Yesterday saw the biggest spike on Rankpulse for the last year and our checks on Mac Dar suggest Big Daddy search results are now offered by nearly half the data centers that we can see.
No reaction on the SEO forum yet - so you could have heard it here first!
Not too sure what the implications are for us - we slip a bit on some keywords and improve on a few.
The SEO forum view seems to be that the spam sites are still very much in evidence but then you don't tend to hear much from the spammers who have been caught and eliminated. On the other hand the Google spin seems to be that this is the introduction of new infrastructure that will progressively clean things up and if that turns out to be correct, searchers and white hat optimizers can only benefit. Thank fully this does not seem to be much of a problem in our neck of the woods - Classical Cat and Karadar consistently take the first pages and then we get some specialists and some oddities like Camper van Beethoven competing with us. The ringtone arena is a little more problematic but even there the spammers are not too evident it is more an issue of overlapping generations of technology.
No reaction on the SEO forum yet - so you could have heard it here first!
Not too sure what the implications are for us - we slip a bit on some keywords and improve on a few.
The SEO forum view seems to be that the spam sites are still very much in evidence but then you don't tend to hear much from the spammers who have been caught and eliminated. On the other hand the Google spin seems to be that this is the introduction of new infrastructure that will progressively clean things up and if that turns out to be correct, searchers and white hat optimizers can only benefit. Thank fully this does not seem to be much of a problem in our neck of the woods - Classical Cat and Karadar consistently take the first pages and then we get some specialists and some oddities like Camper van Beethoven competing with us. The ringtone arena is a little more problematic but even there the spammers are not too evident it is more an issue of overlapping generations of technology.