| Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Ernesto_C | 10/10/26 6:26 | I have read the FAQs and checked for similar issues: YES / NO My site's URL (web address) is: Description (including timeline of any changes made): On Friday, October 22nd, my site, http://rubbaorsi.it/masked.aspx (this is masked, you'll be redirect |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | tobylogue | 10/10/26 6:59 | Ernesto, I have experienced exactly the same problem at exactly the same time. lots of our popular keyphrases have disappeared when they'd been well ranked for years. Also i am finding very strange results when doing google searches and having to b |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | dannymal | 10/10/26 7:05 | Lots of people are reporting similar, both here and on other forums. Sounds to me like Google rolled out an algo change, but haven't publicly acknowledged it yet. Looking at your referrals on an hourly basis, do you see a step change in traffic (e.g. |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Ernesto_C | 10/10/26 7:34 | @Dan it was a step change, like someone had pushed a button. It happened on 22.00 GMT of October 21st. Here in Italy it was 00:00 of October 22nd. Accesses in the hour between 00:00 and 01:00 were down 70%. No notification of penalty received. And |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | dannymal | 10/10/26 7:43 | Sounds like a pretty convincing case for an algo change to me. It looks like your loss is these peoples gain: http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/4221534.htm Did you get affected by the MayDay update? Cheers, Dan |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Ernesto_C | 10/10/26 7:59 | @Dan I think you took the right path. I wasn't affected at all by the May Day update. Instead, the site here in Italy, that I consider my competitor, was affected by the May update. Its traffic went down dramatically. Guess when it went up again? O |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | MariannaF | 10/10/26 8:00 | @Ernesto_C Scrivo in italiano visto che lo sei come me. Anche noi siamo nella stessa situazione. Abbiamo un sito molto noto nel settore, ha 10 anni di storia. Sempre ben posizionato. Ci occupiamo di news. Non ripeto quello che tu hai scritto, sono le |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | dannymal | 10/10/26 8:10 | Interesting, a lot of the classifieds aggregators got annihilated by the May Day update (trovit, mitula etc), doesn't seem like they are seeing any uplift at the moment though. |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Ernesto_C | 10/10/26 8:15 | @Marianna stiamo in contatto certamente. Here, I prefer to answer you in English, for respect to the other guys on the thread. Sure enough, Google changed something last week. What? No one knows until now. Are they going to tell us? And if not, why |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | MariannaF | 10/10/26 8:35 | @Ernest_C No problem :-) |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | casasoft | 10/10/26 9:36 | we have had the same problem with our website, we were ranking really good for our target keywords and all of a sudden we do not appear any more. This is a great hit on our business as google was our main source of traffic! If you have any updates |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Ernesto_C | 10/10/26 11:06 | Knock, knock ... Is there anyone from Google? Just tell us where you're heading to. Simple as that. Until now, we made our best efforts to make good sites and you seemed to appreciate. All of a sudden, everything's changed. What were considered goo |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | seecast | 10/10/26 11:22 | I am in he same boat. It seemed to happen for me on Oct 21st in the late afternoon (EST). I've been racking my brains to think if there was anything I did to my site that would have caused this. It's extremely frustrating to have no guidance from |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Vince Barry | 10/10/26 11:26 | Ditto for me, massive drops for two sites in the last week, and getting even worse: in fact, on both sites I have exactly 1 visitor combined today... |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | locality | 10/10/26 11:32 | Our site also lost 80% of our Google Search traffic at 3pm PT on October 21st. We had made no changes prior to the traffic drop. The site had been doing 20,000 visits per day and now we are down to about 5,000 visits per day. It's hard to understand |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | shahedny | 10/10/26 11:55 | we also lost 80% traffic on a client site which has been doing so well for last 3 years, even after may day we lost 20% but gained most of it. |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | LaurenNey | 10/10/26 13:04 | Same here, massive drop in the last 24 hours on several searches through google. |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | squibble | 10/10/26 13:09 | You do not appear to have any/much content of your own and hope to score for information published elsewhere. Little or no original content http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66361 |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Веселин | 10/10/26 15:13 | The same happened to my site. Just making a good service seems not enough for G. |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | squibble | 10/10/26 15:25 | You can either focus on looking for a google error or you can look at your site and