Google Update on the 6th July
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Hi Mozzers,
Has anyone noticed a Google update on the 6th July?
A price comparison site I optimise has fallen off the SERPs for most generic terms, however still getting traffic for longer tail phrases.
Cheers
Aran
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Keep in mind that PageRank is based soly on the backlinks pointing to your site. Having a "nice site" won't directly influence PageRank in any way. Also, PageRank is only 1 of many Google ranking factors...I recommend that you not pay too much attention to it.
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Our previous site was complete flash with ZERO html pages. It and all the other pages were PR2. I think we had PR2 because we had a nice site, but Google had no way to verify what was really there.
We redesigned our site and removed almost all of the Flash. This was about 3-4 months ago. Google dropped all of our pages from PR2 to PR0.
Spent a lot of time prior to 7/6 improving things here and there. On 7/6 our home page jumped from PR0 to PR4 and a few went from PR0 to PR2. Most of the other pages remain at PR0.
We are still improving many things on our site. I can't wait until Google re-rates us. I'm pretty sure it's going to be a good thing.
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Yes, it's a lot to do, and only time will tell how much we have to do to get results...
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I've done a similar thing today,
1. Removed thin, stale pages from sitemap and implement noindex.
2. Begun to revise Duplicate content, however i have many many pages populated by xml feeds on a daily basis. eek...
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My current strategy is to
- Reduce the number of duplicate content pages by adding noindex tags to pages that don't really need to be indexed.
- Add unique content to pages with duplicate content that I do want to be indexed.
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it may be worth us swapping some ideas/findings.
if I find anything of value, I'll be sure to let you know.
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Yes, a site I worked with lost all traffic on the 6th. See http://www.seomoz.org/q/website-penalized-3-times-by-google
It sounds like it was a change in the duplicate content algorithms.
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