Google SERP Update

There was a big tweak on Tuesday which knocked one of my keywords from 10th onto page 2 at 12th.. plus knocked one of my other keywords from 11th down to 15th.... Mozcast and Rankranger are both reporting big shifts around that time
I had just put my last paid allowance into a mixture of Sape links and some high PR blog posts, all with high trust flow reported on MajesticSEO. I bought my Sape links from lesser known providers as well. I diversified anchor text on most of them but I think I need to add more brand ones because commercial keyword ratio is a bit too high, thats probably where my problem is. I'm hoping its just a dance after I added quite few, up until then I had not used Sape links... I was at 3rd just before Penguin 2.0 for one financial keyword and very slowly dropped down to 14th on page 2
Anyone have experience with Sape, another keyword moved up from page 4 to bottom of page 2 last 2 weeks and has now dropped down to page 4 since yesterday, maybe link building velocity is high and its dancing, maybe a filter Google has when large numbers of links come in... it needs more brand links for this page...but its going to have to wait because I have a girl and room to pay for. :05:
 
Yes I saw a change in ahrefs, it was showing my brand links on top before, now my keyword one is slightly over
 
Read the article b1step-ahead linked to there was definitely something around the 20-21st.... I wondered if it was a Pagerank update or just the evil Penguin snooping around, probably the latter because Matthew Cutts said there would be tweaks all summer. Probably picked out some small problems with my links, luckily haven't dropped into oblivion yet, hoping I can turn it around and get back on page 1 from page 2
 
Noticed drop to a site of mine , quite a bit .. wonder whats up ?

regards,
ToG
 
big swing in today SERP movement from my site. one kw particular down 200+ and swing back to +181 , now at position 19. previously in position 2 for almost 2 months....
 
Google SERP updates happen constantly, you are referring to Google algorithm updates and that's another thing.
 
Has anyone seen Rankranger for the last few days, it says 'Predator causing panic' for last Tuesday when my site got booted to 12th from 9th and then things have been dodgy ever since last Tuesday as the graph shows.....
I really need to get back on page 1, I don't know what these algorithm tweaks are targeting but I need to know! I'm sure its link velocity or something sly which Google are fooling people with
 
somethings up right now, if you google sony a giant box is surrounding the #1 result same with other brand searches. Saw this early last week for a couple of hours.
 
somethings up right now, if you google sony a giant box is surrounding the #1 result same with other brand searches. Saw this early last week for a couple of hours.

Yeah Google is playing with a lot of Knowledge Graph stuff and branded searches.

Alot of unnatural link warnings sent out today, I think the update is re-targeting sape (from my own research). I have a website that is just SAPE links and it's been given a manual penalty. I think that is what the update was looking at.
 
Really weird things are happening since 15th august.
My 60 sites' traffic dropped -50%. Let's just hope it's a temporary dance...
 
My rankings are still stable. I think the sudden change of many of your sites has to do with SAPE links. Google is sending many manual notices on links spam to sites with sape links and thats probably their next target, just as it was with the other link networks when they got deindexed some time ago.
 
In my network of IMers, people are getting unnatural link messages and most of them have incoming Russian links.
 
after lots of bumbs and rides, my rankings got stable now. well tis still in first page.. just dancing between positions..
 
Well, it's Friday evening, so yes, less people coming....like every weekend


friday and saturday sucks...
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Proof of Google Update on Aug 21/22

 
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anyone had huge bump today?? today it was wild movement!!!
 
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