Shops fall out of Google results

eBay sellers watching their traffic reports closely last month might have noticed a drop in their traffic coming via Google. What they didnt realise until today was that Google traffic had fallen not just to individual shops, but to the whole site. An eBay employee on the Powerseller Board (sorry, you cant get in if youre not a PS) described Googles change as a massacre, saying:

one week 2,000 of the keywords we track were returning a Shops page on the first page of results, the next week it was 300.

It seems likely that this is the result of one of Googles periodic changes to their search algorithm: please, lets not have any silly conspiracy theories about revenge for eBays banning of Google Checkout. Lets just hope that eBays search engine optimisation experts can get us back up at the top of the list again soon.

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