Comments on: Google Mayday Update and SERP Changes http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/google-mayday-update-and-serp-changes.htm Learn How to Build and Market Niche Websites Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:32:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: SEO SearchTerms Tagging 2 Footprint Removal | Niche Store Builder http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/google-mayday-update-and-serp-changes.htm#comment-19938 SEO SearchTerms Tagging 2 Footprint Removal | Niche Store Builder Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:06:12 +0000 http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/?p=2172#comment-19938 [...] to make sure I clean up after myself when using certain tools, plugins or themes. Ever since the Google MayDay update, I have been on an optimization tear… In the process of cleaning up code to speed up [...]<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('19938','SEO SearchTerms Tagging 2 Footprint Removal | Niche Store Builder'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('19938','SEO SearchTerms Tagging 2 Footprint Removal | Niche Store Builder','[...] to make sure I clean up after myself when using certain tools, plugins or themes. Ever since the Google MayDay update, I have been on an optimization tear… In the process of cleaning up code to speed up [...]'); return false;">Quote</a></div> [...] to make sure I clean up after myself when using certain tools, plugins or themes. Ever since the Google MayDay update, I have been on an optimization tear… In the process of cleaning up code to speed up [...]
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]]> By: Neva http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/google-mayday-update-and-serp-changes.htm#comment-18816 Neva Sun, 16 May 2010 16:53:04 +0000 http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/?p=2172#comment-18816 Thanks for the encouraging words Mark. By the way, love your photo. I checked out your site. It is extremely well-designed. I am a sort of hunt and peck html coder, don't even know how to do css. So, for my sites to have ranked as long as they have is sort of a miracle already. I think it helps that metaphysics and etheric alchemy and such things are niches within themselves. However, I've also been lucky in rankings for holistic health stuff and, as I'm sure you know, that is not a niche but a wide, wide, wide promotion area on the internet. So....can't complain really, but probably will anyway, ha. Anyhow, very nice to meet you.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('18816','Neva'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('18816','Neva','Thanks for the encouraging words Mark. By the way, love your photo. \r\n\r\nI checked out your site. It is extremely well-designed. I am a sort of hunt and peck html coder, don\'t even know how to do css. So, for my sites to have ranked as long as they have is sort of a miracle already. I think it helps that metaphysics and etheric alchemy and such things are niches within themselves. However, I\'ve also been lucky in rankings for holistic health stuff and, as I\'m sure you know, that is not a niche but a wide, wide, wide promotion area on the internet. So....can\'t complain really, but probably will anyway, ha.\r\n\r\nAnyhow, very nice to meet you.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Thanks for the encouraging words Mark. By the way, love your photo.

I checked out your site. It is extremely well-designed. I am a sort of hunt and peck html coder, don’t even know how to do css. So, for my sites to have ranked as long as they have is sort of a miracle already. I think it helps that metaphysics and etheric alchemy and such things are niches within themselves. However, I’ve also been lucky in rankings for holistic health stuff and, as I’m sure you know, that is not a niche but a wide, wide, wide promotion area on the internet. So….can’t complain really, but probably will anyway, ha.

Anyhow, very nice to meet you.

