Google's Current Wave of Updates (4/24 edition)
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Edit: Someone beat me to the punch, here is the thread: http://www.seomoz.org/q/google-webspam-algo-update-24-4-12
Let's just discuss it there.
So Google has said they are doing another wave of algorithm updates that could impact anywhere from 3-5% of SERPs. I saw it here:
http://searchengineland.com/google-launches-update-targeting-webspam-in-search-results-119295
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2012/04/another-step-to-reward-high-quality.html
Has anyone seen any changes? I've heard from a few friends that their sites are bouncing all over the place, which seems to happy a lot during these updates. We might not actually know the fallout for a few days/weeks/months.
I saw a few of my smaller sites take a hit, but most of mine have stayed the same.
Anyway what do you guys think? Sometimes an update like this can be a wake-up call to people who think they are doing white hat stuff but may be pushing the envelope a bit too much.
Thoughts?
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thanks for the notice on the matter. Had not seen the other posts yet. Can't really say how this impacts search in the Netherlands for now. It will probably be a couple of months again before the update hits europe.
When it does, i will let you know off course.
kind regards
Jarno
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