A new google update today targetting money keywords

The big news here is that they are starting to dismantle tiers and devalue links from these tiers.

Gonna be a lot of crying on this forum soon.

weBay said:
The question is, will the same tactics work to get ranked again?
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I think the power of backlinking is on he wane, the "SEO is backlinks" crowd is going to be lost.
 
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I have one keyword "xxxxxx reviews" from 3 different sites (same niche) have an identical dropped of 300+ position. Will wait and see how other keywords are perform.
 
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We've seen 4 of our sites getting hit hard, we also used SAPE on them but the rest of the network is VERY strong so deffo wasnt targeting SAPE.

Looks like its what the OP said, its the keyword that got hit, also 2 of my competitors got wiped out too.

Good thing is is some inner pages of our network took their place so however they settle down we still win :)
 
Techxan said:
The big news here is that they are starting to dismantle tiers and devalue links from these tiers.

Gonna be a lot of crying on this forum soon.



I think the power of backlinking is on he wane, the "SEO is backlinks" crowd is going to be lost.
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How the hell in th the world did you know that they detecting tiers and devaluing their rankings? "SEO backlinks crowd is going to lost".. Then how all the current ranking websites are ranking? By lottery?

Stop speaking crap and wait until the SERPs settle down to jump to conclusions. I've many sites only using tier backlinking and all I can see since the update started rolling are positive results.

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Been hit a week ago for one of my websites. First 100+ visitors a day from Google organic, now only 3 visitors. Post unique content ever day, no blackhat techniques... Google is just weird.
 
Sape is still doing fine, some of my sites which were not having a single sape link also got hit, i checked google ranking and i still see sites ranking with sape. This update is something else, will find out in few days.
 
mdmostfa said:
How the hell in th the world did you know that they detecting tiers and devaluing their rankings? "SEO backlinks crowd is going to lost".. Then how all the current ranking websites are ranking? By lottery?

Stop speaking crap and wait until the SERPs settle down to jump to conclusions. I've many sites only using tier backlinking and all I can see since the update started rolling are positive results.

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You should watch Matt Cutts and John Meuller's videos for this stuff.
 
just lost 2K domains in WMT! impressions down, traffic up!? WTF!?
 
I am tracking 200+ keywords in "money making" keywords. Yesterday I had 157 keywords ranked in the top 100 and today I have 111. However I will say, none of my most profitable rankings dropped. I noticed that the sites that last rankings were all from recent projects.
 
Searchengineland has wrote a post about this update, they've called it the payday loan update, even thought it targets much more than this query.
It seems like this update hit TURKEY much more than any other country.
here you go for the link. http://searchengineland.com/google-pay-day-loan-algorithm-google-search-algorithm-update-to-target-spammy-queries-162941
gorang said:
You should watch Matt Cutts and John Meuller's videos for this stuff.
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Could you share any link to start digging please ?
 
Newbie Alert: I'm not sure what Money Making keywords are...are these "make money with + whatever method", does it include "Product Name + Review" type of keywords?

I don't think I get it, Google is penalizing websites that are targeting these terms? What do they want to show up on SERPS when people search for such terms...websites that just mention the phrase in passing???

I may have missed something, and if someone could enlighten me, I would appreciate it.
 
thewanderingpen said:
Newbie Alert: I'm not sure what Money Making keywords are...are these "make money with + whatever method", does it include "Product Name + Review" type of keywords?

I don't think I get it, Google is penalizing websites that are targeting these terms? What do they want to show up on SERPS when people search for such terms...websites that just mention the phrase in passing???

I may have missed something, and if someone could enlighten me, I would appreciate it.
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Money making keywords are search terms that convert to money with the right monetization on the site.

"What Google wants?" - well, they don't want to look bad and they want to sustain their dominance in the market share and also to increase it. They do what they need to do and we need to do what benefits us. Everybody has its role in this world ;-)
 
Based on your definition of Money Making Keywords, almost every type of keyword is a money making keyword. With the right site layout, content, etc., even info-keywords can be monetized.

Onto the second point, Google doesn't want to look bad so they punish sites that deliberately target money-keywords regardless if it provides quality content or not? If anything, that's going to make their SERPs for the money-making terms look terrible. It would only leave sites that mention the phrase in question in passing, and not really go to great depths to provide info regarding it.

blacat said:
Money making keywords are search terms that convert to money with the right monetization on the site.

"What Google wants?" - well, they don't want to look bad and they want to sustain their dominance in the market share and also to increase it. They do what they need to do and we need to do what benefits us. Everybody has its role in this world ;-)
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thewanderingpen said:
Based on your definition of Money Making Keywords, almost every type of keyword is a money making keyword. With the right site layout, content, etc., even info-keywords can be monetized.

Onto the second point, Google doesn't want to look bad so they punish sites that deliberately target money-keywords regardless if it provides quality content or not? If anything, that's going to make their SERPs for the money-making terms look terrible. It would only leave sites that mention the phrase in question in passing, and not really go to great depths to provide info regarding it.
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Regarding money keywords... Not every or almost every keyword is a money keyword. I'm not going to get into a debate here about it... it is just actual knowledge from my years in the business having different types of traffic to my sites.

If you remember the case when the NYtimes outed JCPenny's SEO practices then you would know that Google doesn't want to look bad. Soon after that we received an aggressive Panda. I'm not saying that Panda came just because of that specific case, just saying these cases contributed to the aggressiveness of the updates.
 
I think I've been asking the wrong question. Yeah, let's not get into a debate. For this update, what sort of adjustments would keep us afloat?
 
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