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HomeChoice.com · 12-20-2007, 07:07 AM

Anyone here of any change to Google just dropped in one of my keywords by 15 spots overnight?

NealRM · 12-20-2007, 10:29 AM

I've seen several sites drop over the last few weeks. In a weeks or so they are back in thier old position.

Tony Sena · 12-20-2007, 02:25 PM

I noticed changes too! I went from #5 to #8 and the sites that jumped me were Yahoo, Realtor.com and another non real estate site that has a page that talks about las vegas real estate. Looks like Google is starting to place more value on these larger sites?

Mert · 12-20-2007, 03:46 PM

mslasvegas went down from #2 to #6 and another friend of mine (lipplyreal) went down in tampa real estate from #2 to #6 scary.

djl · 12-22-2007, 07:16 AM

I dropped. Anyone out there that wants to help me ascertain what might have gone wrong, please PM me. I have a few ideas and talking with others, always helps to uncover other issues.

djl · 12-22-2007, 07:18 AM

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Originally Posted by NealRM

I've seen several sites drop over the last few weeks. In a weeks or so they are back in thier old position.

what experience, knowledge, etc. would make you say this?

HomeChoice.com · 12-22-2007, 08:58 AM

Take a look at the Google Webmaster tools - Dashboard. For some reason my sitemap.xml was flagged as an error. I used a third party site to create.

djl · 12-22-2007, 09:35 AM

I did check mine, it is fine.

BossWebmaster · 12-26-2007, 11:08 AM

If you guys haven't heard, Google has completely devalued paid links to your site, now only natural are worth anything. I relied heavily on natural links for my search ranking, and after this update my web site went up as far as 12 slots for some keywords!

Check out my blog on what a natural link is.

HomeChoice.com · 12-26-2007, 02:28 PM

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Originally Posted by BossWebmaster

If you guys haven't heard, Google has completely devalued paid links to your site, now only natural are worth anything. I relied heavily on natural links for my search ranking, and after this update my web site went up as far as 12 slots for some keywords!

Check out my blog on what a natural link is.

OK, I know I have asked the question before but need to update the process... How does Google know the difference between paid links (general) and paid marketing on the local new paper website? Does anyone know if they have a list of sites they considered paid links? Do they now like reciprocal links (since no monetary action took place)?