Recently, a lot of websites have had a major problem affecting their flow of web visitors. As a result many sites reporting the number of visitors to collapse to 1/4 than before. The3dtechnologies it seems that was been spared from this extermination, but for some reasons, a lot of bloggers have seen their site pages dropped in the latest position on the Google search engine. They will Condemned To Google hall? If so, getting out can be next to impossible. But, I think that it’s not the reason.
The consequence of these terrible days for many bloggers are very heavy: Adsense revenue missed and Web site traffic has been slashed to 1/3. The better part of traffic on the sites arrive through Google, and not from or links exchange or others resources like social bookmarks, are the very ones that bring the site on the main positions.
One example to consider is that of the famous site Masternewmedia.org. Robin Good has recounted her difficult situation when visitors went from about 15000/day to 3-4000/day in only one week. Incredible!
What is happened?
The reason(s) for which the sites was been penalized are yet unknowns. According to Masternewmedia.org, here some hypothesis :
1) Hidden text-I had an H1 title on the home page of Masternewmedia English edition as well as on the home pages of the other international editions(IT, ES, PT).
2) Hidden text-Ihad since the longest time a unique 5-digit numerical code hidden in every article page I publish.
3) Non-compliant Text Links-I did have several text link ads appearing on many pages of Master NewMedia as well as on some of my other sites. These are those small text only ads often appearing at botton of web pages or in other not very visible locations.
4) Giorgio Tave scouted on MasterNewMedia at least two instances of bad comment spam that had been sitting on some articles for over 2 years.
5) Alessandro Banchelli, former editor of Masternewmedia Italian edition reported also possible issues Google may have found when indexing our content.
Here the very latest updates, comment and thoughts over this Google penalization story you can not miss.
My thoughts
Instead, the new discoveries I made have to give to me this probable solution. The reasons are when they have been receiving the following error for their sitemap: network unreachable: robot.txt unreachable. Google has banned many web pages for a unreachable as cause.
Network unreachable: I thought that is an Google error received when trying to get a URL. You server could have been unavailable when a bot was trying to visit, this would have the bot return an unavailable error code. We are getting mes. “like We were unable to verify your file due to a server timeout.” This may be caused by many reasons as DNS error or timeout.
Robot.txt unreachable:
Before Google checks the pages for your site, they check your robots.txt file to see they didn’t crawl any pages that you had roboted out. When you research using some term parts, and your site don’t comes up in the better search engines as Yahoo and Google, you get an Error 404 reports which show robots.txt not found.
“We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap. Please ensure your Sitemap follows our guidelines and can be accessed at the location you provided and then resubmit.”
The robots.txt instructions isn’t required. The robots.txt file is a set of instructions for visiting robots (spiders) that index the content of your web site pages. The file must reside in the root directory of your web. The URL path (web address) of your robots.txt file should look like this.
User-agent: *
The asterisk (*) or wildcard represents a special value and means any robot.
Disallow:
The Disallow: line without a / (forward slash) tells the robots that they can index the entire site.
Conclusion
Even if the traffic on the sites depends by Google, if you are depending on Google only for your traffic source or income source, you are risking your alone business. Sure, when you eliminate the majority of the visitors coming from search engines, you are wiping out your greatest potential to monetize your content, but you can also get a nice traffic by other sources. Here’s I’ve put some suggestion how to ensure your business services to share some of the true difficulties and risks that this new profession has in store before your traffic source or income stream dries up.
An alternative for not depend by the Google search engine, is that one to build an alternative traffic source from RSS subscribers, newsletters and other. Use matching service like Enzine Articles or go articles to increase your own traffic as I made. In addition you can you can use the social bookmarking sites such as 76newsalways.
I would love to hear you thoughts on this especially if you have any other possible explanations for what might explain the horrible results with the new Google dance.
