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No, 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 traffi
by Matt_Cutts 15y ago
No, 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? :)