question whether you have plenty of good, quality, interesing, original content not found elsewhere on the internet and work from there. |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Bow_Explorer | 10/10/26 15:34 | @squibble, while i completely agree what you have said in terms of putting all efforts towards own websites instead of blaming Google, I believe Ernesto_C and other guys have a point: a lot of spamy sites (not saying only spamy) are currently ranked |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | squibble | 10/10/26 15:39 | Users get frustrated to see sites which publish content drawn from other sources in the results. There is a specific google guideline regarding it - linked above. Ensure each page has unique & original content worth indexing. |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Bow_Explorer | 10/10/26 15:41 | Couldn't agree more with you on what you have just said, @squibble. |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Ernesto_C | 10/10/26 16:14 | @squibble given also my current job of programmer, I think to be a rational guy. So, let's suppose you're right about the content of my site. It should be improved. I don't think so, but let's follow this path of reasoning. Google doesn't like soci |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | squibble | 10/10/26 16:26 | I dont know what answer you are looking for. You have a site with little content of your own, you are trying to rank for stuff already published elsewhere. You ask what makes a good site - have a read of the webmaster guidelines and work on the are |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Ernesto_C | 10/10/26 16:47 | @squibble Blyme, are you reading what I write or it's too late for you in the UK. Or I can't make me understand? I make it easier. Forget my site. OK, you're right: it's rubbish, it's copied. Whatever you want ... Just tell me, if it's normal wha |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | cellfunda | 10/10/26 22:13 | hi, I have the same problem, but slightly different. my site http://www.MiniCooperCars.com was coming on 7th number on first page for keyword "Mini Cooper Cars" before 22nd oct 2010 suddenly after that it went to 4th page and then on 5th page and now No wh |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Ampheon | 10/10/26 22:17 | I've just put my thoughts together on what might be going on in the following article: http://www.ampheon.co.uk/blog/detail/google-drops-pages-and-positions-on-22-october-2010 |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | R Spetner | 10/10/26 23:51 | I also am having issues- own http://bowlingshirt.com and we always were ranked number one when searching bowling shirts. Now we do not come up at all, and the links that do appear on pages 345 in the google search are invalid links. They now send you to a s |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Ernesto_C | 10/10/27 0:02 | @Ampheon Good. Your analysis makes sense, no doubt. That could also explain the absolute silence on Google's part. If it was an algo change, probably Google would tell us, as with the May Day update. But to admit problems or failures in indexing i |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Ampheon | 10/10/27 0:23 | I did consider that Ernesto - but with my client in particular May Day has virtually no effect - the listings they've lost are years old, as for other people I've read about. So, for some it seems to be a return to pre-May Day, for others it seems to |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Ruhul Sagor | 10/10/27 1:18 | @all, i am facing also this kinds of problem. some keyword ranked well with previous position. but some of them so far away from previous ranked. just observing this situation... |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | squibble | 10/10/27 1:36 | Ernesto. I did not understand your query. You write of sites 'bouncing every 5-6 months' but you also say that you have had good placement for years. I have not re-read this thread today but suspect you draw conclusions from an outsiders view of oth |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Веселин | 10/10/27 1:36 | Google sends mixed signals and forces webmasters to make mistakes. My website has a community, frequent visitors and receives a lot of incoming links. Google sent me a lot of traffic too, probably noticing that activity. And it suddenly stopped. My |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | squibble | 10/10/27 1:38 | R Spetner - Looking at your site - You should create your own thread for further input. |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | tobiascooks | 10/10/27 1:49 | @squibble I have the same problem as Ernesto_C and I have only unique content on my cooking blog. http://www.tobiaskocht.com is online since 01/09 and gets 5 to 6 updates a week. All recipes and photos are produced by me, nothing copied. My traffic from G |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Ernesto_C | 10/10/27 2:03 | @squibble Relax. If you like to continue to contribute to this thread, I'm sure it's better for all of us if you first read the posts. I suggest you in particular to read also the article on Malcom's blog. There you can find a perfect summary of wha |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | santos182 | 10/10/27 2:46 | I saw in this last week years of hard work going down the drain. Only recently I started contacting clientes in order to become our partners after building a solid presence in the web and on the 1st