June Ranking drop reported for lot of sites

Webmaster world members report ranking loss for lot of sites in first week of June. We had some of our client sites shaken but not to the extent discussed in that thread here



A member posted the following message which will give a little insight on what is being discussed

"Initially, I thought there were some problems with the geo filtering being screwed up with regards to the UK, but I'm not sure about this statement in isolation. Maybe it's a bug and maybe it's not.
Since it's hard to pinpoint we really need a lot of information to decipher the problem or adjustment that G has put in place . If it is only UK related sites, then my hunch is that this could be rolled out in other regions with more aggressive filtering.
Some things I'd like to know or qualify , especially from the long established members here or folks with long established sites, are things like this :
- is this purely selective - is it only high PR sites and if so what level of PR - is it only UK related sites and does that mean the TLD and/or hosting [ chief suspect is geo filtering issues ] - do these sites have an inbalance of linking techniques e.g. lot's of navigation IBL's , footer IBL's , - do these sites publish frequent content
My observation so far is that it has been
- highly selective in a competitve niche to a minority of sites [ total stability around the site i watch ]
- effected by a combination of factor [ not sure what right now ie one factor in isolation isn't enough to send a site down, more one event combined with another is.



This is because I'm observing others using the same techniques which are unaffected ]
-effected by introduction of high PR link/s , leading to - recent upward PR increases [ not visible on toolbar ]which have caused a re assessment of the site's "trust" rank. - it only effects UK TLD's [ need more info on this ] - a further discounting of low value pages bringing the overall PR down - thin affiliate sites or sites with aggregated content been only effected [ not 100% on this - just some sites I'm watching ] - linking stagnation or momentum altered - lack of fresh , original content
Actually, my feeling is that it's nothing new , it's just more aggressive in it's selection of sites
In the case of one site I'm observing, for any phrase or content [ exact match and broad match ] the whole site has been tanked to between -40 to -60 on phrases that should rank. Not one single exception. When it initially disappeared from Google it was completely off the index for 3 days.
This might correspond to recent discussion by Googler John Mu about the - 60 penalty which appears to have been acknowledged , which would seem to be based on a recent change at G. Some folks have reported improvements coming back quickly with a site clean up.
But there's not enough reports to be sure.
My concern is that the recovery could be indefinite and have effected the trust rank of effected sites - and of course communicating with G through WMT leaves webmasters are exposed to hand checks which could expose other inadvertent nasties and one way communication. "

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