Wednesday, December 28, 2005
Google's BIG UPDATE
Okay here goes. I know I have had a discussion with Caryl in the past about a theory of a Christmas update mixing up the serp's to push adwords as well as push Christmas related sites to the top whiole the rest of us drop off. Now if this theory is true then I just realised where I might have made a horrible mistake prior to Christmas this year... Our main site is a wheel and tire site.. This year for Jagger we dropped off the map for the most part.. Now last year I remember the serp's being all messed up however My site (if memory serves me correctly did fine) However last year on many pages I put " wheels & tires make great Christmas gifts" as well as a couple of other ctchy frases for Christmas... This year I did not do that and boom look what happened.. I only started thinking about this after reading these 2 posts on Webmaster World.
Post 1 "caution: wild theory follows
I follow these update topics just like everyone else when my site drops in the rankings for no apparent reason. My site, for the last 3 years, has dropped dramatically in the rankings just prior the "Christmas" buying season(middle/beginning of Nov.) only to return to its previous identical/near identical ranking very soon after Christmas. No changes to the site at all. This year is no exception. The "jagger" update dropped my consistent top 10 ranking to anywhere from 180-500. Guess what happened yesterday? I have jumped back to the top 10 to my original pre-"jagger" position.
I am not convinced that there was actually a "jagger" update. My theory is that the pre-christmas "update" (every year for past 3 years) is really a completely seperate index not just an algo change to help push retail sales type sites to the front for searchers looking to shop for Christmas or something along those lines."
Post 2 "You may not be so crazy. For the past two years, my Christmas site has shot up in the rankings right before the season, and then lost them again right after Christmas. This morning, all my fabulous rankings are gone (just like last year). Luckily, for me, my rankings were good during the time period I needed them to be.
I have been under the assumption that traffic had a lot to do with it. If G sees people going to the site, it ups the rankings. If G sees a dropoff, it drops the rankings. However, your theory could hold some water as well.
There's definitely a pattern developing with my site...just not sure what the pattern means yet."
I was ridiculled real bad for bringing up this theory on another forum.. So bad I believed I was probably wrong.. Well Now I am believing that maybe I was right to begin with.. What if Jagger was just a cloud of smoke brought on to cover up something else? I do see that the results on the test DC are very simialer to pre jagger...
Thoughts please and thanks for listening.
Todd
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Post 1 "caution: wild theory follows
I follow these update topics just like everyone else when my site drops in the rankings for no apparent reason. My site, for the last 3 years, has dropped dramatically in the rankings just prior the "Christmas" buying season(middle/beginning of Nov.) only to return to its previous identical/near identical ranking very soon after Christmas. No changes to the site at all. This year is no exception. The "jagger" update dropped my consistent top 10 ranking to anywhere from 180-500. Guess what happened yesterday? I have jumped back to the top 10 to my original pre-"jagger" position.
I am not convinced that there was actually a "jagger" update. My theory is that the pre-christmas "update" (every year for past 3 years) is really a completely seperate index not just an algo change to help push retail sales type sites to the front for searchers looking to shop for Christmas or something along those lines."
Post 2 "You may not be so crazy. For the past two years, my Christmas site has shot up in the rankings right before the season, and then lost them again right after Christmas. This morning, all my fabulous rankings are gone (just like last year). Luckily, for me, my rankings were good during the time period I needed them to be.
I have been under the assumption that traffic had a lot to do with it. If G sees people going to the site, it ups the rankings. If G sees a dropoff, it drops the rankings. However, your theory could hold some water as well.
There's definitely a pattern developing with my site...just not sure what the pattern means yet."
I was ridiculled real bad for bringing up this theory on another forum.. So bad I believed I was probably wrong.. Well Now I am believing that maybe I was right to begin with.. What if Jagger was just a cloud of smoke brought on to cover up something else? I do see that the results on the test DC are very simialer to pre jagger...
Thoughts please and thanks for listening.
Todd
_________________
http://www.vermontwebmasters.com
http://www.vermontshoppingnetwork.com
http://www.barretire.com
