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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.
Comments:
Jeff Hinds
11/02/2007 06:07 pm
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.
Jaan Kanellis
11/02/2007 08:37 pm
How is bigger better or where is the evidence of this?
Barry Schwartz
11/02/2007 08:56 pm
Good question Jaan. Those should be addressed in the forum. All we did with this post was summarize what people are saying.
Dan Perry
11/05/2007 07:29 pm
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