Weird Google Shift
 

Has anyone else that pulls hearty traffic via Google noticed a drop in numbers? I'm talking about Google search traffic, not the pay by click Google ads. The last four days have been disasterous for us, and when I studied my referring traffic stats I noticed a huge portion of our normal Google traffic (that's been consistent for years) was gone.

Any Google experts here? Would appreciate your opinion.

google updated , you didnt fare very well, it happens , learn from it and move on..

google updates everyday.

thanks smokes

Of course I knew that they'd "danced" and updated -- but I was wondering if anyone was aware of other kinds of logarithm changes or policy shifts, etc.

Have you checked the actual SERPS? Are you no longer ranking for queries that you use to rank for? or is it just a drop in traffic?

If the latter is the case..think about it
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google is doing good for me since the update

95% of my pages got dropped.

What are SERPS? And to answer your question: both. Queries and drop in traffic. My site is based on a successful blog format, with actual articles and features and blog posts bringing in a good amount of traffic from Google. But as of the other day it's like Google put up some sort of filter that shut out search results to our random blog pages. Formerly those pages brought in a decent amount of random traffic.

It's incredibly frustrating and a bit frightening -- should this be their new format and filtering system. My site is eight years old, so it's not like I'm a newbie, crying about a recent Google dance. It's just that in the past the shift hasn't wrecked havoc so hard on my traffic.

Were you using any gray/blackhat techniques?

I got your traffic :winkwink: The google dance was VERY nice to me :)

Mine too. What are serps?

What are those? Have no idea what you're talking about.:Oh crap

help please? Is there a way to check what your listings are under different keywords?

How much of a drop (percentagewise) did you experience?

I disagree. My experience shows that Google updates abut 4 times a year.

Depends on how popular the site is. Sites like CNN will get updated more than once a day. When I make changes to my site I usually notice the update in Google in about 4-5 days.

Serps - search engine rank placements (or some variety of that)

There has been a major update to the algorithm in addition to the regular daily updates Google does - they screwed it up about two weeks ago and dumped a really bad corrupted database into the results - they had to pull that one back two days later - then a few days ago they tried again with a doubling of the pages in the index - and it looks like its sticking - but it doesnt look like theyve applied to many of their filters yet

Substantial. Enough to get drunk over and cry in my beer last night. I'd say about a third of my traffic evaporated. Brutal.

Linkster -- how do you track this information...? And can you explain anything about applied "filters." Thanks.

Since you work there can you get me a Google slimouse pleez? :thumbsup

Google and the sales have been rocking last few days :) can't complain here, SEs are a zero sum game after all. Some win some lose and it all evens out at the end of the day.

serps dont drop by leaps and bounds everyday , they shift around a bit , but when your traffic drops by a noticeable amount its usually a ban or an update. and indeed there has been an update/algo change.

search engine ranking position..

search engine results page

I think that we are confusing how often Google spiders a site with THE Google updates. Google spiders some of my sites (most actually) several times a day. Google does not do a system-wide update but for a few times a year.

Is there a way to type in your url and see under what keywords and what ranking under those keywords you are at?

Haven't even had a chance to check my SERPS lately...but I DID notice google burning the shit out of my box crawling the last few days.

:thumbsup :pimp

Yep, googlebot been like termites gone wild. :1orglaugh

LOL I like that 'termites gone wild'

I might have to steal that one, our friend SPeRMiNaToR might opt for "Centipedes gone wild" though.

:1orglaugh :thumbsup

same here!

Are the SERPs still shifting around or has it settled down already?

I don't think the dust has settled yet maing...

:pimp

My positions have been bouncing all over the place in the past few days. I wouldn't mind if the SERPs settled in their current position... :upsidedow

the same happened to me i go adware campaign nothing show up i heard hear like it show up right now but nothing work we wrotte them the didnt reply and the charge me i dont know what to do
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Ouch. Hang in there for a few more days. Updates are sometimes unstable for a few days. Once it's settled down you'll see where you really stand re SERPS.

A few people have taken big drops, the main reasons with regard to this update seem to be.

Linking to banned domains, buying/trading links on non related sites, having the same blog articles as 20,000 other people, too many out links in relation to the amount of text on the page.

I could go on.. but I wont.. hehe

up 63% here.... back to where i belong, lot of scammer sites got above me since jagger, good to see that stuff is dissappearing

I track it using a few programs I had written 4 years ago as well as just simple things like picking a phrase that I know I will usually rank pretty well with and watching the number of results Google reports when you type in the search - one that Ive used for years is the word "sex" (although they censor that search in the US/ English results now). For years the results showed 70 million results - then last year they started their "BD" changeover and it jumped to 300 mill results - two weeks ago it went to 3 billion results - and now its back down to 400 mill

The filters can be seen when they are applied by adding &filter=0 to the end of the resulting url when you type in a search - this will show all the sites being filtered out for dupe/ban etc
There are 100s of filters in the algorithm that can be "tweaked" based on incoming links, authority of the sites, titles, descriptions and on and on.
Recently there have been some people that think there were also domain age filters, ownership dupe filters and many others that havent been proven but are good guesses based on Googles recent acceptance as a qualified registrar