Google Algorithm Update July 30, 2012 - Anyone else notice a major drop in keyword rankings
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From July 30th to the 31st many of my keyword rankings in Google plumited 30 spots or more. Has anyone else notice this on their site? Does anyone have any idea for the presumed penalty?
I can PM my site information if needed for further assistance. As always thank you for the assistance, and any help in this matter is greatly appreciated!
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Thanks for the response. We'll just have to keep an eye open and see what changes we have this week.
Thanks for your feedback
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Had some major changes to our sites. As much as 29 spots drop for three sites. More than that is that our sites are moving up and down the rankings weekly by as much as 10 spots. Sites that were built more than 3 years ago are suffering the most.
Need to get some stability back into our rankings. Any advice for the immediate future would be much appreciated.
We are in South Africa.
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You can check out the other thread I mentioned, and SeoMoz has a new feature available MozCast which allows you to view the Google Algorithm flux graphically (very basic at the moment, but definitely something nice to assuage your fears/insanity haha).
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Dr. Pete provides some insight into the issue on a similar question found here: http://www.seomoz.org/q/mozcast-com-what-happened-on-the-27th-hottest-day-of-the-month . But basically everyone is still investigating and no one is exactly sure yet it seems. I'm sure more people will begin to notice an issue as their weekly rankings roll out. Hopefully we will all be able to figure it out and rebound, because we have seemingly been doing everything right thus far, just as you've stated Chad.
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I noticed my UK site increased drastically in rankings. Both my Canadian and US sites didn't see much of a change, nothing out of the ordinary… up and down a few spots like usual.
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I feel a lot better reading this. I've had a few just disappear. We had keywords that rank #2 and just are gone. We don't have any warnings, we have tons of unique content(updated constantly)clean links. Traffic dropped. We do everything by the book and have a very thought out plan including press releases, croos posting on social, blogging, guest blogging ,etc. I noticed hayneedle.com filled page after page of poor quality page links for each of these keywords and amazon pages promoting their site. I'm losing my mind but our domain authority increased etc. hopefully this is just a bump in the road. Love any help for anyone wwww.thegardengates.com
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Not in the UK, and we have never had any warnings in GWT. I read somewhere about a US update on the 24th but have no data to confirm/deny. Definitely something happened though because we had about 30 keywords plummet from page 1 to 3-4 overnight. And our Bing SERP rankings have remained the same.
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Are you by chance in the UK? SERoundtable announced a possible Penguin refresh this week in the UK. But, I haven't seen anything else that supports this.
Do you have any warnings in your webmaster tools?
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Multiple domains and many keywords. There's another user with a similar question with the change happening on the 28th: http://www.seomoz.org/q/mozcast-com-what-happened-on-the-27th-hottest-day-of-the-month
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Hi, I did not see any major changes around this date. Was it across different URLs as well as keywords or was it a single URL?
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I did not notice any noticeable change across any of my sites. But it may take a few days to notice. Good luck.
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