google page search for main keywords. That reputati |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Bow_Explorer | 10/10/27 3:07 | @squibble >"do you decide that these sites took no action apart from to 'sit it out' and await for Google to chane or do you think these sites took action themselves and stepped up ?" @squibble, have a look at the below links please: http://goo.gl/Z |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | squibble | 10/10/27 3:22 | bow_explorer - You have already posted the same on your thread. It is also best that you focus on your site and not others and also, if you are going to join other threads - take the time to look at the site referenced.. |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Bow_Explorer | 10/10/27 3:25 | I am trying to be a peace maker, buddy. OK, OK, I am leaving, leaving... :-) |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Ernesto_C | 10/10/27 3:44 | Dave, thanks for your peacemaking efforts. Actually, I didn't want to be rude with squibble. What I complain is that he keeps completely ignoring that something happened on a given day at a given time: October 21st at 22:00 (3pm PST). Lots of people |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | squibble | 10/10/27 3:50 | I still dont get what you are looking for. Google has stated here > Various parts of our algorithms can apply to sites at different times, depending on what our algorithms find. While we initially rolled out this change earlier this year, the web ch |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Ernesto_C | 10/10/27 4:11 | @squibble Everyone here is aware that something happened INSTANTLY at EXACTLY THE SAME TIME to thousands of sites. Like a button was pushed at that moment. The only one that seems not to understand this are you. Are you doing it on purpose? Your qu |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | squibble | 10/10/27 4:30 | If you would like this to be a general thread discussing 'not sure exactly' it is helpful for others to first look at your site, focus on it and see if any unique content can be found. Google suggests that you should > Create a useful, information-r |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Ernesto_C | 10/10/27 4:53 | @squibble sorry, but you have problems of reality perception. I already told you. You're right, my site is rubbish, unuseful, full of duplicate content. Enough? Should I add that I deserved to be downgraded? Yes, I deserved it. Happy now? Right now |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Pelagic | 10/10/27 5:47 | Hi Enersto, I also fail to see your issue, you have submitted that your site deserves to be downgraded, yet instead, you wish to generalize about the downgrading of other sites around Oct 21st, have you not considered that many of these other site |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Ernesto_C | 10/10/27 6:34 | Pelagic, I start to think that the top contributors of this forum are not human beings, but an automatic answering system assuming different identities, put up by Google. It was clear enough (at least to human persons that can appreciate irony) tha |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | squibble | 10/10/27 6:40 | The issue is - you have a low quality site which is not being returned high in search engines. You have no content of your own, yet you are seeking ranking for it. This drop in search was bound to happen. Google moves on constantly looking for the be |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Pelagic | 10/10/27 6:53 | Just because you have been indexed for years, doesnt mean that will continue to be the case in the future, users and google want better results, so its inevitable that with improving algos that lower quality pages won't no longer be indexed as they |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Ernesto_C | 10/10/27 6:55 | @squibble And this is your opinion. Anything new. Everyone took good note of that. Be sure. You don't need to repeat that again. I'm only wondering whether is among the rights of those who started a thread on this forum, to ask a contributor not to |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | squibble | 10/10/27 6:58 | No it is not, and again - I do not understand the issue being debated. Your site has dropped in search, you have no content, that is good for users who like to see original content on great sites return for their search queries. Make a site worth ind |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Ernesto_C | 10/10/27 7:02 | @pelagic I told you, read the previous posts. You'll find everything you're looking for. You can't enter a discussion after tens of posts and to form your opinion based only on the most recent ones. Sure, there are also many who overjoyed. Are thos |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Pelagic | 10/10/27 7:10 | @Ernesto, yes I have read them, one referred to WMW, where a poster commented on regaining his previous mayday algo losses, specifically when asked, he states; "From what I can see, traffic is back to the pages that lost it on June 2." .. "Still, I |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | squibble | 10/10/27 7:23 | This thread is about your site, not others - it is pointless to compare and see which sites are the spammiest. |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | JohnMu | 10/10/27 7:39 | Catching up here as well ... :-) Ernesto, I tend to agree with Squibble’s assessment. Having unique and compelling content of your own is very important