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What did Google do to my Wordpress.com hosted blog on Jun 14th?

6 points by cpswan 15y ago

nbpoole 15y ago
The title posted here is misleading. Why do you think your blog's traffic numbers imply that Google did something to impact Wordpress.com as a whole?
- cpswan 15y ago
  I made the implication because something seems to have changed fairly fundamentally, and although it may be ridiculous to extrapolate from such limited data I wouldn't be at all surprised if other Wordpress.com users are affected.
- cpswan 15y ago
  Title updated.
dpcan 15y ago
The take away here is that Google may be far too powerful for our own good. On any given day, if Google and its algorithms deem you unworthy, your livelihood, income, traffic, etc, could be washed out to sea and there isn't much you can do about it. We've all allowed Google to have this power. Oops. I sell on android. Very soon the new market client is supposed to come out, based on what they said at Google I/O. On that day, I may never sell another app, but I have no idea what will happen, maybe I'll sell a million, but at least I'm aware that I'm at their mercy.
- bauchidgw 15y ago
  sorry, but with a sample size of 250 visits / day /blog such a takeaway is a little bit overblown. rankings and google traffic are a fickle thing, yeah, so what? that just means that you heve to be clever-er.
  - cpswan 15y ago
    If the search terms had dropped the post from page 1 to page 2 then no big deal, but there seems to be more to it than that. Terms that were frequently bringing visitors aren't now showing up anywhere near where near where things were before. The general tone of feedback seems to be that this is normal, nothing interesting to see, move along. I was just hoping for a better explanation than that.
bauchidgw 15y ago
1) pretty small sample size 2) go to webmaster tools -> your site on the web -> search quieries -> look for answers
- cpswan 15y ago
  'no data available', but as I said I don't especially care about SEO, so I didn't have the tools configured.

6 points by cpswan 15y ago

The title posted here is misleading. Why do you think your blog's traffic numbers imply that Google did something to impact Wordpress.com as a whole?

cpswan 15y ago
I made the implication because something seems to have changed fairly fundamentally, and although it may be ridiculous to extrapolate from such limited data I wouldn't be at all surprised if other Wordpress.com users are affected.
cpswan 15y ago
Title updated.

dpcan 15y ago

The take away here is that Google may be far too powerful for our own good. On any given day, if Google and its algorithms deem you unworthy, your livelihood, income, traffic, etc, could be washed out to sea and there isn't much you can do about it. We've all allowed Google to have this power. Oops. I sell on android. Very soon the new market client is supposed to come out, based on what they said at Google I/O. On that day, I may never sell another app, but I have no idea what will happen, maybe I'll sell a million, but at least I'm aware that I'm at their mercy.

bauchidgw 15y ago
sorry, but with a sample size of 250 visits / day /blog such a takeaway is a little bit overblown. rankings and google traffic are a fickle thing, yeah, so what? that just means that you heve to be clever-er.
- cpswan 15y ago
  If the search terms had dropped the post from page 1 to page 2 then no big deal, but there seems to be more to it than that. Terms that were frequently bringing visitors aren't now showing up anywhere near where near where things were before. The general tone of feedback seems to be that this is normal, nothing interesting to see, move along. I was just hoping for a better explanation than that.

bauchidgw 15y ago

1) pretty small sample size 2) go to webmaster tools -> your site on the web -> search quieries -> look for answers

cpswan 15y ago
'no data available', but as I said I don't especially care about SEO, so I didn't have the tools configured.