Since about 14th October I believe the traffic coming from the search engine has disappeared on my website and I barely get any visits and impressions now. It is a blog hosted at blogger with barely 26 posts, all of which are not just 60-70 words each. My goal on the blog is to publish information for a particular Android device. My intentions are not to promote someone's website and each hyperlink I create, I make it no-follow and the links are basically to websites such as mediafire, dev-host, and at the bottom a source link to xda-developers forums. I don't get it, what did I do to deserve this punishment from Google? There are no messages at the Webmaster Tools website such as for manual spam actions and so on. Anyone have any idea what could be wrong? I would also like to mention that the website does rank for a particular keyword, it comes as 7th result on first page. Now this confuses me even more.
Google likes the content, but not the short one. Try extending your posts with more than 300 words. Ask questions about the product and give honest answers, do not share just some information. Write for the audience and provoke them to like your content and share it.
Penguin 2.1 update was rolled out on 4th of October but it's widely assumed that these kind of rollouts have effects which can take several weeks to be reflected on all affected websites. Do you have any messages from Google within Webmaster Tools, and/or have you been building any links to your site in the past- if so, what types and with what % of anchor text variation? WebDev
I'll keep that in mind from now on, thanks. No messages from Google about anything. I'm basically left out just like that in the dark, supposed to figure out the cause myself. The only websites linking to my website according to the Webmaster Tools are YouTube, my other blog which I find very weird because it does not contain a single link to this website, and the rest are random websites such as phone sites in which some people have left a link or two to my blog. How do I figure out this % of anchor text variation? I'm sorry I don't really understand these things a lot.
have you checked analytics, may be your site was only getting traffic from a few keywords, which might have got outranked ?
I just checked and the keywords I was getting traffic from before 14th are now different compared to today's keywords. In that case, how would I restore my ranking? Is it by building quality backlinks? Are these backlinks built when big websites link to yours?
This sucks, now my other blog which has tons of quality content written from scratch by myself just got penalized and is gone from Google's search engine for the 3rd time, not sure if it will recover this time. Why do websites that have quality posts written suffer this, yet websites like APKMania that are all copy and paste content on every single post, get to rank #1 for a search result?
Such is the wrath of Google. I remember when I used to be angry about that. My advice; If you don't have a site that people come to with or without Google, expect Google to squash you for no good reason while the people who game the system burn and churn and profit. Start running a Burn and Churn operation while learning how to game the system or build something that doesn't rely on Google.
Having good and long content is very good for your website. Google likes that. Be sure you have articles that have atleast 300 words.
OP, are those blogs someone connected? I mean, could it be that Google figured out that they were run by the same person? As for the first blog you mentioned, it could be that it enjoyed a temporary boost from Google if it was a new site, but eventually went down, because there was nothing else to back up its popularity. I would also do a keyword rank check for the keywords your first site is getting impressions for and see who rank in top 10 now. It could be that you got outranked by some new or stronger websites .