Google Algo Update Aftermath
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So, how many of you got got killed on the recent updates?
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I track a lot of websites, not carefully but from time to time check positions. Some of them are active clients, some of them I worked for before and I must say that this update seems as "ok done" with not many mistakes.
In general, around 50% of sites are on the same positions. Around 40% had slight improvements and 10% lost positions.
What I realized, and would like to know if you have same experiences is that this update was something like on "keyword based" level. On 5-6 websites which lost positions it looks strange because some #1 positions stayed at #1 and some dropped like from #1-#5 to #120-#200.
One website lost 60% of visits and it was my test website. I have 31 pages on that website and all of them looks like "word1 word2 different word" so it if for sure spam looking website. All the 30-40 keywords were in top20 and arond 10 #1. So it is "strange" that a lot of high ranked keywords went to #120+ positions but something like 5-6 keywords still #1.
Another thing, if I am not wrong, is that google focused also on the websites owned by same person who owns same niche websites. I have something like a partner with around 10 dental sites. 6-7 of them stayed pretty the same and 3-4 had slight drops, one had major drops. what is important is that all the content is unique, not spammy on all of them and links were pretty the same. I mean, he made links sometimes using the same source (rubbish) but a big number of links not in any connection so like 70% of links per site were "unique" sources. But again, in his case drops were like "per keyword", some keywords still on #1 and same website lost other keywords from top10 to #120+
Did you have same experiences maybe ?
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I am reaping the benifits,
I have one client that has a original product, but has many compeditors with cheap or ripoff imitations, he was ranking above them anyhowe, but now he is the only selling site on page one, he is now competing with wikiopeadia, the NYT and other information sites only. Sales are up 25%.
Others have also seen some improvement and some compeditors gone. I cant complain.
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