The Google Penguin Algorithm swallowed up the page ranks of several websites |
If your website has lost a significant number of page views
and dropped in page rank over the last week, then the Google Panda and Penguin
algorithm updates are the culprits.
Google changed their algorithm once again and turned the SEO world
upside down. My page hits from Google on my Hubpages blog
dried up completely and my page rank is now irrelevant. I was at 200 views a day on my P90X story,
but now I am down to about 20 views a day on my entire blog. I am lucky to get 5 of my views from Google
searches. It seems that the whole
Hubpages community has been pushed way down the page rankings by this Google algorithm
update.
No one knows exactly why Google decided to hammer the page ranking of certain websites, but there is plenty of speculation regarding the way that Google has “leveled the playing field”. Some Google owned sites may or may not benefit from the penguin update. I did a few Google searches and I don’t see any reason to believe that Google is punishing their completion. Yahoo, one of Google’s main competitors, was even on the first page for one of my Google searches. The Penguin algorithm update was designed to punish spammy websites and promote high quality, high content based websites. Let’s face it, blogging sites are kind of spammy. If I want a source for information, I can’t rely on a blogger. I want a news source. I’m not saying that bloggers pump out false information (even though some do), because I know that most bloggers value their readers and their reputations as writers. What I am saying is that when I am searching Google, I want to be 100% sure that the information that I am getting is correct. Sites like the Mayo Clinic should not be ranked below Granny’s medical advice just because Granny knows how to stuff keywords. It is a shame that good content provided by bloggers is being punished due to this correction, but as an internet user I value quality internet searches as much as the next guy. It seems that blog hosting sites like Hubpages need to clean up their act in order to gain favor with the Google algorithm again.
No one knows exactly why Google decided to hammer the page ranking of certain websites, but there is plenty of speculation regarding the way that Google has “leveled the playing field”. Some Google owned sites may or may not benefit from the penguin update. I did a few Google searches and I don’t see any reason to believe that Google is punishing their completion. Yahoo, one of Google’s main competitors, was even on the first page for one of my Google searches. The Penguin algorithm update was designed to punish spammy websites and promote high quality, high content based websites. Let’s face it, blogging sites are kind of spammy. If I want a source for information, I can’t rely on a blogger. I want a news source. I’m not saying that bloggers pump out false information (even though some do), because I know that most bloggers value their readers and their reputations as writers. What I am saying is that when I am searching Google, I want to be 100% sure that the information that I am getting is correct. Sites like the Mayo Clinic should not be ranked below Granny’s medical advice just because Granny knows how to stuff keywords. It is a shame that good content provided by bloggers is being punished due to this correction, but as an internet user I value quality internet searches as much as the next guy. It seems that blog hosting sites like Hubpages need to clean up their act in order to gain favor with the Google algorithm again.
The Google Monopoly can pick winners and losers through page rankings |
If you lost page views or page rank from the Penguin or
Panda Google algorithm updates then here is what you need to focus on according
to Google:
1. Avoid hidden text or hidden links.
2. Don’t use cloaking or sneaky redirects.
3. Don’t send automated queries to Google.
4. Don’t load pages with irrelevant keywords.
5. Don’t create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains
with substantially duplicate content.
6. Don’t create pages with malicious behavior, such as
phishing or installing viruses, trojans, or other badware.
7. Avoid “doorway” pages created just for search engines,
or other “cookie cutter” approaches such as affiliate programs with little or
no original content.
8. If your site participates in an affiliate program,
make sure that your site adds value. Provide unique and relevant content that
gives users a reason to visit your site first.
I don’t remember doing any of these things with my Hubpages
account, but maybe the developers of Hubpages did something that Google did not
like. My Hubpages shut down could be a
correction of some of Hubpages high Google rankings in the past. Or, it could just be an oversight by the
algorithm that will be corrected soon. I
am hoping for the later, or that the Hubpages developers will get things sorted
out for its users. My blog is not that
well known, but some people have years of work and their living wrapped up in
their blogs. If they can not get Google
views they will suffer immeasurably. We
will have to wait and see how everything works out. The
best tips that I have heard to succeed on the internet is to produce quality
content and write on a .com, .org .net etc. website that is not a subdomain of
a larger company. Good luck with the
Google Panda and Penguin king makers, may they grant you plenty of page views
and high page rank in the future.
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ReplyDeleteCris Monde said...
ReplyDeleteMany websites have dropped their sites since Google released its new algorithm. Maybe they found out that they're using some black hat SEO and some spammy techniques. In order for us to avoid that and prevent our site ranking, we must still stick on white hat SEO and get more on social networking sites.
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