Thursday, September 20, 2007

Google Single Keyword Update

There is no question that there is a huge update going on at Google right now. Both SEOBook and Search Engine Land did to posts on the subject in the last 2 days. Matt Cutts sums it up with this comment on the Search Engine Land post:

"Hey Barry, these are two unrelated things, but the right teams are aware of both of them and have changes pending. The change for one-word queries is already live at some places and should be live at 100% of the datacenters in the next 2-3 days, for example."

The other item he is refering to is some heavy Chinese spam on Google.

RankPulse
shows the activity clearly, massive movement mainly on single word queries. I'm trying to dig in a bit deeper, but that will take some time. One thing I did notice is that virtually all of the sites that got hit with a drop in the last couple of days are suffering from big canonical issues.


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