About a month ago, lots of folks were complaining about a ranking shake up... and new listings popping into the pack that were not previously there. I did a bunch of research and ranking analysis but just had not had time to post about it until now. I think below is part of the reason for the shake up. Some of the spam filters were loosened. See examples and tools at the link below...
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