News Source: http://www.seroundtable.com
Published: Nov 05, 2008 - 02:16 pm
Story Found By: theGypsy 1196 Days ago
Category: SEO
Search Engine Round Table - I decided to wait on reporting on this thread until Monday morning, to see if things settle. In short, webmasters were not happy. They saw low quality sites come into the search results, they thought Google went backwards. And they actually did.
Matt Cutts of Google made one of his now rare posts at WebmasterWorld explaining that this was a bug. At 11:57am (EST) on November 1st Matt said in reply to all the craziness going on:
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Thanks for the information. This "bug" actually greatly helped my primary site across all my keywords. I know not to get too excited, or depressed, by SERP changes on Google. I had made some site and link changes the week before and thought at first the SERPs I say were from that. Matt’s explanation:"Some data went into the index without all of our quality signals incorporated,"I sure wish I knew what those "quality signals" were. I think the "quality signals" were actually tightened and not unincorporated.
My friend’s informational site got nailed by these changes and didn’t even rank for its own name.
Yeah, I saw some strange things on some accounts... not on others. If I had the time, tracking down the various reports and seeing what exactly was happening would be fun if not informative... IF I had the time... ;0)
I wrote this up a few days before Barry, and also submitted to Sphinn:http://sphinn.com/story/82512Tsk that people don’t read what’s already submitted. :)
iBrianI’ll admit I don’t read every story submitted to Sphinn. Maybe you were ahead of the curve with your post. I didn’t realize there was a drastic change in the SERPs until over the weekend. Thanks for the link to your post.