Google update?

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Yes – serps are jumping up and down, not sure what it means just yet

http://forums.seochat.com/t54393/s.html

Somethings happening for sure.

We dropped to page 2 again after clawing our way back to page one :crazy:

I read those threads at SEO Chat – but am not too convinced yet.
I see that we suddenly have a lot of “supplemental links” listed from 2004 again – which were deleted .. a lot of cached results at the moment – which is weird.

Also.. seach for “online casinos” and you will see that google themselves are listed at number 8.
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2005-27,GGLG:en&q=online+casinos

Hope it is just a hiccup at the moment :eh:

Hey Everyone,
I notice the update yesterday morning and as the day went by it got worst. If these results were to stick there will be alot of unhappy webmasters including me. I hope it is just a hiccup as well Peralis.

I’ve been trying out a few keywords, both gambling and non-gambling related and to be honest, these are the worst results I think I’ve seen from any search engine for a while.

Google has also shot down a few of my sites as well. :shooter:

I have been reading some of threads at xhttp://www.seochat.com about this update. There are many that are devasted if this update sticks. Some are saying it is this worst update ever. No one seems to have a handle on what Google is doing with this update. Alot of theories floating out there as usuall. It does seem though that Google is changing there algo so webmasters will have to use Ad Words for a front page listing. The problem in our industry Google does not accept online gambling sites. By the weekend I would think we will know what the finall results of this update is. I sure hope that the present results do not stick.

The worst update ever was the Florida Update. It destroyed me at Google and I never really recovered there.

I would give it till Thursday or Friday though before you get too worried. Generally the first few days of any major update are a bumpy ride then things tend to smooth out.

This update has been going on for few weeks now. Seems like it is going industry by industry as people at SEOchat are divided based on which industry they are in. Some people are experiencing changes, others are not. The prevailing theory is that Google might be devaluing link exchanges. At least between sites that aren’t relevant to each other, and that they might be placing an aging filter on links, so those links you got last week are giving you less of a bump than the links you got last year. Sounds sort of like a link sandbox theory to me.

In any case, most people are reporting that they are getting killed in the SERPS for a few days as Google completely ignores their backlinks, then it returns to pretty much normal later on. Where it finally stops, nobody knows. Guess it is affecting gambling related terms right now.

Hmmm, my serps are returning to what they were in August on Google thankfully as I took a massive hit then. Be interesting to see how this pans out.

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And most of my inbound links point to my homepage..

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