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Discussion in 'SEO Search Engine Optimisation' started by murph, May 21, 2014.

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  1. murph United Kingdom

    murph Well-Known Member

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    Any UK webmasters noticed anything yet?
     
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    Some of my old affiliate sites (well aged and updated) have popped to page 1 (and some in top spot) on exact match searches.
     
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    Congrats... when MC says "starting today" just wondering how long the palpitations will last this time...
     
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    these sites typically sit around page 2-3, so be interesting.

    I only noticed because I had a £5 commission come in at 12:46pm, so I googled the term and noticed that sites moved from top of page 2, to top of page 1. Lets hope the commission's roll in while I'm there :p

    I googled a few others, and not found any which have dropped massively.
     
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    So Panda is about how google perceives the quality of the site, I wonder if the age of the site (not the name), with regular (ish) updates, plays a part in that. One which which I haven't updated in 2014, has dropped a little, not drastic.

    I don't really concern myself too much with google games, I just do what I do :)
     
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    feels shameful to be doing seo in 40's - you guns game..
     
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  11. murph United Kingdom

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    So... Anyone else seen any movements within the .co.uk index?
     
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    I have one in the health sector which has moved up to middle of page 1, from bottom of page one which I noticed today. I have just moved that from the .co.uk to the .com (which I bought), so could be related to that.

    Also had a EMD wiped out, from page 1/2 its now not even on the first 10 pages, so first casualty.
     
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    The Payday update is a funny one imo.

    Have a look at the current rankings for the term payday loans and you will see Money Saving expert, The Guardian, a bunch of Google News items, Adviceguide and Stepchange on page one.

    There also are a few payday companies but it seems most are other sites...

    So Google went from banning a lot of blackhat (and proper) sites which would send people looking for a loan to the right page to compiling a list of trustworthy sites which are related to loans?

    Not the best user experience I think... If I am looking for a loan I am not looking for advice but looking for a loan.

    I have to point out, I am not a supporter of the blackhat sites but this "Payday update" seems to have wiped out a lot of sites which were genuine and is now showing slightly relevant sites.
     
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    Ahh, but then maybe people are more likely to click on the adwords :p works out well for google
     
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    Don't be evil....They must have thrown that out of the window years ago :D
     
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    Something else... Not entirely related to this update.

    I have heard of companies buying searches for a certain brand/keyword(and then clicking on a certain site) to manipulate search results.

    Interesting one
     
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    One market that I used to rank a lot of affiliate sites in with great results was ghd hair straighteners, used to have a bumper season every Christmas, but this update seems to have really begun sorting that out. My last site that was ranking well was hit by the last panda update, but up until this new update, google serps for searches like "cheap ghd straighteners" were still flooded with spammy sites (mostly china fakes sellers). Now though, page 1 looks pretty decent - GHD official site, Argos, Amazon, eBay, Gumtree, HotUKDeals, and just 3 spam sites (one has managed to cling on to #2, but it's a dead site). This is definitely one historically ultra-spammy market that Google have successfully begun clearing up.
     
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    A lot of DMCA complaints at the bottom, have they always been there? or was it cleared out with DMCA's rather than updates
     
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    No they've always been there! GHD have been waging a constant war for years, mainly against the counterfeit sellers, but also against trademark infringement (nearly came a cropper once myself). Over the last year or so, the sites dominating the rankings for these sorts of terms moved from standard emd / kwd phrase domains (which is what I used to do), to the hosted blogs (like the one in #2) and hijacked dropped domains (like the one at the bottom of page 1 on burnfootholidaycottages.co.uk) which is what the counterfeiters moved to, and I couldn't be bothered.
     
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