Thread: Recent Google updates

I seemed to have lost quite a lot of ground for one of my keyphrases after the recent changes Has anyone else been impacted.

was there just a recent update? I thought the last was back in Feb. Im trying to get ready for the next one on my site virtualrealestatemall.com
Its nice to have a PR. lol. Some people say its a bunch of garbage but people love to see that little green bar.
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i would also be interested in knowing if there has been an update. as for my site it is about the same. still not great.

543ListGuy - one of the reasons is that you have no Google In Bound Links, in fact you have no where near enough links period. But, help is at hand - www.pheedster.com/directories.php and start manual submissions. Join more forums and get posting. Use the same user name etc

Thank you! Thats why i am here...to learn

Cool, here's a tool that I use everyday on site questions, run yours by it www.sitereportcard.com it is what pro's use.

There was a pretty nasty update on June 27. There is over 5 pages of complaints about the June 27 update. The update ruined the ranking on a lot of sites, and none of the people at Webmasterworld.com have figured out a fix for it yet.

Here is the post that they are theorizing reasons for the rank loss:

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum30/35125.htm

I will make sure to update if they figure it out.

Although I continue to get good search results for certain of my key words, such as "Palos Verdes Estates homes for sale" and "Palos Verdes real estate", I used to rank #1 on the first page of results for "Palos Verdes condos", but now I don't even show up on the results. I just don't understand what is going on with Google. I continue to add a tremendous amount of content to my site, and then things like this happen. I have by far more original content on my site than any of my competitors, but Google doesn't seem to recognize this. SEO experts all say that the key is to build good content, but something else is going on when some sites that hardly have any original content rank above me.

I hate Google!!!!!!!!

bmegowan -- Google has been updating and changing their Datacenters all over the world, so just be patient.

When I looked at your source code, I was dismayed to see that you have a "script" running in the background which is quite annoying -- I would certainly remove that, and you might wish to correct the following 697 code warnings too ... (this is a "partial list" due to the 10,000 character limit in a post):

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hello all,

I'm new in the SEO business and I would appreciate if you could send me some tips about making an good and efficient link exchange campaign.

Thanks!!