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Client was a design agency, and it was in the UK.  We changed nothing in the 5 days for the result to come back.  To be honest in that period we were doing research and did not want to rush things.

Only happened to one client.

A client of ours who has some really decent links, no directories articles etc.  They dropped off for 5 days last week then just bounced right back.  But the 5 days they were off the results for their keyword was horrendous.  Absolute junk that was not useful to the consumer one bit.

It felt like we were back in 1999 having to search back a few pages to get what we wanted.

Not sure myself but as you said they do seem to be changing a good few times a day.  Some really poor results on page one that are useless for the user in my opinion.

I am pretty certain whatever change is coming in will be something we will be discussing for months to come like Penguin and Panda.

Each day I see different results for some big keywords.  I have seen sites that are less than 12 weeks old with terrible spam links ranking for highly competitive keywords.

They get in the top 5 but dont seem to last longer than 8 weeks in that position.

I am seeing some huge shifts in SERPS at the moment, for some keywords such as web design.  Nearly every single result on the homepage is a different company than 2 weeks ago.  We are seeing some clients have huge jumps in ranks but also some are dropping.

Seems like we could have a big Panda/Penguin like update rolling out.

We are trialing Team work live to manage our projects.  Seems like a good bit of software and much cheaper than basecamp which we previously use.

SEO moz and Google Docs are used daily here.  Along with Majestic at least weekly.

Thank you for your feedback.

Hi

I have a client that has a sites.google.com/ website, Has anyone ever used one ? or had to do SEO on one ?

Any help would be very much appreciated

Thanks

Yeah you will see some poor sites of old coming back.

But surely Panda update would hit your site so you do not rank for a competitive keyword such as "website design"

Its beyond me how you can rank for that phrase without any onpage or mentioning anything to do with the subject.

I am seeing some very strange results for competitive keywords.

If I search on google.co.uk for "website design" which I feel is a pretty tough keyword.  I see a site called http://www.techdesigns.co.uk/

If you go to the site its a laptop review site with no mention of website design on the site. They seem to be an Amazon Affiliate

They have 23,597 links saying website design but mostly from adult websites.

I have seen this on a few result related to SEO but dont want to mention any names in case we upset anyone on the forum.

How can they rank for such a competitive keyword without onpage?  Surely Panda should have hit this site?

Why have they not been hit by Penguin so many adult links?

Sorry if this is anyones site on here I am not looking to get you banned or hit just stumps me why this site ranks.

We have used blogs on a good number of client sites and always got good results from having them.

However do you feel its best to have a blog as a subdomain or included in the site

ie

blog.mydomain.com or mydomain.com/blog

I agree Tina, I think more so in this market to continue link building once you have a local rank could cause you issues.

What do you think about Local SEO.

I see a lot of the sites post Penguin ranking with only 20-30 decent links.

In my opinion keeping it going could be overkill and cause you issues in the future for simple local keywords.   What does anyone else think?

So with all these updates hitting sites left, right and center.

Now you have your desired rank on Google, do you stop link building for that project?

I can see some positives in this

You will not add links that will get hit by future updates.

If you do get hit in future updates you have less links to remove.

Obviously it an outstanding link came along from BBC or CNN you would go for that.  But press releases etc would you now stop anything like that?

like the 404 idea I will try that one.

Not done any work yet trying to get them on as a client.  But I want to be sure we can 100% help, no point taking the project if its not going to improve much for them.

Any one else got any experience with this please chip in.  Surely there must be loads of people who cannot get links removed, they can't all lose there online business due to this.

We have a potential new client who did their own SEO about 6-7 years ago.They ranked really well for years then obviously recently got hit.

Some of the links they have are shocking, directories, articles sites etc.  They did not use links farms but the links do not look great at all.   The problem is they do not have log ins to remove these links manually themselves.  Asking for a reconsideration with Google will not get us anywhere due to more recent link building issues we are trying to resolve.

They have sent removal requests at least 10 times to these sites but no response.  Has anyone overcome these types of issues previously and can give any tips?

This would be a good client for us so keen to see what I can do to get them on-board.