Anyone else see a drop in SERPS on March 14, 2014?

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Anyone else see a drop in SERPS on March 14, 2014?

kenroar

8:00 pm on Mar 17, 2014 (gmt 0)

I lost 35% of my traffic on March 14, 2014. I've been down that amount since. I don't see anyone talking about any algorithm updates so its hard for me to track down what is happening. I would think that a 35% would indicate something other than one of the hundreds of updates they do on a regular basis throughout the year.

Mentat

9:30 pm on Mar 17, 2014 (gmt 0)

"Google Penalizes German, Italian & Spanish Link Networks"...

That is the latest "info".

Mentat

9:30 pm on Mar 17, 2014 (gmt 0)

"Google Penalizes German, Italian & Spanish Link Networks"...

That is the latest "info".

So... check your link profile for .de .es .it domains.

kenroar

10:01 pm on Mar 17, 2014 (gmt 0)

I have no German, Italian or Spanish link networks. This one doesn't effect me.

Jake90027

1:50 am on Mar 18, 2014 (gmt 0)

I got hit on March 11th. Lost 60% of traffic. It's a uniform drop from both Google US and Google Canada. No links from Spain, Germany, Poland or Italy. Most of rankings dropped -5 positions or -10 positions. It was enough to drop target terms to Page 2. Nothing else too drastic. I saw a lot of blogs and pubs increase in rankings. I also saw many UK, Australian sites move into top 3 pages on Google US. The other thing deals with singular vs. plural terms. Site got hammered on singular term variations and not plural. Usually, Google treated them the same way. Anyone else see something similar?

kenroar

4:51 am on Mar 18, 2014 (gmt 0)

I am hearing from others that they got slammed this week. That's why I'm curious as to why the SEO and SERP forums aren't talking about it. This seems more severe than just the typical algorithm change that occurs hundreds of times a year.

Jake90027

12:50 pm on Mar 18, 2014 (gmt 0)

Maybe this is a niche-specific or content type 'phantom update'? Just a hunch. I read some threads on Google Product Forums about sites with article listings (similar to About.com) getting hit. There was nothing spammy about the sites seeking help on GPF. This is just speculation on my part.

Anyone else see their listing pages take a nose dive in traffic?

kenroar

5:04 am on Mar 19, 2014 (gmt 0)

After recovering from Panda after several years of work it's frustrating to be right back where I started. The only thing I've done differently that would effect SERPS was putting in my authorship tags. But I thought that would improve things with all the talk about authorship.

Vtzete0

2:21 pm on Mar 19, 2014 (gmt 0)

Does anyone think that the Google ads layout change in search could be the reason for traffic declines? One can assume that the redesign of ads was done to increase CTR of ads. An increase in ads CTR means that organic search traffic to your site might be impacted. Just a theory of mine given the change in search traffic without any known algorithm updates.

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