The first month of the year has already past, which makes it time for the monthly IndexWatch. Every month for the past two years, I have listed the winners and losers in Google's index based on the SISTRIX Visibilityindex. As usual, I will start out with the winning side:

Winners

#	Domain	Change
1	njobs.de	+1.414%
2	multimania.de	+913%
3	quelle.de	+458%
4	billiger.de	+276%
5	cluburlaub.de	+274%
6	photocase.com	+198%
7	klatsch-tratsch.de	+154%
8	b2b-trade.de	+135%
9	indeed.de	+122%
10	fruehbucherrabatt.net	+118%
11	11880.com	+116%
12	verkehrsmittelvergleich.de	+100%
13	musik-base.de	+81%
14	webhelp.de	+80%
15	hsv.de	+78%

Quelle.de is slowly regaining visibility, which had gone down considerably in the last few month, after they nearly shut down all of their webservices over the course of their bankruptcy proceeding. And while it is still going to be a long while before the domain regains its former strength, they are moving in the right direction. Interesting on this note is that, for a while, Google thought that the domain “apanda.de” was a legitimate successor of “quelle.de”, which became apparent when Google returned the domain for a search for "quelle”. Personally, I could not say whether this was a mistake in Google's algorithm or if something else went down, but it would still be interesting to know the reasons for this.

Another domain that once again surfaced after a prolonged dive is Musik-Base.de. Long ago build by a SEO-veteran, the site has gone through a few owners as well as different uses over the last few years, which seemed to have gotten rid of its Google-Love. Recent news suggest that the site has changed back into the hands of its creator and I wish Frank the best in making it successful again.

Losers

#	Domain	Change
1	tomsgutscheine.de	-100%
2	arzt-preisvergleich.de	-98%
3	yigg.de	-97%
4	lm-boerse.com	-96%
5	pricerunner.de	-95%
6	deals.de	-93%
7	photocase.de	-89%
8	apanda.de	-88%
9	mediaonline.de	-85%
10	wunschauto24.com	-85%
11	hasenchat.de	-82%
12	freeware-archiv.de	-74%
13	promarkt.de	-73%
14	cosmopolitan.de	-70%
15	9live.de	-66%

This months losers also have some interesting cases among them: Yigg.de should be the loser thats know best, especially for those in the SEO-scene. The domain did not get it's mojo back after the botched relaunch in mid-2008 and has, for the past three weeks, also managed to get a full blown penaltyput on its site. While we can only speculate on the reasons, I can vaguely remember that Yigg.de sold optimized landingpages on its site for a while.

Cosmopolitan.de managed to massively lose good rankings within the last two weeks. The following are but an example: horoskope (horoscopes) from 5 down to 36, kurzhaarschnitte (short hairstyles) from 5 to 58 or styling from 5 to 89. These are only three of thousands. Though this could not be due to the number of indexed pages: they have increased rather than decreased.