Unnamed Update — February 4, 2015
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Does anyone have any more information about this shift in the search rankings.
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For us it seemed to affect few SERPs but those it did impact were highly competitive.
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I have heard speculation that it had to to with whether your site was mobile friendly or not. I don't believe this to be the case however since it impacted us nagatively and we have been mobile friendly (per google's test) since a year before this update.
https://moz.com/google-algorithm-change
Our website has clean backlinks and all original content.
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Unfortunately, there's not a lot of good info out there on this update. Can you give us any insight on the keywords/URLs you saw impacted?
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