I say or something as I haven’t heard anything about it. And though I have done little checking, there doesn’t seem to be a huge affect on anything other that the one site that is worrying me. So I am pretty sure they have not actually got new algorithms. But anyway, as I have mentioned before, I run an Erica Durance fan site. It used to be on the first page on Google. Now it has just gone.
I’m not just talking about slipping from the first page. It has gone from the first hundred results in Google. I checked the first 13 pages, nothing. I emailed Google to wonder if they had banned the site or something but they assured me they hadn’t.
Then again it could be to do with the keywords. I spent a lot of time making sure I didn’t mention Erica’s full name too much as I didn’t want it to appear like I was constantly spamming her name. Although I think the amount of times I just mentioned her first name may be my undoing.
Things started to go wrong like a few days ago which was about the same time I added the fan listings which is just weird. I wouldn’t mind (well I would be it would be fair) if it was just some site I had put together to draw in search engine traffic. But my site is the best Erica fan site on the internet!
I thought it was fairly good and up there but to be honest, I don’t rate the competition much at all. My site has 69 news stories, 35 pictures, 76 screen captures and 30 links to other sites in the database. It is a damn good site.
I do like Google as a search engine and I realize it is all automated. But if you have to find a balance between stopping spammers and search engine cheaters and legitimate webmasters. At the moment, depending how many keywords you have on your page determines which search engine your traffic comes from.
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