Google and Web Traffic
I’ve been reading LiewCf.com for quite sometime and his recent post of a sudden drop of traffic caught my attention. According to him, daily visitors from 8000 was reduced to 2000 due to the latest Google Index updates. What amazed me about the post is the number of bloggers that pool in their knowledge, dropping their comments and suggestion on how to improve his web ranking again.
Some blame it on the Text Link, while others says that his web is full of advertisements, which trigger an alert in Googleplex thus was dropped from Google’s search engine.
My conculsion would be slightly different from others, I believe Google knows that most of the blogs out there tend to quote (steal) somebody’s article and drop a few line of their own comments, its like plagarism but in a polite way by linking back to the original author. I believe Mr.Liew’s website has too many articles that was quoted from other source with his short 2 cent worth of conclusion. This might be the main reason why Google drop his url from their search engine, he might have been black listed because of the massive quoting.
The best blog would be those that has original content, highlight your original content like how Darren Rowse from Problogger.net did it. I’ve tried what Darren Rowse did on my other blogs, and I am glad to say that it works. Traffic on my other blogs that highlights my best and original post experience a tsunami increase of readers and traffic by 100%, profit from Google Adsense increase 100%.
LiewCF weakness would be his faith in Google, I’m not saying Google is a bad search engine, I’m a loyal Google user, from their gmail to blogspot. What I’m trying to say is we should optimize our blog for all search engine, be it Yahoo or MSN. We should diversify into other areas, be it online affiliate or offline affiliate. My suggestion for Mr.Liew would be - highlight your best and original post, stop quoting from other blogs, diversify into other search engine, and change the look of your blog, make it a little bit more presentable and reduce the number of ads. One or two Google Adsense would be enough.
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John
June 28th, 2006Do you really think the number of Adsense ads would affect Google traffic?
Obviously we don’t know the contents of Google’s secret sauce, but it would seem strange for them to allow an amount of ads (via their policies) that they *knew* would decrease traffic (their revenue) to a site.
LcF
June 28th, 2006Thanks for your honest comment. You are right on the quoted content. It was my blogging style. I am now focus on original content.
By the way, Darren’s photo blog also quoting a LOT from other website, but it is all right?
Actually, I never optimise for Google. I just did some general SEO. How to optimize for Yahoo or MSN? I am using only 2 adsense ads per page (exclude link unit) with some other ads.
Yes, I will use a new web design soon. :)
admin
June 29th, 2006John :
it won’t effect the traffic from google if you have lots of ads, you’re site would be not so user friendly and chances of a new visitor becoming a loyal reader would be almost nile.
Different people have different approach, I believe a simple website with one or 2 ads would be enough, anything more than that is off the limits.
LcF:
Yeah, I do agree on Darren’s blog on quoting from somebody, personally I don’t visit his blog except for Problogger.net, most of his other blogs are quotes from somebody’s article by rearranging the words and grammers. Problogger.net is his best blog and I believe it is his money making blog among all, not much of a quoting there.
You should optimize your image for search engine, my other personal blog has a good traffic from Google Image, last month I got 15,000 hits from people searching using Google Image, compare with 1500 hits from the main keyword Google Search engine.
Not many bloggers are tapping the image searching feature, its a good way to generate traffic from Google Image, competition is almost nil.
LcF
June 30th, 2006tell you a secret, Darren make money revenue from his copy-paste photoblog. Problogger.net is not making good money for him. ;)
if you check my image code, I actually put title and alt for each image.
admin
June 30th, 2006if that is true, i am sad to say that its a bad thing to do. I believe almost everybody can come up witha review of cameras and many more, but without actually using these cameras, how can one reviews it? simply by reading and put in in your own words?
I can do that too but decided not to, its not right. I have to try things out first if possible and give my opinion.