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]]> By: Mark Hansen http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/google-mayday-update-and-serp-changes.htm#comment-18815 Mark Hansen Sun, 16 May 2010 16:44:57 +0000 http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/?p=2172#comment-18815 Nice to meet you Neva... Yeah, the changes have been crazy for sure. Overall, its nothing that unexpected... think sites continue to struggle, good content sites continue to do better! :-)<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('18815','Mark Hansen'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('18815','Mark Hansen','Nice to meet you Neva... Yeah, the changes have been crazy for sure. Overall, its nothing that unexpected... think sites continue to struggle, good content sites continue to do better! :-)'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Nice to meet you Neva… Yeah, the changes have been crazy for sure. Overall, its nothing that unexpected… think sites continue to struggle, good content sites continue to do better! :-)
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]]> By: Neva http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/google-mayday-update-and-serp-changes.htm#comment-18814 Neva Sun, 16 May 2010 15:25:39 +0000 http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/?p=2172#comment-18814 I'm fascinated by the rapid changes I'm seeing in analytics. If I didn't need this income to pay my bills, I could be amused. About the time I think that my targeted keywords are not working anymore, it all shifts and my site starts coming up again. I remember all the other google changes and this one seems the most volatile to me personally. My market is health and spirituality. I don't know if the drastic shifts are in any way exclusive to health websites or spirituality articles but it sure is yo-yo-ville here.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('18814','Neva'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('18814','Neva','I\'m fascinated by the rapid changes I\'m seeing in analytics. If I didn\'t need this income to pay my bills, I could be amused. About the time I think that my targeted keywords are not working anymore, it all shifts and my site starts coming up again. I remember all the other google changes and this one seems the most volatile to me personally. My market is health and spirituality. I don\'t know if the drastic shifts are in any way exclusive to health websites or spirituality articles but it sure is yo-yo-ville here.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> I’m fascinated by the rapid changes I’m seeing in analytics. If I didn’t need this income to pay my bills, I could be amused. About the time I think that my targeted keywords are not working anymore, it all shifts and my site starts coming up again. I remember all the other google changes and this one seems the most volatile to me personally. My market is health and spirituality. I don’t know if the drastic shifts are in any way exclusive to health websites or spirituality articles but it sure is yo-yo-ville here.
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]]> By: paijem http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/google-mayday-update-and-serp-changes.htm#comment-18801 paijem Fri, 14 May 2010 07:24:28 +0000 http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/?p=2172#comment-18801 Hi all, I am also facing such problem. I don't know who to get over it. My question is, should we keep optimize our site by doing offpage optimization? Or is it better to stop it for a while until the update completed? Thanks in advance.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('18801','paijem'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('18801','paijem','Hi all, I am also facing such problem. I don\'t know who to get over it. My question is, should we keep optimize our site by doing offpage optimization? Or is it better to stop it for a while until the update completed?\r\n\r\nThanks in advance.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Hi all, I am also facing such problem. I don’t know who to get over it. My question is, should we keep optimize our site by doing offpage optimization? Or is it better to stop it for a while until the update completed?

Thanks in advance.

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]]> By: Anand Srinivasan http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/google-mayday-update-and-serp-changes.htm#comment-18725 Anand Srinivasan Sat, 08 May 2010 17:24:12 +0000 http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/?p=2172#comment-18725 Thank you Mark. I read through the entire thread and this is what I could conclude : Massive sites with thousands of pages, years of authority and thousands of IBLs have lost out which is ideally not a good thing. Because they have lost out, sites which are still building their authority (but are nevertheless well optimized) have taken the place. As one forum member put it, this is probably a transition period where the new updates are being implemented which means the "trust factor" for authority sites have been temporarily turned off and naturally the long tail pages lose their place to smaller micro-niche websites during this period since the latter is well optimized. So once the update is complete and trust factor is turned back on, these sites will get back to their original position. Now with a little over 1000 pages, I cannot say my website is on the same league as those web empires with several hundred thousand pages. However my website used to display Sitelinks on Google which is normally displayed against websites which are bonafide in the eyes of Google. So, I just hope it all becomes fine soon.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('18725','Anand Srinivasan'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('18725','Anand Srinivasan','Thank you Mark. I read through the entire thread and this is what I could conclude : Massive sites with thousands of pages, years of authority and thousands of IBLs have lost out which is ideally not a good thing. Because they have lost out, sites which are still building their authority (but are nevertheless well optimized) have taken the place. \r\n\r\nAs one forum member put it, this is probably a transition period where the new updates are being implemented which means the \"trust factor\" for authority sites have been temporarily turned off and naturally the long tail pages lose their place to smaller micro-niche websites during this period since the latter is well optimized. So once the update is complete and trust factor is turned back on, these sites will get back to their original position. \r\n\r\nNow with a little over 1000 pages, I cannot say my website is on the same league as those web empires with several hundred thousand pages. However my website used to display Sitelinks on Google which is normally displayed against websites which are bonafide in the eyes of Google. So, I just hope it all becomes fine soon.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Thank you Mark. I read through the entire thread and this is what I could conclude : Massive sites with thousands of pages, years of authority and thousands of IBLs have lost out which is ideally not a good thing. Because they have lost out, sites which are still building their authority (but are nevertheless well optimized) have taken the place.

