Search Engines SEO

I was still struggling with figuring out why all of my sites lost traffic on September 28, 2012.  My sites aren’t exact match domains, and the content had never been affected by Panda (as far as I could tell).  It is possible that with Panda 20 some factor that was helping me before got taken out, or something new that is now hurting me was added. I kept reading on… Read More »Maybe I was an Exact Match Domain algorithm false positive?

One reason I haven’t been active on Google plus is because of their pseudonym policy.  Originally, they strictly banned pseudonyms, but now it seems they do allow pseudonyms that have a “significant” following.  They haven’t defined what that means – and I’m guessing my identity at this point may not be “significant”. I made some recent changes to this site, to try to figure out why the rankings have suffered… Read More »Is there a way to get a pseudonym approved in advance on Google plus?

I’ve seen a continued downward trend since last September’s Panda 20 update.  My sites that lost about 50% of their traffic overnight are now down to about 35% of their previous traffic.  It basically seems each week they lose a bit more traffic.  The pattern of traffic has also been very strange since hit by Panda 20. Basically, my traffic is reasonable in the morning and evening, but then something… Read More »Google Panda still hurting me

I’m still very perplexed by the update that happened on September 28, 2012.  It seems all of my websites were hit, no matter how they were designed, how they were formatted, what the topics were, or how good the quality of the material was.  My sites all seemed to take a 50% hit in traffic.  It has now been four months and I’ve seen no consistent evidence of any change,… Read More »Exact match domain and Panda 20 – how do they work?

When I first started this blog, I posted some thoughts on the Mayday Update of 2010 and how the Google Caffeine architecture was maybe a part of their ability to do some interesting things.  A lot has changed with Google since that time, with much of the recent interest being on the Panda and Penguin updates.  I haven’t posted much of my thoughts on those updates as neither had affected… Read More »My sites got slammed September 28, 2012