What Happened on the 17th?
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Alright, what gives? Something major with Google SERPs went down on Jan. 17th. I have a site that was ranking well for 7 keywords - normal fluctuations from page 1-3, for 8 months. We never had any issues with Panda/Penguin and in fact, Nov./Dec. were excellent months.
Then BAM, on the 17th all but 2 keywords tanked...not even in the top 100! 2 remain on page 2/3 - very odd....I've seen lots of talk about something happening...anyone have a better idea or even KNOW what happened?
Thank you!
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Oh this was/is major. I had one keyword go from # 8 to #480
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My 2nd big key word dropped from #2 to 7-8 and now it is finally back up to two. I was so excited to reach #2...when the fall happened I just thought well time to start doing more SEO.
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With my site - no not yet. However, Brian did shed some light on the issue and was very helpful.
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Did you figure out what went wrong?
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Brian, thank you for taking the time to call me and help me with this issue!
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Yes, I know about Panda...but this stuff happened on the evening of the 17th - we dropped like a rock./
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Barry Schwartz wrote about a new Panda update from Google, a couple of days ago...
http://searchengineland.com/google-panda-update-version-24-1-2-of-search-queries-impacted-146149
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It's frustrating - not because it happened, but because I don;t know WHAT happened and if I don't know what happened I can't fix it!
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Same problem here! All white hat in-house SEO work with nothing changing on our end, and then a big drop in early-mid Jan. Haven't seen any Google updates though that would explain this...?
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Interesting! Traffic isn't too bad - my guess is that's because we use cpc too and maybe the keywords that tanked didn't bring in much organic traffic anyway but some of my keywords went from #11 to #370!
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There was another post on this on the 19th or so. There was some sort of update and traffic to a few of my sites are down as well.
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Hey there - I think we chatted in another thread
Why wouldn't they mention this?? Hmmmm...
thanks for you help
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