Has Google Changed it’s Search Algorithm?
In the 9 months since I began caring about getting my pages listed in search engines I haven’t had much success doing just that. I would consider myself an SEO genius, heck, I have a Michelle Wie News Blog that I write at a few times a week and that’s not even on the top 10 page results for google. I’m on page 12 or 13 or something.
This blogs referrals from Google fluctuates more than Google’s stock itself. I recently began to really think about how I can get my sites listed higher in Google search results and haven’t come up with a brilliant way to do so.
Sure I can do what every so-called “SEO expert” says to do which is develop more content and get quality links that mention the particular keyword in them. Frankly I think it’s a load of crap. I have about 20 links from just Michelle Wie sites that link to my page and I mention Michelle Wie’s name about 2-4 times and article, not too much, not too little.
Anyway, as I was searching my usual blogs to see what was new in the sphere I travel in I happened upon a neat little article over at osworld.biz related to pure AdSense sites getting lower and lower listings in Google thus resulting in less traffic and lower revenue. You can read about it at his AdSense derailed article.
It made me wonder if Google has been playing with their search results algorithm to combat all the sites that are made from freely available articles and are published strictly for the AdSense revenue. I’m not sure if it would make sense from a business model to reduce these pages traffic, especially if they’re producing high click-through rates, I mean it is Google that’s making the money off placing those sites higher.
Either way I’ll have to do more research but I thought it was interesting and helpful (since these AdSense site guys and gals are pretty secretive about how and what they do) for him to publish his latest AdSense earnings and trends, linked with results from Google Search.
Let me know if any of you know of a change to The Algorithm. I hope to just keep building a good base of useful content and good links and hopefully in a year this network will have some quality traffic.