My USA travel website today crossed 1,00,000 pageviews (per month) with around 2000 visitors per day. Now this was a fairly new site for me, I started work on the domain in just Nov last year and by Dec, I had 220 visitors coming daily to the website.
This is what I did to get more visitors in just 5 months:
1. In early January, I decided to work on the content. I took to writing and adding new content to the site on a daily basis.
2. For new content, I used wikipedia and 3-4 other sites on that topic. Then re-wrote all in my own words and created unique articles. (more…)
The SEO experts all over the web have been battering their gums about the massive effects that update has made to rankings and pointing to all sorts of dramatic changes that they feel have been made to the algorithm.
The sites that are being badly affected have been using techniques such as:
• Doorway pages
• Hidden text
• Multiple domains
• Buying links
• Accepting off-focus reciprocal links from other sites
• Working with link farms and link exchange schemes
• Using various cloaking techniques
• Using duplicate content on different domain names
If your rankings on Google fell over the last month, you website has probably been affected by this ranking algorithm change.
Change in the Google ranking algorithm
Google wants to make its search engine results pages more relevant by removing some of the spam. It seems that the following elements are the most common reasons if your Google rankings dropped:
• hidden text on your web pages (especially text that is hidden in invisible CSS layers)
• paid links or other links that are considered outside of Google’s quality guidelines
• overuse of internal links or anchor text as the sole source of optimization
What if website ranking have dropped? (more…)