This is really true about google, and we should watch it closely.

I saw this happening last week, long standing web sites came back from the dead. I even have a picture of the changes on my blog. We went from appearing in 720 searches per day to 1300 per day!

But back in May they dropped Google image results from over 1000 per month to 17, are they going to fix that too?

Might be off subject here and could easily have been addressed in another article here, but what’s with sites that have restaurant reviews ranking higher than the restaurant’s website in Google??? Granted the website is a new domain from the previous site, but it’s been optimized and indexed by all the spiders. As of today, a search for the name of the restaurant in Google returned the site as #10, while all the sites that offer reviews and aggregate listings/directories of restaurants are ranked above the actual restaurant’s site. In Yahoo search today, the restaurant was #1 for the same search (name of the restaurant) ….. no mystery why Google is losing market share…..

Hello all

one of the most messed up rearrangements I have seen Google do in a while
forcing me to add some more pay per click ads just to keep on top while it happens.
So yes Google makes out with more change in their pockets as always.

It has been going on for around 3 or 4 weeks.

I promote a bead show in the South East United States and I have been at it long enough that I have always had first page results on Google for the basic searches bead show and bead shows

Now all my listings are gone and pages down in a Google search
I am even in off first page for home state search of
Florida Bead Shows where we promote 15 shows a year
then there is the search of

Atlanta Bead Shows where we promote 4 shows a year

I have seen this happen before with this site and others I own. But this change seems to be a big mess at this time as they tweek it in. I can’t tell if it is good, bad, or even better.

I have even had my bead store http://www.flamingobeads.com show up on top for the
search

florida bead shows

I guess we will have to wait as the all to important Google messes around again. At this point most of the results I am seeing are not very relevant and they seem to chage by the hour

Rick

Google is destroying itself. When the search engine regulation by the government comes down on them, they have nobody but themselves to blame. They are not only playing with the mean dog, they are trying to beat the crap out of it and that’s not good. I’d say the government needs to be on Google like dried gum on a park bench. The abuse has to stop. Thousands of business are suffering due to their monopolistic and abusive behavior. Support http://www.insidegoogle.com Leave your complaints there.

I’ve had a couple of strange results with my site from Google recently
(1) For about a week in Google Places my business appears / disappears intermittently and shows different content / different rankings across google platforms (eg .com, .co.uk, etc) which has never happened before
(2) For less competetive keywords my site dropped four or five pages yet held it’s position for more competitive keywords.

Unfortunately the only guarantee with Google is there are no guarantees. They (rightly) serve their interest and not webmaster’s interests. Undoubtedly Google has become so powerful, probably too powerful, that when it sneezes a lot of us catch a cold.

At times like these I think “What the f*ck next ?” but until someone puts utopia on line, or at least a product better than Google, the only useful response is to keep working at it !

Yes, I noticed this today on my website, I am so pleased you sent this email to me as it is great news for multiple page websites like myself. This is excellent news. My website has many searches not just one or two keywords so this is essential for aquiring new visitors to the website.

Thank heaven for the recent Google changes. My site was number one in my niche for five years – It is very content-rich, authoritative, useful, lovingly maintained and not heavy on sales. Then about 3 years ago it got overtaken by some dreadful ‘content farms’ and I ended up on page 2 despite huge efforts at link-building. The content farms had one short, fairly uninformative page on my niche topic, written by a hack, yet were in all the top positions. Now thankfully I am number one again since a couple of weeks ago.