Google Announced Algorithm Update Through Week of July 4th

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   Paul Edmondsonposted 11 years ago

   There was a tweet from Matt Cutts announcing a multi-week algorithm update that will last through the week of July 4th.  I haven't heard if this is the Panda softening or something else...Just a heads up that it's rolling out.

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      paradigmsearchposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      
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         Hikapoposted 11 years agoin reply to this

         Lol..
         
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         agilitymachposted 11 years agoin reply to this

         Snicker

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         susi10posted 11 years agoin reply to this

         

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         Woodmckinneyposted 11 years agoin reply to this

         Hahaha!!! you just made my day!

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      Paul Edmondsonposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      If you're curious, there is quite a bit of chatter about this update and things like mozcast show signs of changes, but we aren't really seeing anything too significant.    We think that May 8th/9th was an unannounced panda update.  Very few algo changes besides Panda tend to significantly impact us, so this may very well be something different.  Unless, the long rollout means Panda impact is still coming.....

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         paradigmsearchposted 11 years agoin reply to this

         Whatever is going on, I'm extremely happy with it. This is the best traffic I've seen in quite some time.

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            pinappuposted 11 years agoin reply to this

            Is your super long titles are liked by big G?

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      Savio Dawsonposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Yipee!!!!

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   HollieTposted 11 years ago

   I hope it's already started to roll out, because Google's just started to be exceedingly nice to my hubs!

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   Writer Foxposted 11 years ago

   It started last Friday.
   
   Barry Schwartz made this post about it:
   http://www.seroundtable.com/google-upda … 16981.html
   
   I know you follow him, Paul, and respect his comments.  He also said that the target was spam queries, not necessarily Panda. "Matt said that this impacts about 0.3% of U.S. queries but up to 4% or so of Turkish queries where spam is a larger part of the index there."
   
   In the light of that, I noticed on the Quantcast 'real time' feature that HubPages is getting a lot of hits from Turkey.  Why is that?

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      janderson99posted 11 years agoin reply to this

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         Writer Foxposted 11 years agoin reply to this

         Seriously?  I thought MTurks had to be in America.

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            janderson99posted 11 years agoin reply to this

            just joking

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               Writer Foxposted 11 years agoin reply to this

               It was funny.

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   PaulGoodman67posted 11 years ago

   Thanks for the info, Paul E and Writer Fox.  I guess, as usual, we will have to see how it pans out over the next couple of weeks.

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   findwholenessposted 11 years ago

   I agree, my hubs have been doing awesome in the last week or so. My traffic bumped up enough that I'll get my first payout this month (my first hub was in April).

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      Woodmckinneyposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Wooo!!!! Congrats!!

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   Paul Edmondsonposted 11 years ago

   I'm not seeing much movement across hubs, but there are some noticeable gains in QnA so far.

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      janderson99posted 11 years agoin reply to this

      No real recovery since the May 9 slump
      
      

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   twentyfiveposted 11 years ago

   Thank you for the update Paul

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   Astra Nomikposted 11 years ago

   Thank you for the news update, Paul. My hubs are now all featured. Phew. I hope this one goes okay for everyone.

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   PaulGoodman67posted 11 years ago

   I am seeing one or two hubs experiencing traffic surges.  It will be temporary, I'm sure.  But it's the sort of thing that happens during algo updates.

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    Marcy Goodfleischposted 11 years ago

    Thanks for keeping us informed, Paul - I am seeing red arrows in a few hubs (nice to see them!), but traffic is still very much down from what it was two months ago.  *sigh*

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       SmartAndFunposted 11 years agoin reply to this

       Mine too. I'm glad to see that I'm in good company, Marcy.

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       aa liteposted 11 years agoin reply to this

       Yep, no improvement in my traffic here.  Honestly it all worked so well March 14th-May 9th, why couldn't they just keep it that way????

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          PaulGoodman67posted 11 years agoin reply to this

          I know.  Roll out period is supposed to be up to around the 4th July, so there's still hope, I guess.

