Google Ranking Changes July 2007
Anybody who monitors their rankings with the same vigor that we in the SEO community do will have noticed some fairly dramatic shifts in the algorithm starting last Thursday (July 5th, 2007) and continuing through the weekend.
Many sites are rocketing into the top 10 SERPs which, of course, means that many sites are being dropped at the same time.
This update seems to have revolved around three main areas:
- Domain age
- Backlinks
- PageRank
Domain Age
It appears that Google is presently giving a lot of weight to the age of a domain and, in this SEO’s opinion, disproportionately so.
While the age of a domain can definitely be used as a factor in determining how solid a company or site is, there are many newer sites that provide some great information and innovative ideas.
Unfortunately a lot of these sites got spanked in the last Google update.Â
Click here to read the rest of the article on the recent Google algorithm changes.
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July 11th, 2007 at 10:58 pm
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