Hi

On a web site I own and operate, I occasionally track the Google SERPs
for a number of keywords/phrases (I'm not obsessive about it - just do
it now and then to publish on our "why you should be listed on our web
site page). I just checked the SERPs again today and found that,
compared to 12 February 2005, Google is showing fewer total results for
quite a few key phrases.

Examples below:

12 Feb 2005 08 Feb 2005
=========== ===========
Keyphrase#1 13,600,000 8,720,000
Keyphrase#2 11,700,000 8,060,000
Keyphrase#2 UK 3,160,000 3,420,000 (UK increase)
Keyphrase#4 1,430,000 725,000
Keyphrase#4 UK 464,000 753,000 (UK increase)
Keyphrase#5 1,310,000 950,000
Keyphrase#6 5,120,000 3,070,000
Keyphrase#7 3,050,000 3,130,000 (increase)
Keyphrase#7 UK 1,010,000 1,270,000 (UK increase)

As you can see, some of these are quite substantial decreases (and a few
increases). Anyone else noticing a similar thing in their sector?

Cheers.

--
Jane Patience - The Friendly-Places Team
http://www.friendly-places.com
Friendly Accommodation in the UK and Ireland

hi,

yes. i noticed that yesterday, but today it was all the same again.

In article <ZRK8buAZgfLCFwYv@virgin.net>, Patience Design
<jane@patience.co.uk> writes
>
> 12 Feb 2005 08 Feb 2005
> =========== ===========

Oops - you all probably guessed that date above the second column should
have been 08 March of course.

Cheers

--
Jane Patience
http://www.friendly-places.com
Friendly Accommodation in the UK and Ireland

In article <1110319145.157962.230880@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups .com>,
wlodi <mwlodarski@gmail.com> writes
>hi,
>
>yes. i noticed that yesterday, but today it was all the same again.
>

Hi

Interesting. I see some of them have gone back up again today, but some
are still a bit lower than 12 Feb, which I what I would consider normal
fluctuation. The big drops I was seeing yesterday were a bit of a
surprise!

Cheers.

--
Jane Patience
http://www.friendly-places.com
Friendly Accommodation in the UK and Ireland

A few ideas.

Google is dropping pages from its index, not that likely.

Google is being more targetted in the pages it returns due to an
algorithm change.

Google is calculating a different total due to an algo change.

I suppose that the total figure is a bit of a guess by Google anyway
based on its hashes of website content, it only lets you access the
first 1000 or so results.


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