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Hacker News was penalized by recent Google Panda update (11th April).
- jakeludington 15y agoMany great content sites were hit by Panda. I would take ehow in the results over most of the garbage Google indirectly promoted when the made algorithm changes.
- tptacek 15y agoGOOD. HN's placement on Google search results is extremely disconcerting to me. I'm trying to have a conversation with HN people, not the whole Internet.
- Matt_Cutts 15y agoNo, it wasn't. When I saw this headline I went and checked on news.ycombinator.com, and it wasn't affected. In fact, Hacker News actually got more Google traffic on Monday, 5/23 compared with Monday, 4/11.
- Zakuzaa 15y agoWow, thanks. I submitted because Alexa is fairly accurate with very high traffic sites, and the drop in HN's rank and reach seemed to coincide with Google Panda roll out.
- Matt_Cutts 15y agoNo worries, happy to clarify.
- redduck666 15y agonot questioning your statement, but traffic from two arbitrary days doesn't prove much :)
- Matt_Cutts 15y agoOkay redduck666, I summed the most recent week of traffic sent to combinator.com from Google that I had data for, and then I summed a week of traffic sent to combinator.com from Google including 4/11 (while keeping the days aligned). Google sent over 20% more traffic in the most recent week when compared to the week of 4/11. I hope that the longer baseline + the fact that traffic increased--not decreased--is enough to convince you? :)
- citricsquid 15y agoDon't trust Alexa, please...
- sp332 15y agoI don't see a drop in traffic in those stats - am I looking in the wrong place? Edit: I think I found it, in mid-April there's a spike downward. But it recovers quickly, and it's not the biggest - change the view to 6 months or max and you can see some crazy changes at times.
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- pstack 15y agoWhy is this a problem? How many of you actually stumbled onto Hacker News via a google search? People put way too much emphasis on their listing on Google. If you're selling doodads, then I guess that's important, but otherwise word of mouth is your overwhelming winner. In fact, I would say that goes for almost every site I visit regularly. I use Google to find tidbits of information. One-off questions. I can't think of a single site that I have ever discovered via google that is something I visit regularly.