It might be a temporary glitch but I’ve noticed Big Mouth (who historically rank extremely well on some competitive terms) seem to have been dropped for a number of big money terms like search engine optimisation and affiliate marketing. I’m pretty sure they were on page 1 for these last week.
Interestingly it looks like the homepage has been completely removed from the cache which makes me think this might be a temporary problem.
There’s also something weird going on with their url’s-
Big Mouth had some problems a few years ago when they allegedly got banned for a short time for hiding text on their homepage. I can’t see any problems with the current homepage which could have caused a penalty but I bet some of the other agencies on page 1 are enjoying the extra traffic today:-)
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#1 by Lyndon Antcliff at May 11th, 2009
It’s interesting who does rank for the term. Glad to see a few pals are up there.
Why not ask Andrew Girdwood what’s up at SMX next week? Could be a scoop
#2 by James at May 11th, 2009
I can’t find the homepage in Googles index at all. A search for BigMouthMedia.com shows the vacancies page and site:bigmouthmedia.com doesn’t seem to show it either.
Quite strange.
#3 by John at May 11th, 2009
@james- yep and if you do a site: commend at their internal services pages you don’t get the main page returned you get a version of the page with a url parameter in it i.e. http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=site%3Abigmouthmedia.com%2Fproducts_services%2Fsearch_engine_optimisation%2F&btnG=Search&meta=
Makes me think its a CMS glitch of some sort rather than a penalty?
#4 by James at May 11th, 2009
Yeah I think i agree with you.
As far as I am aware they haven’t been doing anything very dodgy
They maybe a little link happy with the internal linking but I am not sure if it is worth a penalty, especially considering there are plenty of other companies out there doing far worse.
#5 by David Eaves at May 11th, 2009
I noticed this over the weekend, takes my site a place higher. This will be a glitch of some description. BigMouthMedia are about as white hat as they come.
#6 by John at May 11th, 2009
@david- Now if only wikipedia and those annoying Google news results would get themselves removed:-)
#7 by David Eaves at May 11th, 2009
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#8 by Ed at May 15th, 2009
This has become a very typical behavior of Google lately. I’ve recently seen many other webmasters facing ranking drops and penalty-like effects in Google. Very confusing and uncool from Google, but most sites seem to recover their rankings in a few days/weeks.
#9 by Frank at January 6th, 2010
Was a 302 gone wrong as far as I remember.