How I Deal With Google Algorithm Updates

I have quite a few blogs and websites and I have plenty of experience with dealing with all sorts of fun updates from Google, just as all of you reading this have experienced too. I decided to write this hub to let you all know how I deal with Google updates and the motions that I tend to go through.

The first thing I usually do when I notice traffic to my blogs/sites and articles on Hubpages go way down is get upset and curse to myself. Usually the day starts off very good for me but then I log into my different accounts and check my stats and that is when I get quite disappointed because usually when traffic goes down across the board it means Google updated their algorithm again.

After I check my stats and realize that I have been hit by a Google update, I will research a few reputable sites to see if a Google update has occurred, and every single time I have experienced a major drop in traffic (when traffic drops on all my sites), I have been correct and a Google update has taken place.

Once I have confirmed that a Google update has taken place, I will usually write an article venting about it and then giving advice on how to deal with the Google update.

If you have read some of my articles here on Hubpages, then you know that I am a fan of using social media sites to get traffic to my sites/blogs and articles on sites such as Hubpages. I have always received a good amount of traffic from social media sites. However, Google updates do bother me because maybe like 20%-25% of my websites' traffic comes from Google. So when Google updates occur and I lose even 10% of my traffic, it is a little annoying and it means that I have to work a little more harder at getting traffic from social media sites.

I will then wait it out and eventually traffic to my sites, from Google, raises. It may take a few weeks but I have been able to recover from many Google updates simple by waiting.

However, while I am waiting I am putting effort into promoting content on my sites and blogs via social media sites, so when I say I am waiting, I do not mean literally sitting there doing nothing but waiting for traffic from Google to pick up again. I mean I do not do anything to try to get in good with Google again.

Once I calm down and realize that there is little I can do, I simply expect another Google update.

Google updates are not fun to deal with but it seems that they will always occur, but if there is a will there is a way.

Good luck hubbers.