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DebSpecs Posts: 97 Joined: 1/4/2007 From: NY Status: offline	Heads up on recent widespread Google rank drop - 1/15/2008 17:32:46 I received this newsletter today about a recent change in Google rankings for old, established sites. Seems many are being booted to #6 from longstanding top 3 positions. Read on: "During the last few weeks, some webmasters noticed that some of their long term position 1 or position 2 rankings in Google suddenly ranked at position 6. The problem affected well established websites with a long history. The dropped web pages had long time rankings for popular search terms, usually on position 1. " The aricle concludes this is probably due to a new filter which penalizes pages when their inbound links almost always have the same exact anchor word which corresponds to the keyword in questions. Personally, i have seen this happen since the new year and have been baffled. But now it all makes sense! And yes, we do keep a daily blog that always uses the same anchor to our website. Hmmm! Here is a link the newsletter pointed to for more info: http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/3535274-1-10.htm Anyone have the same experience? (By the way, business is good regardless, so i'm not going to freak out too much. But i thought this was an interesting and potentially important note to bring up.)


jaybee Posts: 13784 Joined: 10/7/2003 From: Berkshire, UK Status: offline	RE: Heads up on recent widespread Google rank drop - 1/15/2008 19:20:30 Yes, I posted elsewhere that I've seen a lot of PR drops but I've been through and checked all my sites and client sites and, touch wood, they're all hanging on to their No. 1, 2 or 3 page positions for their targetted search terms. _____________________________ If it ain't broke..... fix it until it is. GAWDS Now where did I put that Doctype? (in reply to DebSpecs)


womble Posts: 5445 Joined: 3/14/2005 From: Living on the edge Status: offline	RE: Heads up on recent widespread Google rank drop - 1/15/2008 19:37:14 Same here. PR's dropped but they've stayed where they are in the positions. _____________________________ ~~ "A cruel god ain't no god at all" ~~ (in reply to jaybee)