Google update

[sarahpatience]

Anyone else been affected by this recent update? On Friday I noticed that my site had been giving a google PR of 4, which was great as previously it had no ranking at all. However, over the weekend my site has all but vanished from google for several key phrases for which I have been ranked #1 for months. For some I've dropped back several pages and for others I don't even appear at all anymore. I was under the impression that a PR would mean better rankings as opposed to loss of rankings.

Sarah

[weirfire]

Originally Posted by sarahpatience

Anyone else been affected by this recent update? On Friday I noticed that my site had been giving a google PR of 4, which was great as previously it had no ranking at all. However, over the weekend my site has all but vanished from google for several key phrases for which I have been ranked #1 for months. For some I've dropped back several pages and for others I don't even appear at all anymore. I was under the impression that a PR would mean better rankings as opposed to loss of rankings.

Sarah

Hi Sarah,

I recognise your name from somewhere but I cant picture where.

The update is still working itself out. On Matt Cutts blog (he works for Google) he states on Oct 17th that there may be 3 parts to the Google update. I'd prepare yourself for a number of changes to all the numbers that are displayed and also bare in mind that Google have several datacenters and they dont always contain the same information. http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/

If you use the future pagerank tool at SEO chat forums or mcdars datacenter tool you can see what the pagerank of your site is over a number of different datacenters.

Just remember that the actual pagerank is always updating behind the scenes and it is only the toolbar display which has been updated. keyword positions on the search engines is what we really need to be focused on as this is what gets us traffic.

Just out of interest however here are how my sites faired this time around;

5 -> 5
2 -> 4
3 -> 4
3 -> 4
2 -> 3
2 -> 3

I was hoping for a 6 on the 5 one but at least they are all going in the right direction. I sell links from my sites which was why I was interested in the outcome of the update.


Stephen
Weirfire Web Designers

[peterjhale]

yes the serps are bobbing around and as Stephen has pointed out this will be going on for a few weeks yet


FWIW, google releases PR and backlink update some weeks after it has been factored into their SERPS results

In fact, new links (when counted) will affect your SERPS as soon as Google allows your new links into ranking your site. So, if you were getting new good links each day or week these will affect your rankings straight away (less the sandbox effect ...)

[weirfire]

Therefor all the hype about the toolbar update is meaningless.

[Ian J]

Having been dumped from the top spot on Google for the search term factoring to page three at the beginning of the "Jagger" shuffle I had worked my way back to 7th on the first page in the last week in October prior to disappearing on vacation.

I checked on Tuesday night on my return to find that I was now at the bottom of page 9 as I was yesterday but this morning I am 6th on page 1 and many of the sites that were on the first page yesterday have disappeared.

I have never known a shuffle before like this one and just wish that they would hurry up and get it over and done with

[peterjhale]

yeah - this update has taken the longest that I have ever experienced


word on the street (well Matt's blog) was the final update was being rolled out yesterday -- I just had a scout around some of the other forums and this doesn't appear to be the case as yet.


One way to check all the datacentres which will have various versions of google's algorithms is to goto www.mcdar.net and click on google dance

[weirfire]

Well, my keyword results are just starting to slow down now! They've been up and down like no-bodys business and yesterday I had a few unique visitors records on a few of my sites.

Hopefully when the dust settles I'll find myself on the top of the hill.

[peterjhale]

according to google, the datacentre with the final results is http://66.102.9.104


to find queries just from the uk type in: http://66.102.9.104/search?hl=en&lr=&cr=countryUK%7CcountryGB&c2coff=1 &q=business+forums

[Ian J]

I sincerely hope that you are wrong as I have been back in position two on the first page all week but according to the above I will end up at the top of the second page.

Not only that but the fourth site on page one is actually written in German

[MikeH]

Out of interest Ian how old is the site and how many pages does it have?

Mike