Something happened the weekend before thanksgiving, Nov 17; a Google
algorithm change of some sort that once again took away about a third of
our search traffic (it was reported here).
This comes on the heels of a first ‘Panda update’ at the end of June
which took a third of our search traffic then, and which I wrote about here
at the time. Needless to say, this has been a blow to the site on many
levels, including its very financial viability. For the past six months I
have been taking steps to ‘recover’ from Panda; I see now that this is
not going to happen.
The question I really want to know now is: why does Google hate this
site? Why did their data refresh or update have a negative, rather than a
positive effect on us?. I like this site. I really do, and I would like
it even if I were not the one putting it out. I enjoy publishing this
site; it is my full time job, it takes a long time to write and to
research, and the content is thoughtful and well written. So why does
this giant corporation keep punishing us?
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