Google update just now? 10/4?

[teris3]

yep,Google.gr also affected...one site of mine got heavily hit!
No messages yet on Webmaster Tools

 

[Lalalaenhund]

Quoted from the Google blog above; "The change will go live for all languages at the same time."

 

[TheAdvertisingMan]

Still no changes at google.cz

It will be fun watching how new update will affect my experiment sites ranking with no content.. If they wont disappear to nowhere, this update sucks.

 

[Rua999]

One of my sites down that had some spammy links to it.. my other sites with links from blog networks survived. Hopefully the spanked site will come back soon once the refresh has stopped shufffling..

 

[tronox]

I didn't knew who matt cutts was until now. I sudenly hate him... Don't know why really.

 

[download]

Penguin 2.1 confirmed... http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2012/04/another-step-to-reward-high-quality.html

Not that it matters

 

[igniteimages]

Also got hit.

The thing is the sites sitting on page 1 for search terms are pretty thin and not high quality at all, or EMDs.

 

[Expertpeon]

Do you people only monitor your own sites or something?
1000s of keywords have changed across the board... it's the largest update I've ever seen (even larger than Penguin 1.0).

 

[virtualpurity]

And continuing ....

 

[Russian425]

Way more then 1% affected

 

[Initial Effort]

This is what it looks like: If you built spammy Web 2.0s you got hit, especially if they have spun content. Each site can take a certain amount of spam content, but once it crosses a certain threshold it drops. This score is based on factors both onpage and off like domain authority, bounce rate, # of pages, quality of content.

 

[Expertpeon]

This is what it looks like: If you built spammy Web 2.0s you got hit, especially if they have spun content. Each site can take a certain amount of spam content, but once it crosses a certain threshold it drops. This score is based on factors both onpage and off like domain authority, bounce rate, # of pages, quality of content.

This isn't what it looks like at all.

 

[Russian425]

This is what it looks like: If you built spammy Web 2.0s you got hit, especially if they have spun content. Each site can take a certain amount of spam content, but once it crosses a certain threshold it drops. This score is based on factors both onpage and off like domain authority, bounce rate, # of pages, quality of content.

BS!!! My spammed web 2.0 property ranking on the 1st page.
Sites with no links that were ranking now no-where to be found.

 

[teris3]

This is what it looks like: If you built spammy Web 2.0s you got hit, especially if they have spun content. Each site can take a certain amount of spam content, but once it crosses a certain threshold it drops. This score is based on factors both onpage and off like domain authority, bounce rate, # of pages, quality of content.

I wish it was that simple!

 

[Initial Effort]

**To clarify - The money site is a regular page, not a web 2.0 property. I'm suggesting that if your money site used lots of Web 2.0 properties with spun content the money site has dropped.

Please agree or disagree with this statement, it will be helpful so we can work out the changes.

 

[R0meo]

still holding ground, yet sleepless night ahead. hate this shit

 

[Expertpeon]

**To clarify - The money site is a regular page, not a web 2.0 property. I'm suggesting that if your money site used lots of Web 2.0 properties with spun content the money site has dropped.

Please agree or disagree with this statement, it will be helpful so we can work out the changes.

I have a lot of sites with spun web 2.0 backlinks (of course, highly readable 1-2 million word spun master articles) still ranking just fine... others using blog networks and such dropped to oblivion. But then again, in the niches I'm in there's like 1 surviving non-conglomerate (walmart/amazon, etc) style site left... and they typically have a handful of links (<200) for terms people would kill their mother to rank for.

 

[gsy159]

**To clarify - The money site is a regular page, not a web 2.0 property. I'm suggesting that if your money site used lots of Web 2.0 properties with spun content the money site has dropped.

Please agree or disagree with this statement, it will be helpful so we can work out the changes.

I disagree, I have a site 2 years old only white hat it lost all of its ranking. The big companys win again

 

[Initial Effort]

I'm asking about the content linking to the site. Not what is currently onpage.

 

[Initial Effort]

I have a lot of sites with spun web 2.0 backlinks (of course, highly readable 1-2 million word spun master articles) still ranking just fine... others using blog networks and such dropped to oblivion. But then again, in the niches I'm in there's like 1 surviving non-conglomerate (walmart/amazon, etc) style site left... and they typically have a handful of links (<200) for terms people would kill their mother to rank for.

Thanks for sharing.