July Update?

[Heywood_J]

Is it me or does it look like a significant update is going on at google. I am noticing a number of SERP changes for a few of my sites and they've been fluctuating for the past few days.

Anyone else noticing any major changes?

[PaulPA]

I've seen backlinks drop by about 25% but my rankings on keywords actually improved.

[Stefan]

The backlinks being shown are not what G is using to establish serps. Evidently, someone has attacked a bank of servers with a firehose, or perhaps the recent solar flare resulted in a computer version of a nervous breakdown.

Even if they decide to stick with those visible backlinks, it really means nothing. (And I still have my yoogoo link, at the very worst...)

[soapystar]

i have a bald spot where im scratching my head....how does a one page subdomain which is simply a frame of a totally different site beat a 2000 page site for a city widgets search..blimey...google really fliped this time....

[SEOQuestions]

What is the best way to check your backlinks on Google?

[vplaza]

Well a certain popular affiliate program provider whose name is two letters appears to have received a white bar 0/10 PR.
So something screwy is going on.

[ortelius]

I saw the number of backlinks to my site drop from 38 to 12 recently. This is the result when I check "backlinks" in the Google toolbar. But when I use: allinurl:www.mydomain.com to check links, I get about 700. I'm pretty new at this stuff, but why the difference?

[outland88]

Google is figuring out more and more ways to rid the results of any site with an ordering page. In my areas I can only find two sites within the top 100 results, for five major keywords, that have ordering pages. Last year there were 60 to 70 commerce sites ranking within the top 100 for these particular words before Florida. Quite frankly Froogle and most Adword campaigns won’t make up for killing commerce sites in the regular results. If you’ve got an ordering page in Google it seems like you’re a sitting duck.

It seems to me Google wants site owners to create page after page of worthless drivel to rank or sell it’s Adsense. Yahoo on the other hand sits in the corner censoring the meaningless content you have to create to rank in Google. I tell you the truth I didn’t set out to be Hemingway to rank well in Google or pass the supposed quality guidelines in Yahoo. But I better conjure up the old boy from his grave if I expect to do business much longer in Google or Yahoo. Any more of these strange updates and I'm about finished.

[europeforvisitors]

It seems to me Google wants site owners to create page after page of worthless drivel to rank or sell it’s Adsense.

From Google's Web site:

Google's mission:
Organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.

I don't see anything in there about "worthless drivel"--but I don't see anything in that mission statement about organizing e-commerce pages and making them universally accessible, either. Fact is, Google doesn't owe any of us a living; Google's job is to deliver the results that, in its opinion, searchers are looking for.

I tell you the truth I didn’t set out to be Hemingway to rank well in Google or pass the supposed quality guidelines in Yahoo. But I better conjure up the old boy from his grave if I expect to do business much longer in Google or Yahoo.

Try conjuring up David Ogilvy. He's a more useful role model if you're trying to sell something. :-)

[TerrCan123]

I see a lot of spam backlinks now so Google must be showing the good with the bad. Quite a few also have only a url as the title with no description.

[Dpeper]

I dont get it! I have a ton of backlinks, from related, .gov and .edu sites PR 6, and 7's and they dont show All that shows in backlinks is all of the junk, spam links.? Whats the deal with this?

I have a link in DMOZ, and have had it for years, it doesnt even show as a backlink.