Timing of actions

[T-J-I]

Hi

Just got a question looking at the general timing of events and wanting to know what is the norm.

I've seen on here recently talk of eBay losing ranking in the last few days, and here in the UK news, we have had info today of security issues at the company stemming from being hacked late Feb - early March.

Are those two events linked?  If so, what is the mechanism by which google would affect the ranking of an established company like this, for an issue like that?

And more generally, what are the typical timings of cause and effect with regards to google responding with demoting rank for more general issues?

Thanks in advance...... tom

[KevinBudzynski]

I don't believe the two events are related. It's more related to Panda 4.0 and their use of thin content and doorway pages.

According to an excellent article on wordstream by Larry Kim: "When you search for specific products and see an organic search result, chances are, it's leading you to a doorway page – an internal search results page on eBay with very little content..."