Google new algorythm or "no traffic from low-density keywords"

Hi everyone,

I want to hear your opinions upon this new feature of google.
To better understand what i am meaning take a look:

Webistes loosing traffic:

Digg
del.icio.us
Reddit

You can eaasily find more social based websites on alexa, which loose traffic rapidly.

Meybe traffic is already there?:
BigFishGames
PlayFirst
RealArcade


I have two suggestions:
1. Google starts ignoring user generated content(i mean comments like "+1", "i bet 50$ more", "where is my soup?")
2. It is because of summer. - many people have vacations.

 

IMO, the answer is more likely the first one. If I design a search engine, I also will send my user to real content site.

 

Wouldn't discard this one either. Traffic and revenues are always lower during the summer, except for a few specific niches (travelling, university admissions, etc)

 

yeah ... i heard it last year too that in summer google tries its various features...but thought it might be just boring news

 

Revenues over summer can reduce, I like Christmas or other key holidays!

 

Could not agree more. Those sites are made for users who will log on and find topics of interest for themselves. When a user searches for something through an engine, is it not logical to send them to the source?

 

in last 7 days i lost 30% of my google traffic to my site http://www.paramegsoft.com/ i lost many keywords positions

i think google make new algorythm or google is update something and not finish it

 

I think the drop in alexa stats for those first three sites got something to do with the release of firefox 3, probably alexa's toolbar doesn't like ff3 or maybe it's other way around. I noticed the same drop in alexa's stats for my sites although according to google analytics the traffic actually went up in the past month.

 

Do you have stats for ff3 usage? I can hardly believe that ff3 could cause such fall for digg, stumble, reddit etc...
I can agree that alexa had problems somewhere, but it is not ff3 IMHO.

Does anybody know some analogues of alexa stats?

Somebody said that he lost much traffic recently from google and lost keyword positions. It is not because of ff3, but anyway can be because of any another reason.

 

just because sparky doesn't work with FF3, you wouldn't see a big drop in alexa.
a lot more people use IE then FF anyway.

those sites, i would say a vast majority are kids-young adults.
what do young people do during the summer?well, it's not spending all day on the computer.

 

that is really strange... but I guess that is because of summer.

 

Some people facing this have noticed strange visits from google:

OrgName: Google Inc.
OrgID: GOGL
Address: 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
City: Mountain View
StateProv: CA
PostalCode: 94043
Country: US
66.249.64.0 - 66.249.95.255
CIDR: 66.249.64.0/19
NetName: GOOGLE

Any opnions what could be this?

 

and also some strange queries:

site:68.my1.com forum
site:68.my1.com forum
site:68.my1.com 28-1-0-204
site:68.my1.com photo
site:68.my1.com 34-1-0-253
site:68.my1.com 1

 

i woulldnt think google would sniff its nose up auser generated content thats what web2.0 is about user generated content!

i would put it down the be summer holidays

 

I wouldn't bother with the speculation, wait till Google does a press release on its SE algorythm update.

If a lot of sites have suddenly been losing traffic though I would suggest it would be Google finally implimenting their RSS update which gives traffic to the original source of the RSS feed rather than higher PR sites which are more or less just stealing the content.

I personally have seen an increase in traffic recently!

 

my sites have lost some traffic recently... i wouldnt worry about it, you will be back!

 

a whois of google!!!

they advertise with yahoo.

i'm getting lost with what this thread is about.