google update

[daniel]

did anyone else notice a google update on the weekend,
Some of my sites did fairly well

Daniel

[Paz]

Yup, I've seen it too and it's a strange update.

I have a few financial sites from the UK I'm watching in google.com and google.co.uk.

The sites have improved a lot in google.co.uk but have nose-dived in google.com sugesting strong localisation in this update. (It's also possible that the update hasn't fully propagated though).

Also, if I do a "UK only" search in .co.uk I hardly see any improvement, suggesting to me that the "world searches" are already strongly filtered for UK sites in google.co.uk.

There is a slight issue though. If I rank highly for some keyword, when I do a search phrase for "keyword UK" I'm nowhere. It's as though there's an over-optimisation filter for or something.

I'd be interested to see if anyone's done a check in google.co.za on any of their South African sites to see if they are seeing the same thing.

Cheers,
Paz.

[Koz]

From I've seen for my sites, rankings improved in Google.co.za (SA searches) but went down a bit in Google.co.za (worldwide search). But this difference in rankings do not apply to all the targeted keywords.

Did anyone notice an update mess up in Goolge last week? I saw sites targeting UK and hosted in the UK doing better in Google.co.uk (worldwide) than in UK searches only. But its gone back to normal now. I think this goes to show that localisation is definately a big part of this update.

Cheers, Koz

[daniel]

hey Koz

I also saw that, i think they might hgave roll backed the update to a previous version due to some problems with the update or algo


Daniel