Crazy Old Google

[CaptainJSparrow]

Viper, we've had 4 different sites spike way up, once each, since June. Each time it stays up for a few days then goes back to normal. Kinda weird, I'm wondering if it's an algo change why it wouldn't happen to more sites, or even those 4 sites, all at the same time.

Starting this thread, I was wondering if anyone else's sites spiked way up Tuesday and Wednesday this week and then went back to normal. Had it happened to alot of folks at the same time, it would be more indicative of an algo change or filter adjustment.

[LowryBigwood]

Originally Posted by CaptainJSparrow

Viper, we've had 4 different sites spike way up, once each, since June. Each time it stays up for a few days then goes back to normal. Kinda weird, I'm wondering if it's an algo change why it wouldn't happen to more sites, or even those 4 sites, all at the same time.

Starting this thread, I was wondering if anyone else's sites spiked way up Tuesday and Wednesday this week and then went back to normal. Had it happened to alot of folks at the same time, it would be more indicative of an algo change or filter adjustment.

As I stated earlier in this thread I didn't notice anything like this recently. But, In June and July(maybe earlier August too) I did experience these "spikes" which lasted a few days then vanished. My traffic was up about 4 times during the traffic spike what it is right now.

[Pertunda]

captainsparrow,

The exact same thing happened to two of my sites. I had huge spikes in traffic from google on tuesday and wednesday and then the traffic dropped back to normal thursday and friday.

This actually is a normal occurence for the last 2 years for me when google does a big update. for the last two years (about 3 times each year) this happens when google has some big updates to its SERPs.

[xxxjay]

Originally Posted by CaptainJSparrow

Viper, we've had 4 different sites spike way up, once each, since June. Each time it stays up for a few days then goes back to normal. Kinda weird, I'm wondering if it's an algo change why it wouldn't happen to more sites, or even those 4 sites, all at the same time.

Starting this thread, I was wondering if anyone else's sites spiked way up Tuesday and Wednesday this week and then went back to normal. Had it happened to alot of folks at the same time, it would be more indicative of an algo change or filter adjustment.

Hopefully, what we are seeing is Google re-shuffling the deck. I remember before they changed indexes the last time I would see my pages bounce on and off the top of the SERPS almost hourly, then they would go back to "normal", they they would go back to "shit", then "shit" became "normal", and that's what we've been stuck with the last couple months.

If we are lucky, (and from what I've been noticing from watching SE patterns for the last 10 years) we are seeing google rolling on and off what will be the new index. Maybe that was just a taste of it.

All that being said, I would not expect Google to reward sites just doing reciprocal linking, so don't get lazy...think outside the box...I am trying some new ideas, some radical, some less radical to try and stay on the crest of the wave.