Ranking drops over weekend

[Aran_Smithson]

Hi all,

Has anyone noticed any ranking changes over the weekend?

I've noticed an almost uniform drop of a few positions across almost all of my chosen phrases. Nothing major has occurred on our site, no messages in webmaster tools. An analysis of our competitors positions (which we track the top 10) doesn't reveal any clues.

Cheers

Aran

[acs111]

I can confirm that 70 of our sites were hit over the weekend. It started happening about Thursday of last week.

Some of the sites were number 1 for keywords and now they're off the chart.

But honestly, the sites were of low quality and we have been advising the client for some time about over optimisation so this comes as no surprise.

Other sites we deal with who also have EMD have been unaffected. There's a lot of pissed people out there after this one.

They could've at least named it after another back & white animal!

[vforvinnie]

Over the weekend (spillover from last week I assume) there was some more changes in regards to exact match domain names.  From what I have heard, it is impacting lower quality exact match domain names as well as redirects from those domain names.

I have seen a significant dip on one of my sites that has a redirect from cheap-productname.biz, and think that is the reason why.  I am going to give it some time for the dust to settle before doing anything about it.

http://www.seroundtable.com/google-emd-update-15776.html

[polarking]

I have not lost any traffic over the weekend. One thing you may want to look at is google insights to see if the keywords have a trend for dipping at specific times of the week, month, or year

[Aran_Smithson]

Thanks for that, its always nice to get a second opinion.

thanks

Aran

[eyepaq]

However my question is simply, has anyone noticed any changes? perhaps to indicate a shift in the algorithm?

** Personally I didn't see any changes in visibility over the weekend for the 220+ websites I have in my watch list but again, the number is low and won't mean there was no big change over the weekend.

However, looking at your visibility it looks like you've moved up since the beginning of the year a lot but there is no steady trend. You have a lot of spikes up and down so if you've seen a some movements over the weekend it could be based on this - your authority is not settled yet but the trend looks very positive overall and you still rank very well for a lot of keywords.

Let's take "Coat Hangers" for example. There is a lot of competition for it and some high players for the query in serps - it make sense to move up and down and even so you still hold a very strong position. With the competition there including adsense blocks you are still very well as position based on your domain authority.

In my opinion (personal opinion) I would say it's a normal movement and you can probably see a better picture in a few days when most of the visibility indexes are updates.

Hope it helps.

[Aran_Smithson]

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Coat Hangers
Clothes Hangers
Hangers
Flocked Hangers

Wooden Hangers

www.hangerworld.co.uk

However my question is simply, has anyone noticed any changes? perhaps to indicate a shift in the algorithm?

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[eyepaq]

Hi,

Can you post the url and the phrases you've used ?