{"id":215,"date":"2006-05-14T07:12:54","date_gmt":"2006-05-14T14:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pdxtc.com\/wpblog\/archives\/215"},"modified":"2014-12-04T13:46:19","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T20:46:19","slug":"rough-week-to-be-a-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxtc.com\/wpblog\/technology-articles\/rough-week-to-be-a-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Rough week to be a website…"},"content":{"rendered":"

For many websites, this past week was a rough one on Google.<\/p>\n

I’ve personally\u00a0seen complete websites disappear and reappear from the results. I’ve\u00a0seen some\u00a0titles and descriptions appear differently in the listings than they are on the page.<\/p>\n

My own site was not unaffected, and took a rankings drop, but now seems to have stabilized back to it’s number one position for “internet consultant”.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Of course I\u00a0expect\u00a0that to\u00a0 bounce around, but that doesn’t mean I’m immune to\u00a0panic any more thne you are.<\/p>\n

My own consultant\u00a0\/guru, Jerry West, of http:\/\/www.webmarketingnow.com<\/a>\u00a0has reported the following strange behavior this past week in his newsletter:<\/p>\n

  • banned sites reappear, disappear, reappear and then disappear again <\/em><\/li>\n
  • page saturation numbers bouncing at a rate that seems hourly <\/em><\/li>\n
  • supplemental results growing, dumping, growing, dumping, etc. <\/em><\/li>\n
  • title tag of home page displaying title from DMOZ, then reverting to title on the page <\/em><\/li>\n
  • results in the SERPs bouncing like a ping pong ball <\/em><\/li>\n
  • deep crawl on May 12th<\/em><\/li>\n

    (Web Marketing Now\u00a0runs over 200 test domains on multiple servers, and is one of my\u00a0 premier sources for both factual and theoretical\u00a0information regarding the search engines)<\/p>\n

    So what is going on? Is it really some new algorithm at Google, or is it just a quirk?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

    I’m sure it’s just a quirk. Google’s not talking, and nobody has even admitted there’s a problem yet.\u00a0 In their never ending battle to clean up the serps of spam websites, this is just another bump in the road.<\/p>\n

    Stick to your game plan, and do NOT make any drastic changes to your site in a panic.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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