Is something strange going on with Google last few days?? Seeing strange results for competitive keywords
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I am seeing some very strange results for competitive keywords.
If I search on google.co.uk for "website design" which I feel is a pretty tough keyword. I see a site called http://www.techdesigns.co.uk/
If you go to the site its a laptop review site with no mention of website design on the site. They seem to be an Amazon Affiliate
They have 23,597 links saying website design but mostly from adult websites.
I have seen this on a few result related to SEO but dont want to mention any names in case we upset anyone on the forum.
How can they rank for such a competitive keyword without onpage? Surely Panda should have hit this site?
Why have they not been hit by Penguin so many adult links?
Sorry if this is anyones site on here I am not looking to get you banned or hit just stumps me why this site ranks.
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Yes I am seeing some very strange results too.
This morning I did a search for "http timeout error" and got a list of results that had wikipedia at the top followed by over 50 results for Time-Out magazine, not a very helpful set of results.
Also since the last know updates I have notice a 40% or increase in the amout of organic traffic coming from Bing and Ask (e.g. gone up from 100 visits per day to 140 per day), has anyone else seen this?
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I think I you look at anchor text ratio on inbounds it's quite penguin friendly. Not too weighted. A
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They probably won't last. People will go from the Google search results pages to these sites and if they offer nothing of use return to the search results page. Google data will now show high bounce rate which will affect their ranking. It's a genuine indicator of usefulness IMO.
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Yeah you will see some poor sites of old coming back.
But surely Panda update would hit your site so you do not rank for a competitive keyword such as "website design"
Its beyond me how you can rank for that phrase without any onpage or mentioning anything to do with the subject.
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Not sure - but now that you can disallow links im sure we will start seeing link profiles that are nasty but are ranking due to the disallow tool
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