anything new re:traffic?

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   Marye Audetposted 12 years ago

   I have been really sick... and in hospital and now home on bedrest so I have not kept up. Anything at all new on the Google front?

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      lobobrandonposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      If you know about the Penguin update, then there's nothing new after that as far as I know Others may have something to say though. Sad to hear, hope you get well and are back on your feet soon.

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      Purple Perlposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Get well soon,Marye! Listen to some soulful music to relax.

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         Marye Audetposted 12 years agoin reply to this

         Perhaps Google will change their name to Popper next

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   Dame Scribeposted 12 years ago

   I heard there will be more Penguin updates not sure what they are focusing upon with the next round though.

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   waynetposted 12 years ago

   I'm pretty sure the next update will be the full Google Zoo and then they'll start giving names to the Pandas and Penguins!

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      JKennyposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Cool idea, perhaps the next penguin update should be called Pingu or something.

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      KeithTaxposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      I think vulture is the next update name.

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   Greekgeekposted 12 years ago

   Google Knowledge Graph prelaunch.
   
   Remember my recent discussion about what Semantic Search means for content writers and how to avoid too much traffic loss? This is a form of semantic search, the kind of thing I was warning about.

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   PaulGoodman67posted 12 years ago

   Some more people have plunged.  A few have recovered.  General slide continues.
   
   Since the Panda and Penguin updates and Paul E's hubs and comments, the only real development has been the introduction of the Google Knowledge Graph which GG has mentioned.
   
   We are coming to that time of the month when they introduce new algo updates, so there might be some more turbulence soon... who knows?

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      PaulGoodman67posted 12 years agoin reply to this

      PS Sorry to hear you've been sick, Marye!

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         Aficionadaposted 12 years agoin reply to this

         Ditto that! I hope you're completely well and recuperated/-ing now.

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   Greekgeekposted 12 years ago

   Photos should pick up even more traffic thanks to the new Google related sear ch previews that were just announced.

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      jacharlessposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Indeed. I just wrote a web-software tool for photo optima.
      Unfortunately, unless HP sets up a better photo storage method, it won't do much for Hubbers. Each time you upload a photo, the name is changed to a short-code of s4.hubimg.com. It should have a unique name that corresponds with the Article Title.
      
      example:
      
      uploaded photo name: http://s4.hubimg.com/u/6550811_f248.jpg
      actual photo/title name: PHP Captcha Generator Script Tutorial
      
      zero photo optimization ability.
      
      James.

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         Greekgeekposted 12 years agoin reply to this

         Slight correction: there's about 20% photo optimization ability.
         
         The caption on a photo uploaded to Hubpages gets fed into the alt-name for that graphic. So you can still get the keywords in there, at least a little bit. Also, I've noticed that in Google image search, if you mouse over each image, it shows the title of the photo capsule and often quotes a few words from nearby text. I can't tell whether that's only for display -- something to help the searcher find out the image's context -- or whether image search is actually using that text as clues to identify the image, since the filename's not there.
         
         I agree that it is frustrating; optimizing images for traffic is one of my favorite ways to GET traffic. The caption kludge is imperfect because a caption is not the same as an alt-name. It''s a lot more text, and therefore makes it hard for image search to guess which words are what the picture actually is. But one can at least optimize that text.

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            jacharlessposted 12 years agoin reply to this

            Yes, you're right.
            
            The need for additional text kind of defeats the purpose -or at least stretches the gum as far as possible. My experience with Bing & Yahoo is named Images. So "PHP-Captcha-Script-Tutorial.jpg" or "chocolate-mousse.png" have a better overall appearance ratio than say DSC-0009HGNMOGKTEFFboghm[1].jpg with the added caption/alt/tags.
            
            Optimizing images is not easy without powerful scripting, because of the file type. But it can be done. I tested the modal on WP that returned considerably  more organic UV a day for a client. An non CMS return was just off the chart.
            
            But, all in all, the most important element of SEO for Photos is this:
            Use ALL the parameters to your advantage.
            Size
            Color
            Type
            Then apply the subject {tag/keywords}
            And then see the related/trending {referral} types in that image pool.
            
            James.

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   WriteAngledposted 12 years ago

   My traffic, which fell by 90% a week ago has now increased six-fold overnight. I'm not going to be regaining previous traffic on this site, because I have used this last episode as an alert call to move my best hubs over to my own dedicated web sites. However, I now seem to be able to look forward to the hubs left here becoming reactivated.

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      PaulGoodman67posted 12 years agoin reply to this

      That's interesting.  Maybe what you see as your "best", Google saw as your "worst" and removed the penalty when you moved them away?  Just speculating.

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