Webmasters Report November 2007 Google SERP Changes

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November 2, 2007

Webmasters Report November 2007 Google SERP Changes

As promised last month, we're going to report monthly on Google SERP changes. This month, the following observations on WebmasterWorld have been made:

Some optimized sites that are being changed for better relevance are just not performing as well. Their rankings seem to be doing worse.
"Boring websites" with no linkbait are vulnerable to ranking shifts.
Bigger sites do better. ("Size does matter.")
Some datacenters have shown changes, but they reverted to their original rankings. Forum members suspect it's part of a new data push (or experimentation, at least).

Forum discussion continues at WebmasterWorld.

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posted Tamar Weinberg in Google PageRank/SERP Updates at November 2, 2007 10:22 AM Comments (4)

Comments

Thanks for the monthly Webmaster Monthly Google SERP Change Reports. It's nice to have a resource like this to turn to when your too busy with client SEO.

Posted by Jeff Hinds at November 2, 2007 14:07

How is bigger better or where is the evidence of this?

Posted by Jaan Kanellis at November 2, 2007 16:37

Good question Jaan. Those should be addressed in the forum. All we did with this post was summarize what people are saying.

Posted by Barry Schwartz at November 2, 2007 16:56

Hate to add a "me too", but as Jeff said, it is very refreshing to see a summary like this. Thanks Barry; well appreciated.

Dan

Posted by Dan Perry at November 5, 2007 14:29