Re: traffic drops on websites

**"* R* B* <k*@gardendesigninc.com>**

Doug and Lois:

I went to see "Men in Black III" after the GWA Region II meeting.  I think
that the subject of the movie goes a much longer way to explain the
happenings of the Internet than Doug's posting below.  At least, I thought
the movie was entertaining and by the end I understood what had happened.

But then again I've always considered Doug the only true Man in Black that I
know.  I think he just sprayed his neutralizer at us... :-)

Kirk 

>From the Man in Black...
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

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