Re: traffic drops on websites

**D* G* <g*@gmail.com>**

Lois - they don't but it's a moving target out there right now.  Lots of
unsuspecting folks are getting whacked for things that were perfectly
acceptable a year ago.  Google has been trying to deal with Article-Spam
(Panda updates) and now with Link Spam (Penguin updates).  It's also things
like having sold a link, done reviews for money, or being on link exchanges
or any number of things that are now coming to light from Matt Cutts
(Google) and some other search-experts online.  As far as I can tell right
now - links from systems such as blog rolls are not really great and
getting paid for a link is death on wheels while natural link exchanges
from one bit of content to a related bit of content are good.  So if you
link to another blog article, that's good but if you spray out links
(particularly to low-value blogs) you're going to be penalized.  I don't
have a full picture of this yet - (who does?) :-)  and you've just hit the
sum total of what I can share at the moment.

And no - it ain't fair but then again who said it ever would be... ;-)

D

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 9:08 AM, <loisdan@juno.com> wrote:

> Thanks for this info, Doug. Really though, how does Google expect
> ordinary folks (not techies) to know that a blogroll would be a bad
> thing?
>
> Lois
>
> On Tue, 29 May 2012 07:37:43 -0400 Doug Green <gardeningemail@gmail.com>
> writes:
>  In case some of you have some
> > traffic
> > issues - Panda is about great content and Penguin is about
> > "problem"
> > linking (more or less)
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