As one forum member put it, this is probably a transition period where the new updates are being implemented which means the “trust factor” for authority sites have been temporarily turned off and naturally the long tail pages lose their place to smaller micro-niche websites during this period since the latter is well optimized. So once the update is complete and trust factor is turned back on, these sites will get back to their original position.

Now with a little over 1000 pages, I cannot say my website is on the same league as those web empires with several hundred thousand pages. However my website used to display Sitelinks on Google which is normally displayed against websites which are bonafide in the eyes of Google. So, I just hope it all becomes fine soon.

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]]> By: Mark http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/google-mayday-update-and-serp-changes.htm#comment-18722 Mark Sat, 08 May 2010 11:25:16 +0000 http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/?p=2172#comment-18722 <a href='#comment-18717' rel="nofollow">@Bill G</a> - Those are the same type of things I see mostly Bill... Up and down, up and down. HUGE fluctuations in traffic on different days. <a href='#comment-18718' rel="nofollow">@Anand Srinivasan</a> - I REALLY don't know what may help or not right now Anand. Deep linking from new and older posts, to older posts is just something to try. The ONLY real conclusions I have come to so far... -- The site losing the most traffic, seems to be long tail driven (not seeing the thousands of "longtail" phrases in keyword stats from the same month over month info) -- The sites with the biggest INCREASES are much thinner sites, that were marketed heavily with articles, blog comments, etc. Almost like they are algorithmically penalized for crappy links already, and the new changes take some of the weight OUT of the picture. M<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('18722','Mark'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('18722','Mark','<a href=\'#comment-18717\' rel=\"nofollow\">@Bill G<\/a> - Those are the same type of things I see mostly Bill... Up and down, up and down. HUGE fluctuations in traffic on different days.\r\n\r\n\r\n<a href=\'#comment-18718\' rel=\"nofollow\">@Anand Srinivasan<\/a> - I REALLY don\'t know what may help or not right now Anand. Deep linking from new and older posts, to older posts is just something to try.\r\n\r\nThe ONLY real conclusions I have come to so far...\r\n\r\n-- The site losing the most traffic, seems to be long tail driven (not seeing the thousands of \"longtail\" phrases in keyword stats from the same month over month info)\r\n\r\n-- The sites with the biggest INCREASES are much thinner sites, that were marketed heavily with articles, blog comments, etc. Almost like they are algorithmically penalized for crappy links already, and the new changes take some of the weight OUT of the picture.\r\n\r\nM'); return false;">Quote</a></div> @Bill G – Those are the same type of things I see mostly Bill… Up and down, up and down. HUGE fluctuations in traffic on different days.

@Anand Srinivasan – I REALLY don’t know what may help or not right now Anand. Deep linking from new and older posts, to older posts is just something to try.

The ONLY real conclusions I have come to so far…

– The site losing the most traffic, seems to be long tail driven (not seeing the thousands of “longtail” phrases in keyword stats from the same month over month info)

– The sites with the biggest INCREASES are much thinner sites, that were marketed heavily with articles, blog comments, etc. Almost like they are algorithmically penalized for crappy links already, and the new changes take some of the weight OUT of the picture.

