Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
Since I don't, and haven't been touched by this update, maybe they're saying links should be a totally organic, hands-off affair."
Sounds like we may be running the same site ;-)
My first guess was some type of inbound link pattern, coupled with lack of outbound links. A clear signature, something very easy to track down, plus many links on link farms, directory pages etc. Not natural links, no site I do with only natural links has dropped at all. However, others here seem to report otherwise, although sometimes people tend to be slightly self delusional about their own innocent seo activities.
It doesn't take mathematical geniuses to hear a Shareholder say, 'Well this is dissapointing. We were promised xx% in the last quarter. Yahoo is promosing..'
sometimes people tend to be slightly self delusional about their own innocent seo activities
How tactfully phrased ;-))
Google is changing, and so you bend with the wind. For the last year my website (4 years old) has been getting busier by the day thanks to Google. I felt that I needed to add new content 5 to 6 times a day (weekend too!) to my website. Yes I made a lot of money, more then I needed, most of it's in the bank. For the last few weeks my website traffic has fallen by half and I'm not making as much money, but I'm still making more then I need. I'm taking it a little easier now (updates once a day), and you should too! We will survive this "Google none update!"
I must say that Google should let webmaster know why their website are penalized. After all Google is making it's millions off the sweat and hard labor of all of our website. That is, without our websites Google would have nothing to sell!
Remember: "A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because the worms are scarce."
Yes they do need money.
"They" in this instance are not those who are fiddling with the algo that produces these updates. Sure algo engineers are aware of the pressure but it can't possibly come in the form of suggestions or orders from above mandating, "downgrade class x site so we can get more ad dollars."
It just doesn't work that way. It makes a good conspiracy theory but I don't buy it.
unnatural linking working very well for many companies
I have a perl script that creates thousands of links to a site (which is unnatural) however, no two links are identical and the URL, anchor text and title text are created randomly from a list of potential keywords and the links are created/changed/removed over time.
So although generated by mechanical (or unnatural methods) they are not easy to spot or categorize.
Was your site hit by this update?
