A couple of sites hit hard in December are at least back to the first few pages for their main keywords - before December were in the first few positions. For sub page keywords they are still nowhere.
Haven't spotted any others going down, so hopefully its a, very slight, improvement.
I've just done a search for a quote enclosed 3 word phrase. It brings up 7 pages.
One of which links to something useful but the link is incorrectly laid out, so doesn't actually work
one which is a poor but acceptable result,
another couple are search engines,
one is a strange redirect (misleading)
one is a page who's php appears to be broken
one links to a page with a couple of useful links to other sites on.
Today is going well, not sure what it is, whether it's the google update or the rumour that one of my sites was acknowledged on a radio station today. Using a bit of common, it was probably the latter, nothing to suggest google is doing its best...
I'm making a guess here that there's a reduced emphasis on "on page" factors and an increase in "off page" factors. Sites with a lot of authority links from different sources are up, sites reliant on internal linking and keyword density appear to be down.
complete wipeout, managed to dodge most of the updates till now. ah well, had a good run
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