Google seems to be rolling out a major update which began last night and is running into this morning with a lot of webmasters witnessing “radical” changes within their industries.

In Webmaster World there is a discussion going on dubbed April 2008 Google SERP Changes:

It would appear we are in for an old style Google shake up. From what I’ve seen listed on a variety of blogs a number of long standing sites listed on the first page have been delisted or dumped way back.

I’ve had one site online since 1997 that had a lock on the top spot for my keywords on and off for four years on Google just go “poof”, all that’s left of it is two obscure pages I haven’t changed since about 2001 ;~)

So far I’ve received nothing in the way of messages on webmaster tools, and my site went missing in action after March 16TH. I’m just going to wait it out to see if the old girl gets relisted. I’ve gone over the whole thing and there’s nothing on the site that breaks any Google guidelines unless there is something new in the algo.

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