Jagger 2 Google Update Underway
October 26th, 2005 by Holden LongfellowMatt Cuts is reporting that the Jagger 2 google update is underway.
Read more about the update on the Webmaster World forums here.
Update(s):
Here are some reactions to this latest Jagger 2 update from the Webmaster World Forums (reg. req’d):
Pico_Train sez:
This update is stinking so far. 50% traffic gone.
This happened back in May. Completely kicked out from fantastic search positions. Clean, clean, clean.
Wrote to Google. First response, I said that wasn’t good enough and asked to take a look, 2nd response was a bit more interesting.
Ouch.
Jaffstar sez:
I monitor various sectors, and have completed extensive analysis on the following:
I am noticing that sites with a high percentages anchor text “keyword” in their back links, above a certain % are getting excluded in this update. Old sites that ranked well in the past are also gone. You will notice that these sites normally have natural one way links, and their keyword/domain was used in the text/anchor link, which caused the majority of their anchor text (keyword) to be similar.
On the other hand, sites that go on a wild hunt and get 1000’s of backlinks have a similar pattern with their backlinks. Yes, the majority of the anchor text is above a certain %.
All sites that are in the top 10 that I analyzed, are below a certain %.
So what you are seeing now is old authority sites moving down the serps and sites trying to manipulate their ranking also getting hit because they were above a certain % for their keywords. Sites (good or bad) are thrown into the evil pit.
This has been the pattern of Google SERP (search engine result pages) following updates for some time now. For example, Aaron Wall of SEO Book has been hit by this before for times like *surprise* “seo book.”
Yes, in his case, he absolutely deserves to rank in the top 10 for that term. But the updated Google algorithms can knock “over-optimized” or simply unlucky authoritative sites out of the rankings.
Holden Longfellow wrote this on October 26th, 2005 and filed it under Google News, SEO Tips, SEO Updates |
