Drop in Rankings

[equipezorgbedrijven]

UPDATE*

I temporarily removed the images from the page to check if rankings would come back and they did. So Google made a recent update in the Netherlands where they look at your page for adult content (pictures). For us it was breast augmentations, before and after pics.

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Hey Guys,

We have a site for plastic surgery in the Netherlands. We ranked on number 2 if someone searched for breast augmentation. But sinds 31 of januari our ranking dropped outside the top 50. I did not get a warning or an other message in Search Console.

We have a lot of pictures on the website displaying before and after pictures. So you see breasts. Does anybody know if google rolled out an update where they look at photo's with audult content? We didnt do any linkbuilding or other black hat stuff.

Kind regards,

Ruud

[Alick300]

Hi Ruud,

There is a unconfirmed Google update around 1st Feb 2017. to know more please check below link.

http://searchengineland.com/unconfirmed-google-algorithm-update-may-better-discounting-links-spam-268637

Have you checked in Google search console?

Thanks

[ViviCa1]

We did see a shift in traffic from 31/1 onward but for us it was an increase. I also think there may have been an algorithm update of some sort.

[equipezorgbedrijven]

Yes i know about the link spam but it is not about the links and Google Search Console doesnt say anything. I really think it has to do with the images on the page. They show women's breasts. That is the only thing that i could imagine. One more competitor with the same sort of images has seen this drop, out of top 50