Google Shakup Continues...

[DeMerchant]

Is everyone seeing the massive movement in google that I'm experiencing? This is definitely the longest dance I've been around for... it seems like it will never end... anyone have any comments/insight?

[bgmacaw]

It have been weird. For a few days I had a site that was #1 in on Google.ca while I was on page 3 in the main Google.com. This lasted about 3 days before it dropped back down. I got about 1500 visitors during those days though. The keyword was a certain software product I had a pre-owned domain name for and I was monetized with EPN selling templates and tutorials for it, nothing Canada related.

I've had some other sites jump around too but not as dramatically. I've got a couple of pre-owned farm sites (personal name domains) that are getting non-buying keyword traffic for some reason. I suspect it's due to domain age and me being too SEO oriented in my titles. Recently I've been trying to write suboptimal titles on these blogs.

[Willdini]

My sites are hopping all over the place. Its driving me nuts.

[dreamscaper]

I had a kitchen appliance related blog come out of the sandbox for about aweek and then *poof* back in again.

That's one thing I like about my movie actor related blog on Yahoo: it may take awhile to get indexed worth a damn, but once you do, you seem to stay there or raise in the ranks pretty easily.

[dreamscaper]

Well, Google shook me up today: the kitchen appliance blogger blog i mentioned before (which I have not posted to since mid November, BTW) which is still ijn the sandboxed, was flagged as a spam blog today.

Considering that it has no new content or links worth mentioning added to it recently and is not competing with anybody on the serps to prompt a fake flagging to get rid of me as competition, I am left shaking my head and actually think it is funny. "Our spam detection methods may be a bit fuzzy," says google in the email sent to me and on their review request form - NO KIDDING, LOL!!

they claim it will be reviewed within two business days, we shall see...

[dgodot]

I've recently gotten the same message about two of my blogger blogs that have no outgoing links or monetization. They're a little slim on content, but... within "20 days" we'll see once and for all whether I'm the wicked spammer I tend to think of myself as

[James]

Don't sweat about that. I get that message with almost any new blog I make on blogger. Just get the captcha and send it, you will be ok in few days. I don't think they manually review the site. I tested it with Blog Content Wizard filled posts, and it was all ok. Just like they say, their bot gets cranky sometimes

[Simo]

Isn't that funny! I've got a big bunch of blogger blogs generated automatically and filled with duplicate content and I think more than 80% of them are OK with G.

[dreamscaper]

Here is an update: I was on statcounter about 24 hours after this google business and noticed that my sandboxed blog had received a visitor. It was google. Pretty obvious since acording to statcounter the visitor's host name was google and the ISP name was "google Inc."

The visit lasted all of "0 seconds". This tells me that they have so many sites to verify in a day that it has gotten to the point where if your page looks legit to a human on a cursory glance you are clear.

that is nice to know...

BTW: seems that I have started to get a bit more traffic coming my way again to this site as of today - wonder if I might have cleared the sandbox again now after this silly business?

[Grizzly]

For what it's worth the Google Shuffle appears to be over - at least with the MMO niche.

If interested on my take on what the "Google Shuffle" seems to be about you can read my comment on Courts new blog.

h**p://thekeywordacademy.com/explanation-of-google-sandboxing-and-ranking-drops/