at the amount of affiliate links that leave a page
So, this could be a two fold attack using a new affiliate filter in conjunction with a duplicate content filter
Now please someone tell me I'm wrong so I can carry on saying its a G CU :)
P.S just to strengthen the webmasters that are on the CU theory I just ran a search on one of my keywords and found what looked like a good linking partner - no PR but what the heck I stopped looking at that a long time ago, then checked the cached info nothing! and the site is ranking well someone pls tell me how a site can rank but according to G the page exists
[edited by: tigger at 7:52 am (utc) on July 9, 2006]
maybe i'm missing the point tigger but it has always been possible to prevent google showing the page cache and have the page rank, this isn't anything new. i think this is a red herring.
I think the adsense route is off the mark as I'm seeing those sites still ranking and everyone I know thats been hit has no adds on the siteWhat I am seeing is affiliate sites dropping like flys and my own sites that have been dumped along with friends are affiliate based
Wrong theory.
My 5 best earnig AdSense sites have lost more than 80% at Google search at June 27th
www.example.com since 1997 very stable
n.example.com since April 2002
a.example.com since March 2004
w.example.com since October 2004
b.example.com since July 2004
www.example.com nearly no new content since years
n.example.com few new content
a.example.com everal 100 pages new content in last half year
w.example.com several 100 pages new content in last half year
b.example.com some pages added half year ago
It's no pattern to see. All practicall AdSense only sites.
[edited by: jetteroheller at 8:26 am (utc) on July 9, 2006]
happy to see it as it just confirms that theres is no pattern to this update
From my main domain, 3 subdomains are still working fine.
So I check each theory against my working and not working sites.
To much new content
a.example.com lost traffic
c.example.com the English translation of a.example.com works fine
To big pictures, only few lines of content
a.example.com lost traffic
c.example.com the English translation of a.example.com works fine
both use the same pictures
www.example.com has very few pictures and lost traffic
p.example.com has very few pictures and works normal
To much keywords
www.example.com has no keywords and lost traffic
all other have much keywords and are on both sides.
WWW and not WWW indexing problem:
some domains both indexed www, no www lost traffic, some not
I have also examples with only correct indexed lost traffic and no traffic loose.
There is no pattern.
Remember, program bugs can be hard sometimes.
In the first golf war died 27 US soldiers because of a software bug in the Patriot defense system.
Tried it later?
I did a robots nocache on a page that gets a lot of traffic. A hobby page, not part of the business.
Just after the next crawl it tanked. It has highly unique keywords on it, but no matter how I tried I could NOT get Google to serve it up. Interestingly, Yahoo and Ask did the same thing - MSN didn't.
Site: showed it as still indexed.
After I removed nocache, carefully making no other changes, it bounced right back.
Nocache certainly works, but it is also not SERPs/neutral. Try it.
I am a VP of a company that spends over a million dollars a year in Adwords listings and you want to know something amazing about that?If I had your power, I would suddenly withdraw from AdWords and go with Yahoo or some other advertising system. Then, Google would certainly contact me and ask, and I'd say - You scr*wed us, so now we're scr*wing you.
BTW- Are any of you shareholders of Google stock?
gidspor - I've looked at quite a few sites that went 27ish, and most had adsense - does yours? Care to sticky me the URL?
Let's get this in context too - maybe thousands of sites have been affected but that still leaves billions that weren't, so there's nothing to be learnt from which sites are not affected
Matt cutts has said little, but a he has said something, and specifically acknowledged a change at least. I understand him as saying it's not the algo that changed - it's the data that the algo runs on. So something has changed about the way these sites are perceived.
What data might that be? What is Google measuring? Who knows, but we know what they want from us - good sites that make the searcher happy that they clicked on them
I'm also glad to see the 27th thread back on its own. All those datacenters were making me dizzy.
Of those that dropped by 75%+ in traffic, how many of you are using a global template... and if more than 1 template, how many templates, and what is the maximum no. of pages using a given template?
My question comes from having read a recent post on Matt Cutt's blog?
after all you don't want to confuse surfers by offering different design themes throughout a site and doesn't this then smack in the face of Google saying you build sites for surfers not SE's! - so how to completely confuse someone you throw up different looking /design pages so you please G
The only thing that is different on my pages is I tend to change the navigation around so surfers can find relevant information
Perhaps Borgoogle is discounting crossed-links between own sites?
I don't want to suggest for a second that Google are actually punishing any sites that use a global template, but one of the comments that I have seem from Matt on his blog suggest that it's one of the criteria that they look for in order to detect "doorway pages". I guess that if a given site has more than x pages with a common template then it may appear as though the pages are "doorway pages".
Obviously it's more complex than just that though, because the majority of sites use a template of some sort. But, if there are more than x pages under a certain directory, and if the words appearing on the pages consistently apprear in their urls', then that might be one way of detecting doorways, so I'm just asking!
In essence, this might be a problem for some of us with high pagecount sub-directories that have a common directory and meet certain other criteria.
nope not doing that
Hi Chico
I can see where your coming from with the common template that these could be viewed as doorways but surely if that was the case just about any 100+ site could fall into this trap - after all its not hard to produce a 100 pages on a subject? or maybe thats it make your doorways look different LOL
3 of our badly affected websites are now presented by Borgoogle with their DMOZ titles, NOT the ones showing on the actual pages themselves.
This started happening around 6-8 weeks ago, and was intermittent for around 2 weeks at first, but now solidly DMOZ titles.
( I hate these titles as they are 5 years out-of-date )
Perhaps DMOZ is being discounted now for page rank, and those sites punished by forcing out-of-date titles onto them in Borgoogle?
after all its not hard to produce a 100 pages on a subject?
No, it's not, but if each of those pages (or a large portion thereof) also had other criteria that might seem suspicious, then that might cause a problem.
