Nov. 9 Algo Update
Hi all,
Last week I read an article about G making updates for 301's in a big way. The article mentioned that G was going to simply disallow the 301 for serp ranking.
So fast forward to this morning. Last week I re-launched my site on a new platform, did my 301's. This morning 90% of my kw's are gone. Most were top 30. Only a handful remain. The rest are off the grid.
The only thing I did was the 301. Content is virtually the same.
Just wondering if anyone else is seeing this today? Or perhaps I am the lucky one that G decided to roll over with their update :-)
Thanks for any feedback.
Last week I read an article about G making updates for 301's in a big way. The article mentioned that G was going to simply disallow the 301 for serp ranking.
So fast forward to this morning. Last week I re-launched my site on a new platform, did my 301's. This morning 90% of my kw's are gone. Most were top 30. Only a handful remain. The rest are off the grid.
The only thing I did was the 301. Content is virtually the same.
Just wondering if anyone else is seeing this today? Or perhaps I am the lucky one that G decided to roll over with their update :-)
Thanks for any feedback.
Comments
I've done this before without issue, maybe even with positive results, if any.
This time, results were horrifying, so much so that I moved everything back. I would have waited it out, as I know SERP position oscillates in such circumstances, but it defied my expectations and was just tanking and tanking on all KWs.
So I freaked, and went back. It's OK now. Like it never happened.
Maybe this was just a random experience not indicative of ANYthing to do with G algo change that would handle 301s differently. But it WAS recent. Maybe not recent enough to be relevant to this discussion, tho?
I want to look into this further. Anyone find out anything more specific?
It seems stupid to pass 0 weight through 301s. Are we all now frozen with present URLs forever, or start fresh at the bottom?