Webmasters Report January 2008 Google SERP Changes

Jan 7, 2008 - 10:19 am 1 by
Filed Under Google Updates

In continuing with our theme for Google SERP updates, we now have January's report.

Numerous webmasters are seeing a huge increase in their traffic: double the visits. Naturally, everyone affected is quite thrilled. One webmaster reports with confidence that this is due to long tail searches.

Unfortunately, others lost more than half of their traffic. It seems that this occurred around December 21st or 22nd.

Webmasters report that using the site: operator gives an exact count.

Forum discussion continues at WebmasterWorld.

 

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