and something our algorithms look out for. I’d definitely work hard on that, perhaps even workin |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Веселин | 10/10/27 7:41 | Squibblebot said that if your site aggregates content, it is low-quality and should not be visited. I disagree. My site is useful and has no competition in my country ( http://topbloglog.com , TBL ). My service is a blog ranking. It calculates relat |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Ernesto_C | 10/10/27 8:12 | @JohnMu you say that |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | squibble | 10/10/27 8:19 | That is like asking ' I have been speeding down this road for years - why do you stop me today ?' |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Веселин | 10/10/27 8:29 | "I did it, because I can. I didn't stop black-hats because I can't." We know, It is easier to sufficate one big website than 100 smaller black-hats, but this is what you should do. |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Ernesto_C | 10/10/27 8:29 | @John but then all digg-like sites are poor quality sites. When do you stop indexing digg? |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | squibble | 10/10/27 8:38 | Why not concentrate on your own site and work on making it a valuable resource ? That is within your control. |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Ernesto_C | 10/10/27 8:49 | @Веселин don't you agree that they don't follow the logic of our reasoning? They just keep repeating the same things, even if they don't apply to what we're talking about. And when the logic is compelling, they simply avoid to reply. If they banned |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | JohnMu | 10/10/27 9:09 | Ernesto, it doesn't really help your specific site to compare it to others. I would agree that it makes more sense for you to focus on your site and to review the changes that you can make. Whether or not other sites choose to improve their user-expe |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Веселин | 10/10/27 9:30 | @Ernesto_C I agree with you. Some moderator spent 2 or 5 seconds on my site and evaluated it as "low-quality" after being "high-quality" for years. It's not the same site, it's better now. They will not ban Digg, because they are probably partners. |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Веселин | 10/10/27 9:38 | We are speaking to robots, they don't read us. |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Ernesto_C | 10/10/27 9:43 | @John so you refuse to answer my question. That's quite revealing. Веселин's site and mine are digg-like sites (one in Bulgarian, the other in Italian). It's the same model of bussiness of Digg, collecting posts, comments, votes, etc, etc. If you s |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Ernesto_C | 10/10/27 9:46 | @Веселин yes, they are robots. And they don't even work that well :-) |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | squibble | 10/10/27 9:51 | It is about now that it might be a good idea for you to start to digest what has been said, accept this is the position you are in now and look to improve your site with a view to being the best site to return for the queries. << Cause at the moment |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Ernesto_C | 10/10/27 10:02 | Yes, because staying here is wasting time. And you can keep telling your fairy tales on other threads. :-))) |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | squibble | 10/10/27 10:10 | Well yes - I agree with you !! Staying any longer is a waste of time. You have your answer - from Google themselves. Go forth and produce a site of quality that you can be proud of. |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Ernesto_C | 10/10/27 10:24 | By the way, I opened the thread, so wasn't I supposed to decide for the best answer, if there was any. I want to make clear that this thread hasn't been answered at all. You marked it as answered, because you want to avoid that people read it. I und |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Robbo | 10/10/27 10:40 | Ernesto_C Your attitude is very bad and is not going to get you any closer to a real solution to your problems. By the way, you mentioned Aristotle. (>>> It's called syllogism and goes back to Aristotle.) Aristotle did say some good things ( I pa |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Ernesto_C | 10/10/27 11:03 | I mentioned Aristotle, because it was the first to formalize the most basic forms of logic reasoning. Some of Aristotle's positions could be certainly debatable, but you can't deny his importance in logic. No advancement in logic was made after Ari |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Веселин | 10/10/27 11:27 | G is changing rules. We are trying to find help against that. |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | tieungao | 10/10/27 11:58 | my site http://lamtheo.com got the huge drop on this time too, i wish we can understand what happend. I think google must respect to us because infact google search on us, rite? |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Matt_Kaminsky | 10/10/27 15:05 | Got social news portal hit by loss of traffic on Oct 21st. The issue about digg-like sites is quite interesting. The G employee clearly refused to answer. He implicitly admitted that G applies different parameters to sites like Digg, compared to si |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | squibble | 10/10/27 15:07 | lol |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Веселин | 10/10/27 16:17 | Posted another question for my site. No "top contributor" noticed me here, so let's give them a chance. http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=07541313a6cc8fb2&hl=en |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Веселин | 10/10/28 2:53 | http://dzver.com/strange2/spk.jpg Small screenshot from a popular Bulgarian blog, hosted on Blogger. Google services are painted pink and topbloglog widgets are cyan. Regards, Veselin |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | santos182 | 10/10/28 5:27 | I'm really tired of reading the argument of "your site is not interesting for a user". My example is obvious. I dropped 30 places on google search (even do I'm slowly climbing again) and on my place theres a site with exactly the same principles than |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | squibble | 10/10/28 5:44 | santos - here is your site as posted > http://casasprefab.blogspot.com and here is the thread you opened > http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=61cb617d04f66430&hl=en |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | santos182 | 10/10/28 6:26 | Googele translate rules! |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Веселин | 10/10/28 6:28 | squibblebot, am I invisible :-) |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | stevejonesflowmaster | 10/10/28 9:13 | Hi I think there is bigr issue here because coincidently on exactly the 21st October our website http://www.flowmaster.com stuffered a massive 75% drop in 'DIRECT TRAFFIC" after being steady for 6 years. We are a global software developer... with lots of c |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Pelagic | 10/10/28 9:30 | Hi Steve, if you would like someone to look at and possibly help you with your site specifically then I suggest you start your own thread. |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Matt_Kaminsky | 10/10/28 11:22 | @all These G guys think we're all stupid. We're asking waht happened on Oct 21st and they reply that we've to improve our site, without addressing the relevant issue. I'm sure they're perfectly aware that something went wrong and are trying to dive |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | squibble | 10/10/28 11:29 | The fact that every site shown has had serious issues with quality of content is very evident. Gosh - if something really bad happened - as you say - I hope that it no one fixes it anytime soon. |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Matt_Kaminsky | 10/10/28 11:38 | Yes, and all the quality problems came out for everyone at the same time (Oct. 21 - 3pm PST). Come on, squibble... be serious Matt |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | squibble | 10/10/28 12:20 | Be serious yourself. Google has already stated this > Various parts of our algorithms can apply to sites at different times, depending on what our algorithms find. While we initially rolled out this change earlier this year, the web changes, sites c |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Matt_Kaminsky | 10/10/28 13:16 | Don't know how you could say that. Never gave you the URL. "...not so good for some site owners." apart for the scores that daily ask to be included M |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | squibble | 10/10/28 13:21 | Please believe >> You dont need to give the url. |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | JohnMu | 10/10/28 13:25 | Matt_Kaminsky & stevejonesflowmaster, we make many changes throughout a year, and for each change there are going to be pages that appear higher and pages that appear lower in the search results. Our ultimate goal is to make our users happy by provid |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Matt_Kaminsky | 10/10/28 13:51 | Which kind of forum is this? What means " You don't need to give the url"? Is that a threath? Is Google violating my privacy? I'm sure I never wrote the address on this forum. NEVER! I just said it's a social news portal. That's it. Again, what doe |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | squibble | 10/10/28 13:58 | It was not a thread Matt Kiminsky. You posted that > Never gave you the URL. My retort was that > You dont need to give the url. It was not a 100% serious comment as one may guess, it was a lighthearted comment inferring that you dont need to give |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Matt_Kaminsky | 10/10/28 14:32 | I don't want to start a flame here. But, I'm seriously concerned. It seems like Google ACTUALLY knows somehow my url, just because I accessed this forum. You wrote: "the assessment of your site was updated..." "You dont need to give the url...." M |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | peterBarelist | 10/10/28 14:32 | Good afternoon John, I had the same exact thing happen to my site on the 22nd, here's a URL to the thread I made: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=1bb05e1658b10c77&hl=en I've gone nuts over the past 6 days changing tons |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | squibble | 10/10/28 14:35 | As I said above > it was a lighthearted comment Please, there is no need to over intrepret what has already been outlined to you. |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | R Spetner | 10/10/28 14:53 | @JohnMU - This latest change to Google's algorithmic way of calculating our site, or delisting our site is on the brink of having 20 employees out of work and a company very close to filing for