My traffic has plummeted over the last week or so, mainly due to Google re-indexing my blog and dropping the rankings for each of my blog posts, maybe it'll correct itself maybe not.
It's tough coming from 1000 page views a day to a couple hundred if I'm lucky, but hey, it just means I'll have to change my ways or come up with some better stuff for y'all.
What I think caused it is I'm a huge social bookmarking junkie, the only problem is I'm not to social when using services like Digg and Propeller. As a result I feel the link juice that was passed on from my submissions to those sites no longer cuts it with Google and my blogs rankings have dropped
Or it could have been the change to the layout.
Just have to wait and see what happens, though what I've learned from this is to not put all my eggs into one basket, diversify my traffic sources and to try and not force it, if it's link worthy content, it'll happen naturally.
And that's the thing, what you find here on this blog can also be found on many other blogs, so expect to see loads more original content on MPL along with the best paranormal videos and news I come across.
Hey, I'm reading you, and that counts for something! Keep writing.
ReplyDeleteBummer... we are all vulnerable at some point. You are good at what you do so your numbers will come back.
ReplyDeleteps-did you see my latest group discussion over at blogcatalog? I think you'll get a kick out of it...I thought it was funny :)
Cheers for that Rhea and Aura, just a bit of a shock with the time I put in and all.
ReplyDeleteLol, I think I've gone and done something hasty, I've just bought some hosting, lord knows what I'll do with it, it'll be paranormal related for sure. Now all I have to do is learn how to use the stuff.
I used to visit this blog on a regular basis, this is the first time ive been here for ages. Unless things improve I doubt I'll be back. You used to have some great ghost videos on here, now its just become UFO obsessed with adverts for stuff you dont want shoved in between. I used to really enjoy visiting this blog, but the quality of the content has just fallen away.
ReplyDeleteHi, anon, I appreciate your comment and I know what you mean, the quality and frequency of posting has declined. Mainly due to the upkeep of finding videos I think are the most interesting, to achieve that goal I used to watch about 50 videos a day just to find one good legit one.
ReplyDeleteAnd well, I fell behind that goal, it really just became to much.
Over the last few weeks I've been exploring ways to streamline the process so I don't burn myself out, hopefully it works out, if it does I'll be moving to another platform, most likely wordpress.
Well thanks for the comment, really needed to hear that on my end, we'll see what happens.