I often see a post here or there, on a daily basis, of an AdWords advertiser complaining their quality score has significantly dropped and they have been “Google Slapped.” But in the past few days, I have seen an influx of these types of posts. So I suspect a new quality score algorithm was pushed through that Google did not deem significant enough to mention on their blog, but which did have significant impact on many advertisers.

We have two new threads that have complaints from advertisers. One is at DigitalPoint Forums and the other is at WebmasterWorld. Here are some isolated posts from those threads:

Hopefully you were not hit by this latest slap.

Forum discussion at DigitalPoint Forums and WebmasterWorld.