bankruptcy. Our URL is http://www.bowlingshirt.com. I have also |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | squibble | 10/10/28 14:57 | r_spetner - I have been trying to help you on your thread, you do need to take some action yourself here and start dealing with your situation > http://www.google.co.uk/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=4969b3b2880345fe&hl=en |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Bow_Explorer | 10/10/28 15:46 | Guys (who blame Google and try to find out "what really happened"), Please stop blaming and trying to find out what "went wrong". You are barking the wrong tree in my opinion. Whatever happened - happened. It's over and it's highly unlikely Google w |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | R Spetner | 10/10/28 16:09 | @Matt You are a 100% correct. This hardest part for small business like ours is we work hard to try and comply. It would be much similar for the G people to just acknowledge there has been a change and to notify what is being done, similar to the Ma |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | squibble | 10/10/28 16:10 | r_spetner - you have technical problems on your site which you should be dealing with. Please start paying attention to them. |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | R Spetner | 10/10/28 16:18 | @Bow - We will work to make improvements on the site and have taken the experts advice seriously. We are striving to comply, and have started our own thread. However, I am only asking what the playing rules are? The link errors that show in the searc |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | peterBarelist | 10/10/28 16:25 | R Spetner - Sort of feel the same way, just want to know what to change. Since last November I've been working like crazy with Google's guidelines for page speed and have by far the most optimized site in my space. In April/May I saw huge growth in |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | squibble | 10/10/28 16:26 | r_spetner - I am trying to help you on your other thread. The playing rules are that if someone is trying to help you then you stop hijacking threads of others and start to take note of what is written to help you get your site indexing back on track |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Matt_Kaminsky | 10/10/28 16:46 | @R Spetner, @Peter at last someone speaking wisely. Right, the problem here are the rules. Once you have established some rules, you must consistently apply them. This is not happening right now with Google. I've been in top positions for many relev |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Bow_Explorer | 10/10/28 16:49 | @Matt_Kaminsky, maybe engaging with your audience and asking them what they want & brainstorming with your team could help a little bit? At least it helped us. Peace Dave |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Matt_Kaminsky | 10/10/28 17:20 | @Bow I really appreciate your new peace & love attitude. But it's too generic. I don't need to ask a programmer. I am a programmer and I'm used to brainstorming. But I need to know what "to storm my brain" about. And my audience is quite happy with |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Bow_Explorer | 10/10/28 17:28 | @Matt. No probs at all, buddy - just trying to help and share our approach. |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Веселин | 10/10/29 0:44 | TBL community isn't affected by the crash untill now. We have lost between 55 and 60% of the unqiue visitors, but our front page, login page and dashboard are unaffected. We have lost <40% of the page views. I am sorry now for ignoring Facebook and u |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | stevejonesflowmaster | 10/10/29 1:31 | squibble should be named squabble for all the mediation skills!.. look here I could understand that websites randomly get hit by algo changes and poor content issues to a 'varying' degree BUT... the fact that huge numbers of currently stable sites wi |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | yeahyeah | 10/10/29 1:34 | Agree that some of the sites affected could "improve their content" but at the same time you see and hear and read things like http://www.seobook.com/who-benefits-following-googles-guidelines and the "improve your content" mantra starts to sound holl |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | squibble | 10/10/29 1:57 | And then you can read this and understand that working to improve content is the best use of time at this stage > At the same time, there were people developing not quality content (not a violation of guidelines, but also not providing value). What |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | santos182 | 10/10/29 3:16 | Just to say that my not interesting site is back on the first page. |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | JohnMu | 10/10/29 4:39 | I'm following the other threads linked from here and will try to see what more I can post there. Matt & Steve & others who have not started a thread: it would really help to know your sites' URLs, perhaps in a separate thread for them. Providing inf |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | tieungao | 10/10/29 9:29 | hi johnMu, can u take a look at my thread: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=1b973a3ff415ad16&hl=en Thanks |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | No Pork Pies | 10/10/29 9:39 | Hi John, I've also experienced this problem with a large brand - http://www.claimsdirect.co.uk