SERP Changes

[ssg]

few normal changes only

[xecutable]

A few days ago, everything that was 'exact domain match' moved up by a lot.

[thebookiesoffers]

A few days ago, everything that was 'exact domain match' moved up by a lot.

not noticed that at all in the SERPS i check

[-Shay-]

not noticed that at all in the SERPS i check

I've not noticed such a thing either.

[xecutable]

Could be, a trending thing. It's a new division in the sports betting I can say that's growing in a way. The competition is low, that could be a reason.

[ocreditor]

A few days ago, everything that was 'exact domain match' moved up by a lot.

I also noticed this trend, not sure how much this will hold but its very clear that exact domains get a "bit" more priority

[-Shay-]

I also noticed this trend, not sure how much this will hold but its very clear that exact domains get a "bit" more priority

As they should in my opinion.

[xecutable]

Have you checked to which audience the boost is. What I've noticed is that for me the boost comes only to the audience I have targeted (and where the site's host is located), hence UK and google dot co dot uk.

[freebetsfreetips]

We noticed a fairly big change (for the worse) yesterday but think it is just general tinkering. We tend to find google will be nice to us for a few weeks then turn. Content that was written when we appeared to be in favour will usually continue to rank fine but any new content gets nowhere and because we are primarily a tipping site a lot of the content is very time-specific so this affects us a lot.

Anyone have any thoughts or find the same thing happens for them?

[ocreditor]

Have you checked to which audience the boost is. What I've noticed is that for me the boost comes only to the audience I have targeted (and where the site's host is located), hence UK and google dot co dot uk.

What do you mean by "the boost comes only to the audience I have targeted" ?

Also, how did you make the connection to the host ?

[xecutable]

Well I target UK audience, hence I saw the boost only on google.co.uk and not in the .com one, on the same keywords.

[ocreditor]

That make sense, thanks for sharing !

[xecutable]

You are welcome. Yeah I am not sure if the host has anything to do with it, but I just threw that in, as they all match, UK host, Google UK, UK audience.

[ocreditor]

You are welcome. Yeah I am not sure if the host has anything to do with it, but I just threw that in, as they all match, UK host, Google UK, UK audience.

I still think the host got nothing to do with it, Google just interested in site loading speed for the benefit of the user, so if you have host out side UK which is faster than UK host for the UK audience (which is possible) the results will be in favor of the host which is out side UK.

This is the only way it make sense to me otherwise it'll be not a "fair" ranking in my opinion...

[thebookiesoffers]

I still think the host got nothing to do with it, Google just interested in site loading speed for the benefit of the user, so if you have host out side UK which is faster than UK host for the UK audience (which is possible) the results will be in favor of the host which is out side UK.

This is the only way it make sense to me otherwise it'll be not a "fair" ranking in my opinion...

everything I have read seems to suggest the opposite, hosting in the country you target is better. Although I dont care, I just go straight to vidahost

[xecutable]

From what I know, hosting country is a ranking factor. In fact I am pretty sure it is and someone had tested it with 2 domains, one hosted in the UK and another having only set Webmaster Tools to target the UK. It was in a thread somewhere here.

[baldidiot]

Google have flat out said on many occasions that they use hosting location (among other things) as an indicator of your target country.

[casinovegas]

Seems everything is up and down at the minute!

[sarahangel]

No changes.

[bauss]

I haven't had any big changes in terms of rankings with my site, but we're slowly climbing to the top for our keywords.