A couple of posts in today’s Search Engine Roundtable indicate some possible changes in the offing for both Google and Bing.
Google’s changes for July seem pretty insignificant – webmasters discussing these events in a WebmasterWorld thread are noticing old data show up in Google, indicating a possible “rollback.” Things like old cache, old dates and old snippets are appearing. It’s unclear if this is a rollback, an old index or the beginnings of something much bigger.
Stay tuned to the search engine optimization e-blog for any updates.
Bing is also doing some updating of its own. Chatter on the forums indicates a clear update – sites with high rankings now have poor rankings and vice versa. One commenter on HighRankings forum says this is nothing new for Microsoft’s search engine. Bing is currently dropping sites and pages like crazy at the moment, which has been a common practice for MSN search in the past.
Here’s an excerpt of what’s going on:
“I was no.1 for my main keyword, and had been there for quite some time. Though I went to show a client an example and searched for my term in bing and now i’m not in the top 200?
Was a bit embarrasing to say the least!”
See these WebMaster World and Bing Community threads for more insights.
Check back again soon with seo-e.com for any updates and current happenings with the search engines.
Tags: bing, google, search engine optimization
