Anyone else noticed this since around the 22nd October ?
Some talk of a possible core algorithm update :
http://searchengineland.com/google-update-their-ranking-algorithms-some-webmasters-believe-so-234185
Cheers,
Gary.
I'm looking at a couple of notable shifts around that time, but first is 18th Oct and second on 28th Oct. The first of these I think might be specific to something we did, but not sure about 28th.
Nothing particular in either traffic from organic or in Search Analytics.
I see a big shift in our most important keyword right at that time (from #13 to #3), but I see a lot of similar shifts at other times. So I think in my case it's just noise in the signal
Thanks for replies.
I'm only seeing it in 3 clients but all similar and significant changes on the same date.
Cheers,
Gary.
Seeing similar but not pinned down to a specific date, haven't looked that closely.
change in rankings, or in traffic?
I was a little preoccupied around that time but nothing pinged onto my radar. Looking back I'm seeing about the pattern of traffic I would normally expect to see on a half term weekend - most sites down a little but traffic patterns the same, a couple up a smidge when they have the kids on holiday style keywords/offerings, again patterns following the normal daily trends.
I'm seeing the same pattern across the sites we SEO and the sites we only run other channels on - so a few different SEO styles in the mix.
That said most of our sites aren't content dependent (as in blog or magazine style content) enough for that to impact overall traffic substantiially, so if its a panda stylee thing I would be less likely to notice than others.