Following on from my last post there has been a great deal of discussion with regards to the latest going ons at the big G.  Many of the SEO forums have a thread running discussing, sometimes with considerable venom, the changes to the Google index.  Lots of very solid sites have all but disappeared and some are saying only to be replaced by more ’spammy’ sites.  I haven’t seen the spammy sites but I have definitely noticed a change since the 7th December.  I have personally had sites that have been solid page ones in Google relegated only to reappear a few days later.

Matt Cutts (Google search engineer) has appeared in the thread linked below saying that Google haven’t changed anything but something has definitely occurred and many say not for the better; only time will tell once the dust has settled.  This has happened at a very awkward time of year for many who make a living online and just goes to show that complete reliance on Google for an online income is a very precarious course to take.

Read the whole thread below:

Webmaster World Google Thread