Hey Guys,
I posted this in another thread and will repost it here rather than type something similar out again, based on our data this isn't targetting sape, as usual over the last 6 months since we made sape so famous - everytime google does anything its sapes fault! Well according to the sheeple on the forums...
The data I'm looking at tells me this targetting something else as sites without sape are performing the same way sites with sape links are! The majority of sites are doing fine and you can clearly see the big $$ kws are still being dominated with sites using sape links, I've been up all night analyzing this stuff trying to find a pattern in the small percentage of sites that were hit and to be honest there is no real pattern here this looks random as hell, I mean we also have clients that did not use these links which are having drops and rises so this leads me to believe the update is targetting something else or some other link type.
A number of clients took dips around 2 weeks ago when some sites in SAPE were deindexed, this is nothing new its been happening since we started using the network and its the reason why we run indexing and PR checks on our lists every 3 to 4 weeks. I have probly the biggest collection of SAPE data on the forum at the minute so I have a pretty big view of whats happening and as I said it looks as if its a normal update as I have clients without sape acting the same way as people with sape and vice versa.
This is going to take a week to settle too, 1 of our biggest SAPE clients was among the small percentage that dropped last night, myself and him were on skype talking pretty concerned as you can imagine, I just woke up to find his rankings are returning to normal! So be aware this shit ain't settled yet.
I'm glad this update has rolled out now, we can analyze the situation and then get back to work! This build up and mayhem over the next few days is mind numbing most of it comes from people with no real data which is the worst part.
My advice to you guys using SAPE on a large scale, start doing regular PR and indexing checks on your lists! We've done this from day 1, sites get deindexed on the network daily and lose PR daily its been this way since we first started using it.