It is still ranking for injury claims (1st in Google UK) but have completely dropped off the top 100 for personal injury claims, as well as no win no fee, bike i |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Pelagic | 10/10/29 11:34 | Hi NoPorkPies, if you would like to start your own specific thread, I can point a few things out for you that will be contributing to your issue, specifically that you are duplicating your own content and filtering this site out. |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Teachbyday | 10/10/30 11:12 | Hi John, I'm seeing the same exact thing with my site. http://bit.ly/9IRy10 We provide high quality content and are a pretty trusted source for our niche. But we woke up today to a trickle of referrals from big G. Every thing across the board is |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | fighterjets | 10/10/30 15:51 | @JohnMu Hi John, Hope you are well, I have noticed a few of my websites dropped rankings on the 27th and 28th Oct i was not affected at all (In terms of rankings) by the may day update but i feel something has changed as sites that have very bad c |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Teachbyday | 10/10/31 6:29 | @JohnMu Hi John, I started a thread on my site: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=22645df763532c47&hl=en Can you please take a look. There are number of keywords that we are now on 2nd or third page for, but we are cle |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | thuisvergelijk | 10/10/31 9:38 | our traffic is also dropped down since the end of october. we feel like a little boy standing in the corner at school without knowing the reason and without knowing how long standing there. dear google, i am your biggest fan, but dont forget that blo |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | devzhanghl | 10/11/01 2:04 | Hi, all I am an author of shareware and freeware. for about 3 years visitors can search my software names form google, the software homepage is on the 1st position. but from 21st Oct. the pages is on the 5 or 6 pages. I think is so abnormal. I h |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | celopereira | 10/11/03 15:39 | Hi all, I have 2 websites target to Brazil and both of then had around 2000 visitors/day and today (3rd Nov) my websites have ZERO visitors. Both sites simply desapeared from Google first page. Both are very bad ranked and I have no idea what happen |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | Teachbyday | 10/11/03 17:03 | Tons of people are having issues. I haven't run into anyone who has 4 or more sites and one was not affected badly on one of them. There are a ton of conspiracy theories running wild here and all kinds of other forums. My honest take is that they |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | vincentvagabond | 10/11/04 11:53 | Guys I also suffered the same problem with my blog http://techattitude.com . Coincidentally, I had made slight changes to my sitemap.xml by changing the priorities of the posts and the update frequencies and just a day after that, my traffic dropped |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | telinco | 10/11/07 10:13 | We lost also 80% of our traffic on our site http://tinyurl.com/28m2lll since june 2 and we didn't recover any % of that drop yet. This i really frustrating, because we have worked hard and our site has unique content with happy users. But what's eve |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | kellyman | 10/11/07 14:18 | Well my sites the same, but like the advice or not, it like mine is sound advice, concentrate on your site, yes many sites dropped on that date, why nyou need to fell that Google owes you the answer as to why it happened it just did, get over it take |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | WendyPiersall | 10/11/08 14:34 | @squibble - While I do think that sites got penalized on 10/22 for little original content, this simply doesn't apply to my site. Everything on my blog is written by me, all images are created by me. I write about family-friendly topics that are not |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | squibble | 10/11/08 15:09 | I have responded on the thread you created. |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | kandw101 | 10/11/11 8:04 | Anyone that says Google serps are STILL the best are getting a 10% raise next year. Bing has a lot less spammy sites on first page. Unfortunetly, until people wake up, anyone with a website must try to contend with spammy serps and this new map c rap |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | pottsypotts | 10/11/24 11:33 | Like the above we too have seen the drop since end of Oct, looking at our google analytics we measure a 20% drop, our keywords have dropped down on the first page quite a few positions, looks like places have been given to Ebay,Amazon and shopzilla i |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | jameks | 10/12/08 13:53 | Are all you guys back to where you were? I have a similar issue (but my site dropped on Sept 25, not October) Here's my thread - http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=6dcd2428eb4fc691&hl=en |
| Re: Last week dramatic drop in Google SERPs overnight | pottsypotts | 10/12/14 6:18 | Jameks we are no where near back to where we were, things have got increasingly worse and have had our quietest Monday for visitors this year ( considering this time of year should be one of our busiest times) Our analytics are now down 40% We have a |