I’m still an IM newb. I have some stuff out there, I’ve made some $$, but I’m still learning. PotPieGirl’s systems are extremely newbie-friendly. Her guides and e-books give you the tools to do things from the ground-up. She offers products in her materials, sure. Some I’ve bought into, others I haven’t. Mostly I won’t buy something if I haven’t done it manually yet. That’s the real difference between her training materials and a lot of other SEO gurus. She always follows her affiliate offers with the caveat that we don’t have to buy anything until we are comfortable. Do it the manual way so you can learn, then come back and look at ways to make your IM work easier.

My advice- use this guide in conjunction with her Mind Eraser method and Article Marketing Secrets guide. With all 3, you’re on your way to building a strong foundation for an online business, for a very small investment. After going through the materials and actually starting your own campaign, take a look at her One Week Marketing guide. Yes, it still works. If Google is still around, most of what you learn regarding fundamental IM techniques still work. The spammy techniques are the ones that go out of style. PotPieGirl’s materials teach you the fundamentals, as well as different ways of thinking creatively.

Although I might sound a bit skeptical, I really like your blog 🙂

Shoot, I put in links, sorry. Remove them if you want. Sorry.

Got the information I was looking for, I’m posting it here for your benefit. Here’s what I know about what happened (I built this for a private group, but I’m posting it here too).

I promised an update when I found out more about the algorithmic updates. There is one confirmed update or technically speaking, one “refresh” to Google Panda and there is one update that they are pretty tight lipped about as of yet (more about this later). This happened on June 8th. If you noticed any ranking changes, then it is due to this “update/refresh.”

However, the June 6th rankings drop was due to a change that they have not talked about that is called, the “Bigfoot update” by insiders in the SEO world. This update seems to be a bigger push into “brand” identity. (This is still theoretical in nature). Here is what some big name SEO people noticed. Google started pushing results for a brand name like “Kohl’s” higher and also looked for other cases not on the site. For example, if the website had listings on the white pages, then it was putting those as close as possible to the website “Kohl’s.” This accounts for the major ranking drops as they moved things around. This could be directly tied into the change over to Google + from Google Maps (my best guess). I will have more information has it comes about, but this is the change that I noticed with a name and some data.

Sources:
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-bigfoot-update-aka-dr-pete-goes-crazy#jtc184520
http://searchengineland.com/official-google-panda-update-version-3-7-on-june-8th-124281

Laura,
Your remark is exactly why I was asking. Many of my websites that I created for clients in the Power 3 Marketing course fell completely off Google’s rankings. I can’t find them in Google’s top 500…but, they all still rank on Yahoo/Bing’s first page. And, I have not seen any new input in the Power 3 Marketing course to help us out…nothing.

On how much you make online, so we can get an idea of: authority, whether to buy your book, whether it’s worth following your lead to work online, etc.

Perspective is important. It allows people to make better informed decisions.

Okay – can you explain that a little more please Jennifer? Those of us in the Elite P3 Marketing forum have now lost our rankings in google for many of our local sites. The description of your product sais that you include information about backlinking post penguin. So, you’re saying that this survival guide won’t help us at all if we’re working in the local marketing space to get our rankings back in google?

I’m gonna be honest with you. I’ve been struggling in this whole affiliate marketing thing for… too long now, (don’t want to say how long) and making little money (very, very little) and seems like Google is always messing around with my head, ranking my site for non-profitable keywords and stucking me in the 56th+ position for those keywords that probably could give me some money, so I consider myself a underneath newby. I’ve always loved your posts, and I’m about to purchase your survivors guide. I was wondering If in the future you could maybe write about how to work with sites in other languages (maybe not a long post, but something usefull), right now I’m struggling with a site in spanish, and thinking about starting with another site from scratch in a different niche, and people call me crazy, but I know I’m not.

Anyway, just wanted to congratulate you and hopefully in the near future I can share my success story with you.

Thanks

Hmmm… odd. But perhaps we’ll hear something from the folks at G.

Hiya Genevieve =)

Sorry for any confusion!

“breaking up with Google” means not relying on them anymore. Sure, I want my good rankings/Google exposure again, but only as ONE source of traffic; not for ALL my traffic. Does that make sense? My section on band-aids tells the part of what I’m doing to help my sites thru the “now” as I work it forward with my Rocket Method.

Also, my C.H.E.A.T. system in the survival guide describes how I am doing it with much, MUCH less regard for Google.

As for ‘finding a problem” – let’s see how to explain this better (and thank you for letting me know it wasn’t clear to you)…

With your narrow example (stop baby crying), that stills sounds like a ‘keyword’ more than a problem. From a problem angle (and I’m thinking on my feet here without even looking into it), I would have a site name something like RockaByeMommy.com and then have my articles talk about situations where babies keep a new mom from sleeping – and the solutions. As a mom, I know I could talk about that type of topic for quite some time…lol!

That’s just off the top of my head – hope it helps some?

Nope, checked the web master tools. Nothing. So, I can at least confirm that it wasn’t a manual slap. I’ve checked the back links, no signs of “negative SEO” or new links. I actually personally checked the results when they came up and they are accurate. I’m pretty baffled by this to be honest. I’ll watch for recovery, but I do not have high hopes. Just going to have to wait 2 weeks and see what happens.

Thanks for expanding on that, Scott.

I can’t say any one thing popped out at me yesterday (6-6) but since I was busy working on other projects, I didn’t really look at everything in-depth (but I will now).

The drop from 1 to 580 is pretty massive. Was there a notice inside Webmaster tools or anything like that?

I do know that some rank tracking programs kinda “glitch” when the G data centers are varying wildly. One check might show a normal first page ranking and then next (on another data center) will show something totally whack.

Did they recently do anything regarding their back link profile? Do you see anything new done TO their back links?

A lot could be going on here… and yes, G might have rolled something out or refreshed something, no doubt.

I’ll keep my eyes and ears open for ya, but just keep an eye on it right now. One day of weird rankings does not mean anything permanent.

Thanks for sharing!

Let me understand, when you Google search for “business name” the business website comes on the 580th position??

Keep in mind this is ranking for a business name that is unique and there are no competitors with a similar name.

Yeah, sorry. A few of the sites I worked with experienced massive hits yesterday. So, I was crawling around the web looking for instances of the same thing happening to other people. I found 4 other businesses in the US who reiterated what happened the sites I consult with (not including my own) at this time. I also saw evidence the change is as far reaching as France (as we know, has different Google results than we do in the US.) However, none of the big name marketers or SEO people have mentioned it as of yet. Matt Cutts at SMX Advanced (yesterday) said specifically, “No new Penguin updates have been rolled out”. This means that there have not been any since the one rolled out over last weekend.

I know you watch the rankings closely. Thought I’d ask you, because I saw an instance of a site with natural links (I’ve checked the link profile and the density – it is 58 back links) and a domain age of 2 years drop from position 1 to position 580.

“..a search turned up at least 4 different businesses…”

Sorry, that confuses me. Could you give more detail?

I’ve noticed a major roller coaster ride going on. Many urls I track are Top 10 at point of the day (or hour) and then down into the 200’s – 300’s the next. Been crazy to watch.

Just wondering if you saw the weirdness on 6 6 2012 having to do with the search engine rankings. Seems none of the big guns are talking about it, yet, a search turned up at least 4 different businesses and several lower level marketers noticing it (including some in France). Did you notice anything?