Personally I think we’ve all kinda shot ourselves in the foot by loading all our Eggs into Google. Webmaster Tools, Analytics, the list goes on for Google but have these freebies to help webmasters/affiliates really be Trojan horses? I’m starting to wonder.
I’ve got one site that held over 6K in uniques a month, with 1000’s of long tails which also had decent, useful information all but drop from page one of Google, to the point where it’s getting only 1.9K traffic a month now. What’s more frustrating are the sites which now hold the high serps in these key phrases. If I take a look around, most have no original content and are in a way glorified doorway pages for the likes of Spin Palace Group.
Especially bewildering as Google claim it’s cleaning these sites up. Yet they’re ranking far better than site which actually meet the so called “Google site recommendations”.
Cheers
Dave