Over the past few days I have noticed some major changes in the rankings of several of my websites. Typically, a google update may move my rankings around slightly however these recent changes were drastic.
One of my sites which has been ranked #5 for it’s best keyword for over 6 months, suddenly dropped to the 10th page. Conversely, one of my sites which didn’t rank in the top 10 pages for it’s best keyword suddenly jumped to the top of the second page.
This is just an example of what some of my sites have done over the past 2 days. Others have remained in their same position but these are mainly sites which are ranked in the top 1-3 positions.
I am hoping this is not in fact the “new” google algorithm in action but just a small hiccup. If it is the algorithm change then my better quality sites are in trouble as the site which was dropped to page 10 is a very informative, well coded, well optimized site with unique content while the one which rose in position is very new and has few quality back links.
Now, if it were only my sites seeing changes then we could just write it off as an error on our part however there are more and more threads appearing at the major webmaster forums including forums.digitalpoint.com and sitepoint.com.
There are a lot of theories floating around as to how the algorithm has changed or if the algorithm has changed. I believe it has but only google knows.
I am trying to compile as much information as possible from those who have been effected either positively or negatively. If you have seen some changes in ranking please comment.
It is very annoying to users with large screen resolutions to have to pretty much “lean over to the left” to read your site all scrunched up on one side of the monitor and have all that real-estate just sitting their blank on the right side of the screen.
