Could pigeon have caused this

[EdBen]

Hi We have a site Schoolguide.co.uk which list and ranks all the school within the UK. on the 25 of August it just dropped off the face of Google.co.uk for all the local search terms. Things like "Schools in kent" so on. Now we are having trouble figuring out why. It's been suggested it could be something to do with Google "pigeon" update.

Now I have been doing some reading up on it and it seem that with was more about cutting down the size of the local listings. Our site is a directory and does not have local listing as such (set up in Google places). Could this have been caused by "pigeon"? I would have thought it would have improved it? Is anyone else seeing these kind of changes?

[LindaBuquet]

As far as we all know Pigeon is still only living in the US, plus the timing does not match. Pigeon hit July 24th. Plus we normally refer to Pigeon in relationship to the local page (Google Places). And if anything Pigeon seems to have given directories even more of a boost.

But there was a different update that affected local that reportedly started on exactly 8/25. Carter from SerpWoo just did a really long complicated post full of about 20 screenshots at my forum last night, showing and explaining it.

So due to timing, I think it maybe could be this other algo that's affecting you, since it hit the same day, but of course that's just a guess. And no one else is talking about this update and I don't really understand everything he said to be honest because his tool is really complicated and difficult for me to understand fully. (Or I should say I have not made the time to figure it out yet.)

[EdBen]

Thanks. Could you give me a link to that post?

[LindaBuquet]

I'm sorry but I don't know if I can/should link out here.

Let me see if Miriam or a Mozzer says it's OK to.