Just a quickie.

Back into my AdSense account which also shows an upward trend in page views which suggest we are coming out the other side of the Jagger update. Have checked a couple of searches and they are back near the top.

Will check more later.

I just went to check some other search terms which I have been keeping an eye on and they have not improved. Going back to the ones that I checked earlier I compared the dates of the cached pages. The improved pages are dated (cached) as 6th November whilst the ones that have not improved are dated 26th October.

The conclusion I would draw from this is that it will require the Google robots to do their thing and crawl all my pages before everything gets back to the top.

The update is still finishing up for some people so you may well see more change over the remainder of the week.

Originally Posted by D-A-L

The update is still finishing up for some people so you may well see more change over the remainder of the week.

That's another week gone by and my figures have not returned to what they were. Has the update finished? Normally the page views I would be receiving at this time of year would be increasing anyway (seasonal trend) so it may be I am not going to spring back to the level at which I was at.

Yep things should be fairly settled now by the look of it. Now I would say would be a good time to look at how you can optimise those pages to ensure they are performing as best they can.

Why don't you drop a link to an example page here with some keywords it did rank well for which have now fallen away.

Originally Posted by D-A-L

Why don't you drop a link to an example page here with some keywords it did rank well for which have now fallen away.

One page (I did it for someone I was doing web work for) that I have a record of search results for is:

http://www.hub-uk.com/interesting/leeoras-kitchen.htm

These were the results on 10th October:

"vegetarian wheat and gluten free dishes" - position 5 worldwide
"wheat and gluten free dishes" - position 7 worldwide
"gluten free dishes" - position 25 worldwide
"wheat free dishes" - position 7 worldwide

"vegetarian wheat and gluten free dishes" - position 5 UK search only
"wheat and gluten free dishes" - position 2 UK search only
"gluten free dishes" - position 2 UK search only
"wheat free dishes" - position 7 UK search only

The current results are slightly lower although they have risen back up from what they were ten days ago. I would think this is partly due to newer material appearing and sites that are more prolific with this sort of material.

An additional page was created to push the original page which was:

http://www.hub-uk.com/interesting/coeliac-disease.htm

and the key search term is:

"wheat allergy or wheat intolerance"

which comes 9th for a UK search. As the client has a UK online shop that is a good result.

"wheat intolerance" comes 13th and "wheat allergy" comes 19th - both good results considering I am not one of the many specialist sites.

One of the search terms that does disappoint me is "cooking holidays" which for a worldwide search only comes in at 22. Considering how much information I have in this section of Hub-UK I would expect to be in the top ten at the very least.

What doesn't make sense to me is why the site that is number 1 (http://www.butch.btinternet.co.uk/) is at that position. It is a small site with little information which does not change!

If you search for "cooking holiday" then my result is 8th and 9th worldwide. Even with "cooking vacations" I do better coming in at 12th.

These are search results for Google worldwide which I carried out on 8th November:

"cooking holidays australia" - 3rd and 4th
"cooking holidays france" - 9th and 10th
"cooking holidays india" - 4th and 5th
"cooking holidays indonesia" - 1st and 2nd
"cooking holidays jordan" - 2nd and 3rd
"cooking holidays mexico" - 6th
"cooking holidays morocco" - 5th and 6th
"cooking holidays spain" - 10th
"cooking holidays thailand" - 3rd and 4th
"cooking holidays vietnam" - 4th and 5th

I am not disappointed with any of these search results but it does puzzle me as to why some sites are near the top when they are small sites with not much information which rarely changes. If all these web sites were magazines on the racks of a shop which would be your first choice for finding out about cooking holidays. Mine which covers a great deal of information about what they are like as well as listing over 70 holidays in eleven different countries or one that deals with only one or tow holidays and does not provide much background information? That is what puzzles me about Google results – they don’t produce the most relevant result. Its swings and roundabouts I know and I benefit from this in other areas but it still makes me curious.

My AdSense account is showing the most impressions (for yestrday) since 15th October.

Hopefully that means a return to normality!!

Google is driving me to distraction again.

On the 6th December I wrote to a new subscriber that this page on my site:

www.hub-uk.com/cooking-holidays/introduction.htm

had the following search results:

"culinary tours" - now comes 13th worldwide (I checked and this is not in first ten pages)
"cooking tours" - now comes 11th worldwide.

I had added the following paragraph to the page on the 26th November:

"Whether it is culinary tours to Italy or cooking tours to Italy, gourmet food or wine tasting in France or a cooking tour or culinary vacation in the far east you will find something for everyone. Just click on a link and browse the wonderful array of culinary tours and cooking tours (also referred to as cooking holidays or cooking vacations). "

I wento check to see if they had moved up any further today and the results have disappeared. Where is the sense in that?