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[goldcougar]

I haven't seen anyone talking much about this update yet on this forum. Google appears to have made some changes. I know that I lost 2 sites off of the first 20 results on google for all of our major keywords. What was the major change in this update?

[admin]

This update is not as big as some in the past, particularly the one in Nov 2003. I have seen some sites go down and others up. After updates this extensive, there is always a lot of tweaking and shuffling that occurs in the following weeks. Results pages are not stable, and may not be for several days. Its not even worth trying to analyze an update for at least 1 week.

[7thDsites]

In a thread run on WebMasterWorld entitled "Questions For Google Guy," GG offered up this advice:

"Here's the advice that I'd give now: take a break from checking ranks for several more days. Bourbon includes something like 3.5 improvements in search quality, and I believe that only a couple are out so far. The 0.5 will go out in a day or so, and the last major change should roll out over the next week or so.

"Then there will still be some minor changes after that as well. So my "weather report" along the lines of http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000095.html would be a recommendation that rankings may still change somewhat over the next several days."