Google and Web Traffic

June 28, 2006 · Filed Under Uncategorized · 5 Comments 

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.

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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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