Anyone affected by the minor Google Panda Update yesterday?

[froggyboy604]

Yes, I only have 306 page views yesterday compared to my regular 700-1000 page views daily for one of my domains on most days. But, it seems to be recovering a bit today, or it is just a slow search day for me yesterday.

A lot of people on Webmaster world seem to be complaining about the new update.

http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/4374667.htm

I think it is time for me to focus "more" time on refferal traffic from Facebook, YouTube, forums, and other website instead of being stuck with search engines as my main Traffic and income from Adsense clicks via search engines, and write more articles on newer topics and current news with less competition compared to old topics which has a lot of competition like Firefox Web browser and Apple.

 

[MrJohn]

Re: Anyone affected by the minor Google Panda Update yesterd

Yes, I only have 306 page views yesterday compared to my regular 700-1000 page views daily for one of my domains on most days. But, it seems to be recovering a bit today, or it is just a slow search day for me yesterday.

A lot of people on Webmaster world seem to be complaining about the new update.

http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/4374667.htm

I think it is time for me to focus "more" time on refferal traffic from Facebook, YouTube, forums, and other website instead of being stuck with search engines as my main Traffic and income from Adsense clicks via search engines, and write more articles on newer topics and current news with less competition compared to old topics which has a lot of competition like Firefox Web browser and Apple.

I agree with you Froggy, you should always try and diversify your traffic as much as you can in order to manage traffic losses easier. But, search engines are always going to have the most traffic to offer consistently. The Panda update last night was rumored to put an emphasis on page speed, page quality, and backlink quality the most.

 

[froggyboy604]

Re: Anyone affected by the minor Google Panda Update yesterd

It seems that I'm getting more targeted visitors with the new Panda Update, and they stay on my site longer, and bounce less according to Google Analytics.

But, my search traffic is down 60%, and most of my keywords which rank high are long tail keywords like "install oracle vbox +ubuntu"

I'm surprised that http://technorati.com lost 73% of its Google search visibility since technorati is a pretty useful site for bloggers, and blog readers to find new posts to read.

I read online the major winners who got a lot of search traffic in this minor update are YouTube, Android.com , foxnews.com, wsj.com, hupages.com.

Link to Article : http://searchengineland.com/google-pand ... tube-95257

I guest this means I need to write more post about niche topics like "How to design a blog which looks good on a cell phone or smartphone" rather then generic topics like "how to design a blog", and use YouTube, blog commenting, word of mouth, forums and social networking groups to promote my websites.