Survey for all those that LOST rankings...

avatar33

avatar33

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Ok based on what I'm seeing here in the forum and in the Skype chats, a LOT of people have experienced SERP drops, including some experts that have been dominating their space for years. Like many of you, I'm not too sure what Google is doing as some of my shittiest sites have gone up, and some of my top sites have gone down. The landscape has completely changed in many of my niches, mostly for the worse.

I've designed a little survey that will help us pin-point the typical profile of a targeted website here... So please go ahead and answer these questions based on your sites that have been hit only...

#1 - Were your sites on shared accounts? (e.g. HostGator, Bluehost, HostMonster, etc...)

#2 - Were your sites mostly EMDs?

#3 - What percentage of your 1st layer backlinks have been acquired through automation and/or BST services? (Grey/Blue/Black hat)

#4 - Have you been actively SEO'ing the sites when they got hit?

#5 - Were your sites socially optimized? (Facebook fan page, Twitter profile, Google+ page, etc...)

#6 - Were you adding unique & relevant content on a regular basis? (once a week at the very least)

#7 - What's the average domain age of the sites that got hit? (less than 6 months, 6-12 months, 12 months+)
 


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1. All 3
2. Yes
3. 90-100%
4. Yes and No (for some I do, for some I don't)
5. not at all
6. not at all. Honestly most of my sites are 1 page
7. In all ranges (Only 10% of my sites usually get hit, some do better too. Never got any domains de indexed.)

Still most of my websites are fine and some got hit as usual. Nothing strang!
 
#1 - Mostly Bluehost, some Hostgator. Bigger sites on dedicated server.
#2 - Mostly partial keyword domains.
#3 - Blog posts, blogrolls, comments, social bookmarking, web2.0s etc. Had never received a GWT msg.
#4 - Yes to SEO'ing.
#5 - Not much social really.
#6 - Lots of fresh content.
#7 - Mixed age. The big money sites were around 3 yrs old.

= Anchor links are to blame IMO. Agree with Gorilla that you just need to give it some time to settle down, but have a feeling that the damage could have been done. Setup a new blog tonight that is designed to easily milk Google (trends), but it will be just as focused for Facebook/Twitter etc. Another new one will be setup solely for PPC that will obv take some time. Am a complete newb to paid traffic.

This will be a losing battle for most. The biggest lesson has been that there is far too much reliance on Google. That's not good business. They have sent me more money and traffic than anyone else over the years, but I kinda still want to see them crash and burn. Facebook are more than capable of doing that to them. Good luck bros.
 
#1 - Shared & VPS, Hostgator, Knownhost etc

#2 - EMDs, Partial Keyword, Brandable

#3 - most

#4 - some yes, some not

#5 - some were some didn't

#6 - once/twice a week, sometimes often, some sites were without fresh content

#7 - less than 6months, more than 12+, more than 2 years
 
tomaszjot said:
#1 - Shared & VPS, Hostgator, Knownhost etc

#2 - EMDs, Partial Keyword, Brandable

#3 - most

#4 - some yes, some not

#5 - some were some didn't

#6 - once/twice a week, sometimes often, some sites were without fresh content

#7 - less than 6months, more than 12+, more than 2 years
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Not sure if tomaszjot
 
Instrumentalist said:
Yeah, because one questionnaire on WF is going to pinpoint anything and solve all of our SEO problems.
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Not if a < 10 people answer, but if we have a large enough pool of answers, we can perhaps find some patterns. If you have a better suggestion, I'm listening...

An important question that I forgot to add was whether or not your sites were on WordPress. Interestingly enough, my Non-WordPress sites were unaffected, even though the same link building techniques were used. Can't conclude anything from my own experience, but still it's interesting to try to understand...
 
my sites are WP too, using standard theme like most spammers lol

can that play a factor you guys think?
 
avatar33 said:
It's been way more than 24 hours chuk D. Since January the SERPs have been as volatile as the Greek economy, but yeah let's wait and see. Maybe that's what the Mayas were talking about!
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I had a good lol from your post, thank you.

But yeah, give it a week for this latest significant update. At least.
 
#1 - yes no

#2 - yes no

#3 - 1-100%

#4 - yes no maybe

#5 - yes no maybe

#6 - sometimes maybe

#7 - 1-10yrs



kind of being a smartass, but not really. no rhyme or reason to any of this shit.

NEW SURVEY in 48 HOURS SHIT IS DANCING STILL
 
avatar33 said:
Ok based on what I'm seeing here in the forum and in the Skype chats, a LOT of people have experienced SERP drops, including some experts that have been dominating their space for years. Like many of you, I'm not too sure what Google is doing as some of my shittiest sites have gone up, and some of my top sites have gone down. The landscape has completely changed in many of my niches, mostly for the worse.

I've designed a little survey that will help us pin-point the typical profile of a targeted website here... So please go ahead and answer these questions based on your sites that have been hit only...

#1 - Were your sites on shared accounts? (e.g. HostGator, Bluehost, HostMonster, etc...)

#2 - Were your sites mostly EMDs?

#3 - What percentage of your 1st layer backlinks have been acquired through automation and/or BST services? (Grey/Blue/Black hat)

#4 - Have you been actively SEO'ing the sites when they got hit?

#5 - Were your sites socially optimized? (Facebook fan page, Twitter profile, Google+ page, etc...)

#6 - Were you adding unique & relevant content on a regular basis? (once a week at the very least)

#7 - What's the average domain age of the sites that got hit? (less than 6 months, 6-12 months, 12 months+)
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1: No. All the important ones were on their own VPS with dedicated IP.

2: Yes

3: <30% to homepage. >80% to internal pages. Internal pages have lost rankings too. Entire sites have disappeared from SERPs.

4: No.

5: Most were not.

6: No.

7: 2+ years old ALL of them.


This is some weird shit. Private WHOIS and generic nameservers as well.

The only sites that haven't gotten fucked are the ones with links from wikipedia.
 
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