Google search results drop - feeds kicked
February 1, 2008 · Print This Article
Google announced, that all feeds are being removed from search results - they want to prevent users to stumble over different feed variants of the original source, namely the website.
That explains the extraordinary fluctuation in the last days regarding search results for specific tags ( here for example “artViper”, which yielded over 300.000, now dropped to 33.500 results ).
If this has some serious impact on real world search results must be seen in the next weeks, same goes for sites that use feeds for their link strategy and if these pages will be punished or not.
[...] Google announced, that all feeds are being removed from search results - they want to prevent users to stumble over different feed variants of the original source, namely the website. That explains the extraordinary fluctuation in the last days regarding search results for specific tags ( here for example “artViper”, which yielded over 300.000, now dropped to 33.500 results ). If this has some serious impact on real world search results must be seen in the next weeks, same goes for sites tha Source: Google search results drop - feeds kicked [...]