Friday, August 27, 2004
Recently a lot of webmasters in WMW forums reported a significant loss of trafffic from google, Also they faced major drop in keyword rankings, Here is a brief post by a guy who started that thread,
Possible reasons speculated by the poster:
1. Are they affiliate sites with many links to the affilate host.
2. Do they have satelite domains which they cross link/one way link with sites particularly on the same ip c-block.
3. Are the drop in serps keyword specific or site wide.
4. Are some inbound links on mass from single domains. For example, a great number links from a footer link on a major site.
5. Have changes been made to keyword density recently.
6. Is there a distinction in ranking between major and minor terms.
7. Has there been any PR changes or backward link changes.
Read a long 5 page thread here (webmasterworld.com/forum3/25465.htm ) if you are interested,
Possible reasons speculated by the poster:
1. Are they affiliate sites with many links to the affilate host.
2. Do they have satelite domains which they cross link/one way link with sites particularly on the same ip c-block.
3. Are the drop in serps keyword specific or site wide.
4. Are some inbound links on mass from single domains. For example, a great number links from a footer link on a major site.
5. Have changes been made to keyword density recently.
6. Is there a distinction in ranking between major and minor terms.
7. Has there been any PR changes or backward link changes.
Read a long 5 page thread here (webmasterworld.com/forum3/25465.htm ) if you are interested,
Ask Jeeves has launched a beta version of a new Japanese-language search engine. Based on the Emeryville-Calif. search vendor's Ask.com search portal, Ask.jp was developed by Ask Jeeves Japan Co. Ltd, a joint venture of Ask Jeeves and Japan-based transcosmos.
With the launch, Ask Jeeves joins Google and Yahoo as one of only three search portals in Japan that provide their own search technology.
Source: Yahoo News
