Thoughts On July 2008 Ranking Changes On Google.co.uk

After the abrupt changes in June on Google.co.uk and other sites it looks like Google giving a lot more weight to sites with a LOT of backlinks. In some of the more spammy niches we see sites that were gone three months ag are back and stronger than ever due to their huge number of backlinks from footer spam or similar tactics.I would look for an update to fix this mistake in the next 30 to 60 days as I think the quality on this update was not the best and they will tweak this problem out relatively soon. ... Click Here To Read Full Post

June 2008 Rankings Shuffle On Google.co.uk

The last few days have been very interesting on the Google.co.uk search results as a lot of rankings seems to be moving around depending on which Google server is queried. There is an interesting discussion over at WebMasterWorld on the causes of this June 08 shakeup which seems to be affecting the UK index only. Just give it a few days to settle down and see how things land.... Click Here To Read Full Post