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    Mark Ewbieposted 11 years ago

    I'll just say this.
    
    The reason for constantly changing the algorithm is that they still cannot get it right.  It is an admission that they, their programmers, designers, people in charge, are useless. 
    
    The constant release of updates and incoherent tweets from the humorless moron called Matt Cutts - who is regarded as a guru simply by the fact that he appears to wield power.. although not control - demonstrates how utterly rubbish this whole exercise has been.
    
    It has taken this monopoly abusing, tax-evading, eavesdropping corporation over TWO YEARS of tweaking and fiddling around...
    
    ... and they still can't get it right!.
    
    Anyone else would have been sacked long ago.  It is pathetic.

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       paradigmsearchposted 11 years agoin reply to this

       Seriously, what do you really think?

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       aa liteposted 11 years agoin reply to this

       Yep, you'd think after 2 years of "focusing on quality" there would be some stability in the SERPs.  But then if they "crack it" Mr Cutts, and all his minions will probably be out of a job, so you can see why they keep finding things to "fix".

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       sabrebIadeposted 11 years agoin reply to this

       Wow Mark...you said exactly what I feel.
       ::sniff::

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          Mark Ewbieposted 11 years agoin reply to this

          Lol... don't set me off again!

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       aa liteposted 11 years agoin reply to this

       You mean the Moses of SEO?  http://www.techwyse.com/blog/search-eng … -to-avoid/
       
       The link is to a pretty funny picture of the 10 commandments according to Matt.  Actually I think it is pretty rubbish, HP is not guilty of most of them (except maybe 9) and yet we keep getting slapped.

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          Mark Ewbieposted 11 years agoin reply to this

          Great pic of Matt.

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    Anamika Sposted 11 years ago

    I really hope the Google Algorithm update turns to be good for all of us.

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    Solarasposted 11 years ago

    I experienced a slight increase in traffic last week (10%), but now over the last 2 days it seems to have dropped by 50%.

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    Nell Roseposted 11 years ago

    I look at it this way, as every other time that google mess around with all the pandas, elephants and a couple of meercats, maybe this time it will make us all rich I say, Rich ha ha ha ha ha....sorry, a moment of madness there! lol!

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    paradigmsearchposted 11 years ago

    Traffic not bad for a Sunday.

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    Dale Hydeposted 11 years ago

    My traffic average can not drop too much lower, however, maybe I will log in one day soon and "owe" views and have negative numbers reflecting in my stats!
    
    

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       Solarasposted 11 years agoin reply to this

       lol!!

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          Solarasposted 11 years agoin reply to this

          I did have some negative numbers the other day  - seems to have corrected itself.

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    janderson99posted 11 years ago

    Sadly, Quantcast shows that Pageviews (US) today, are the lowest since Christmas.

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    Pinkchic18posted 11 years ago

    LOVE the pic, so true! lol

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    janderson99posted 11 years ago

    Love the CPM boost  - way to go!

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       susi10posted 11 years agoin reply to this

       Yes, the CPM has gone up!

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          janderson99posted 11 years agoin reply to this

          I wonder whether its because of the start of the month,  or because the shared revenue ad, on the left, right of the bottom of the page, has been restored - It went AWOL for a few days!
          Anyway hope springs eternal  - finally some good news!

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             susi10posted 11 years agoin reply to this

             Yes, I was wondering that myself...
             At least that is something for us to celebrate about!

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    Astra Nomikposted 11 years ago

    My traffic and page reads are rising. Yaaay.  I don't know who to thank, but.... yaaaaaaaayyy. LOL

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    Greekgeekposted 11 years ago

    My Hub traffic and daily earnings have been climbing through this whole stretch as well.
    
    Stop being tempting, HP! I was leaving my hub portfolio to percolate for a while, taking time off from third party platforms to work on making my own websites and blogs more effective. (Traffic? Traffic I can do. Monetization? Ahahahaha.)

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    brakel2posted 11 years ago

    Some of my great traffic- getters have moved  to second page.  Boo hoo. But congrats to y'all with good news.

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