Did anyone Rankings drop massively last weekend ...Is this new google update ?
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Hi all,
My Site rankings took a battering in the past week , From what I have read, I know that google have updated their algorithm and supposedly it only affects less than 1% of queries but I was very surprised to have fallen in that list...
Just wondered, am i the only site to have been hammered this past week ? or is it more of a case that maybe the new algorithm means I need to be more savvy with our SEO.
Just posting a quick general consensus question ...
thanks
Sarah
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Hi Russ,
Our traffic had gone down a little bit earlier in June but ....
We first got an message on 22nd June - in GWT - Googlebot found an extremely high number of URLs on your site.
Then on 26th June , 80% of our rankings for our keywords fell off a cliff. We don't know if it was the refresh from the panda update or if it was the google bot problem.
We have never had this message beforebut noticed we had some dodgy urls being produced from our site. We don't know how long this has been going on for but wasnt sure if either the googlebot changed it's way of working or we just so happenned for the Panda refresh to happen a couple of days after the message.
I would have thought that our rankings would have suffered on 11th June if it was the Panda that done it.
In the meantime, we have put 301 redirects on the dodgy urls
thanks
Sarah.
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Did you lose your rankings on 1 particular day or did it happen over a few? Did you get an unnatural links notice in Google Webmaster Tools? Did you lose your rankings for all keywords or just a few you had been working on? Did you get knocked back to page 2 or just lose some rankings but remained on Page 1?
Sorry, but all these questions are a part of the diagnosis of what caused the rankings loss.
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