Comments on: Google’s Christmas Present – Ouch

By: What should you do if your Google Ranking Falls and you lose all your traffic?

What should you do if your Google Ranking Falls and you lose all your traffic? — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 21:58:58 +0000

[...] Firstly – I feel your pain Suffering a major fall in traffic as a result of Google changing their ranking algorithm is not a pleasant thing and when you dig around a little you’ll find that most experienced webmasters have experienced it at one time or another. The first time it happened to me my traffic (and income) plummeted to a third of what it was in December of 2004. It hit me hard and almost knocked me out of blogging for money. [...]

By: techzilla

techzilla — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 18:31:38 +0000

honestly i am feeliin good about search.msn as well, and if ther was a “customizemsn” firefox extention i would switch homepages today.

and i also share this equally suspicious notion about M$
…
what can i say all my pages are indexed at msn (and im first page for my topics)

google??? im there but you would never find me….(and its not like anything you would find actually had similar content)

By: : Blog Tips at ProBlogger

: Blog Tips at ProBlogger — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 11:30:53 +0000

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By: Jeremy C. Wright

Jeremy C. Wright — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I hadn’t checked my stats, but yeah, yesterday’s traffic was 50% of normal. Pathetic.

Looking into why now.

By: Refrozen

Refrozen — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Yeah, it effected me MAJORLY, but for a slightly different reason, I made a bad choice (well, an unlucky one).

I started to rewrite my site (http://www.refrozen.com) JUST AS GOOGLE DECIDED TO START GOING CRAZY, meaning I had no content online, 90% of the links to me were temporarily broken and all… Needless to say, I get no traffic from Google any more…

Honestly, I am getting sick of Google, they have too much of a monopoly allowing them to do whatever they want. This is not good, this is like the Microsoft of search-engines.

I am really liking MSN’s new search engine though (beta.search.msn.com I think) it seems to base the rankings a lot on content and quality of content, as long as they can do something about the ease of content spamming, MSN will be a far better engine then Google

Unfortunately, google already has the monopoly, and that’ll be hard to break, but Microsoft is in the position to do it.

(Note, I actually hate Microsoft, but Google is killing me… thus.)

By: Refrozen

Refrozen — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Also, I might add, I plan on starting a ‘few’ blogs, on various subjects across multiple domains. I figure, if I can earn 10$ / week off each one, and, I can update 3 a day (means I run 3 – I have the time :-P), that’s 120$ a month which’ll allow me to pay for my dedicated server out of my advertising budget instead of my pocket (Refrozen is making me next to no money YET).

By: Refrozen

Refrozen — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

By: Michael Moncur

Michael Moncur — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Speaking as someone who has been running Web sites for over 10 years, two things are clear:

1. Don’t draw any conclusions about a Google update until it’s completely finished. (There’s some question at this point whether they ever finish an update, but that’s another story.)

2. Expect a huge drop in traffic a week before and after Christmas. Always. Regardless of the site. While we die-hards are online every day, the casual users who don’t necessarily spend time each day online generally find better things to do at this time of year.

So, I’d relax and hope for the best. (Still working on the ‘relax’ part myself.)

Having said that, your advice on diversifying is spot on. Having a majority of eggs in one basket is never a good idea.