M

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]]> By: Anand Srinivasan http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/google-mayday-update-and-serp-changes.htm#comment-18718 Anand Srinivasan Sat, 08 May 2010 04:57:14 +0000 http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/?p=2172#comment-18718 I'm one of those affected..One of my promising websites had been growing 30% month-on-month and was getting about 6000 pageviews a day in March..The fall happened in an instant around March 17th..Since then, I have been getting just around 1200 pageviews..It's pretty sad.. Mark, I do not get the suggestion you offered. What 'links' are missing on these pages? and what do you suggest we do to probably get back to ranking big?<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('18718','Anand Srinivasan'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('18718','Anand Srinivasan','I\'m one of those affected..One of my promising websites had been growing 30% month-on-month and was getting about 6000 pageviews a day in March..The fall happened in an instant around March 17th..Since then, I have been getting just around 1200 pageviews..It\'s pretty sad..\r\n\r\nMark, I do not get the suggestion you offered. What \'links\' are missing on these pages? and what do you suggest we do to probably get back to ranking big?'); return false;">Quote</a></div> I’m one of those affected..One of my promising websites had been growing 30% month-on-month and was getting about 6000 pageviews a day in March..The fall happened in an instant around March 17th..Since then, I have been getting just around 1200 pageviews..It’s pretty sad..

Mark, I do not get the suggestion you offered. What ‘links’ are missing on these pages? and what do you suggest we do to probably get back to ranking big?

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]]> By: Bill G http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/google-mayday-update-and-serp-changes.htm#comment-18717 Bill G Sat, 08 May 2010 02:29:05 +0000 http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/?p=2172#comment-18717 My traffic has been all over the last 3 weeks. One site is getting 100 to 5k a day. Didnt think caffine would change things so much. Guess I was wrong again. Hope this all shakes out soon.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('18717','Bill G'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('18717','Bill G','My traffic has been all over the last 3 weeks. One site is getting 100 to 5k a day. Didnt think caffine would change things so much. Guess I was wrong again.\r\nHope this all shakes out soon.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> My traffic has been all over the last 3 weeks. One site is getting 100 to 5k a day. Didnt think caffine would change things so much. Guess I was wrong again.
Hope this all shakes out soon.
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]]> By: Mark Hansen http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/google-mayday-update-and-serp-changes.htm#comment-18713 Mark Hansen Fri, 07 May 2010 19:40:29 +0000 http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/?p=2172#comment-18713 <a href='#comment-18711' rel="nofollow">@Rochelle</a> - I have some heavy changes on some sites Rochelle. (Like going from 250 daily pageviews to 2500 daily pageviews, ALL longtail & google driven!) <a href='#comment-18712' rel="nofollow">@Gary</a> - Interesting, but generally the same trend many at WebmasterWorld are seeing also. You know, you can target those adsense ads to specific topics! There is a VERY good read at: https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=23168 I have used this on several sites when I see irrelevant ads... Write a nice section of content to trigger the targeted ads, wrap it with the tags and wait. In a few weeks, you will start seeing the epc rise! :-) Mark<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('18713','Mark Hansen'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('18713','Mark Hansen','<a href=\'#comment-18711\' rel=\"nofollow\">@Rochelle<\/a> - I have some heavy changes on some sites Rochelle. (Like going from 250 daily pageviews to 2500 daily pageviews, ALL longtail & google driven!)\r\n\r\n<a href=\'#comment-18712\' rel=\"nofollow\">@Gary<\/a> - Interesting, but generally the same trend many at WebmasterWorld are seeing also.\r\n\r\nYou know, you can target those adsense ads to specific topics! There is a VERY good read at: https:\/\/www.google.com\/adsense\/support\/bin\/answer.py?hl=en&answer=23168\r\n\r\nI have used this on several sites when I see irrelevant ads... Write a nice section of content to trigger the targeted ads, wrap it with the tags and wait. \r\n\r\nIn a few weeks, you will start seeing the epc rise! :-)\r\n\r\nMark'); return false;">Quote</a></div> @Rochelle – I have some heavy changes on some sites Rochelle. (Like going from 250 daily pageviews to 2500 daily pageviews, ALL longtail & google driven!)

@Gary – Interesting, but generally the same trend many at WebmasterWorld are seeing also.

You know, you can target those adsense ads to specific topics! There is a VERY good read at: https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=23168

I have used this on several sites when I see irrelevant ads… Write a nice section of content to trigger the targeted ads, wrap it with the tags and wait.

In a few weeks, you will start seeing the epc rise! :-)

Mark

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