Proposal: What if We Started Flagging Non-SPAM Threads (Posts)?

"John Bokma" <john (AT) castleamber (DOT) com> wrote

"Jezsta Web Productions" <Please-use-our-contact-form (AT) jezsta (DOT) com> wrote:

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Do you have the same amount of pages indexed during the whole time?

I've made some changes and added some pages. No big ones, but overall I
didn't do more or less than normal, as far as I can recall.

Without knowing the whole scheme of things it would be hard to say.
Depending on which site of course there is a flux, and there is always
a slow down right after Christmas then it picks back up around Jan 15.
This might be what you have experienced.

It started well before Christmas. I can't recall ever to have a
significant drop (as in noticable) like this before.

Oh, well how about the pages indexed? Links inbound etc. These can be
factors in traffic dropping. Google has started treating some links
differently and like I said in the other thread, Yahoo really doesn't
consider links to much for top rankings.

Stacey

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"Jezsta Web Productions" <use-our-email-form (AT) jezsta (DOT) com> wrote:

"John Bokma" <john (AT) castleamber (DOT) com> wrote in message

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It started well before Christmas. I can't recall ever to have a
significant drop (as in noticable) like this before.

Oh, well how about the pages indexed? Links inbound etc.

I doubt that there have been any negative changes in those (pages indexed
went up, no doubt about it, ditto for ibls).

These can be
factors in traffic dropping. Google has started treating some links
differently and like I said in the other thread, Yahoo really doesn't
consider links to much for top rankings.

Only think I did: I added the addthis stuff (gives a bunch of icons to
bookmark, digg, flurl, etc the current page) on *every page*. After a few
months I noticed that the icons had been clicked on very little (maybe 40
times?). So I decided to remove it (somewhere in December?).

Visitors:

Jan 2008 13072
Dec 2007 12546
Nov 2007 16249 [1]
Oct 2007 14446
Sep 2007 14084
Aug 2007 13557
Jul 2007 14470
Jun 2007 14697
May 2007 15229
Apr 2007 15072
Mar 2007 14321


[1] Someone posted a link to my scorpion giving birth on Digg, which
caused 2 days a shit load of (mostly worthless IMO) traffic:

7 15721 3.22%
8 44588 9.15%
9 38007 7.80%
10 16204 3.32%

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"John Bokma" <john (AT) castleamber (DOT) com> wrote

"Jezsta Web Productions" <use-our-email-form (AT) jezsta (DOT) com> wrote:

"John Bokma" <john (AT) castleamber (DOT) com> wrote in message

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It started well before Christmas. I can't recall ever to have a
significant drop (as in noticable) like this before.

Oh, well how about the pages indexed? Links inbound etc.

I doubt that there have been any negative changes in those (pages indexed
went up, no doubt about it, ditto for ibls).

Ok, just asking.:-)

These can be
factors in traffic dropping. Google has started treating some links
differently and like I said in the other thread, Yahoo really doesn't
consider links to much for top rankings.

Only think I did: I added the addthis stuff (gives a bunch of icons to
bookmark, digg, flurl, etc the current page) on *every page*. After a few
months I noticed that the icons had been clicked on very little (maybe 40
times?). So I decided to remove it (somewhere in December?).

Well that change might have been the thing that changed your rankings cause
of a major navigation change. It can happen someitmes.

Visitors:

Jan 2008 13072
Dec 2007 12546
Nov 2007 16249 [1]
Oct 2007 14446
Sep 2007 14084
Aug 2007 13557
Jul 2007 14470
Jun 2007 14697
May 2007 15229
Apr 2007 15072
Mar 2007 14321


[1] Someone posted a link to my scorpion giving birth on Digg, which
caused 2 days a shit load of (mostly worthless IMO) traffic:

7 15721 3.22%
8 44588 9.15%
9 38007 7.80%
10 16204 3.32%

Phew yeah that can happen.

Stacey
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SEO Tips - Website Design - Marketing
http://jezsta.com/

"Jezsta Web Productions" <use-our-email-form (AT) jezsta (DOT) com> wrote:

"John Bokma" <john (AT) castleamber (DOT) com> wrote in message

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Well that change might have been the thing that changed your rankings
cause of a major navigation change. It can happen someitmes.

Yup, I am afraid that addthis.com adds an extremely small benefit at a
gigantic cost.

[1] Someone posted a link to my scorpion giving birth on Digg, which
caused 2 days a shit load of (mostly worthless IMO) traffic:

7 15721 3.22%
8 44588 9.15%
9 38007 7.80%
10 16204 3.32%

Phew yeah that can happen.

Yup. In the past I would have been bouncing up and down and be happy with
this, but based on my experience, digg traffic is worthless. Moreover,
there is always someone who copies (!) your photos to his/her site, and
posts a link to it in the comments. Oh, of course they do this because the
original site is slow...

OTOH, I got some ibls from other sites I take more serious, but I don't
need digg for that (IMO).

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On 1 Feb 2008 16:32:40 GMT, John Bokma <john (AT) castleamber (DOT) com> wrote:

"Jezsta Web Productions" <use-our-email-form (AT) jezsta (DOT) com> wrote:

"John Bokma" <john (AT) castleamber (DOT) com> wrote in message

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It started well before Christmas. I can't recall ever to have a
significant drop (as in noticable) like this before.

Oh, well how about the pages indexed? Links inbound etc.

I doubt that there have been any negative changes in those (pages indexed
went up, no doubt about it, ditto for ibls).

These can be
factors in traffic dropping. Google has started treating some links
differently and like I said in the other thread, Yahoo really doesn't
consider links to much for top rankings.

Only think I did: I added the addthis stuff (gives a bunch of icons to
bookmark, digg, flurl, etc the current page) on *every page*. After a few
months I noticed that the icons had been clicked on very little (maybe 40
times?). So I decided to remove it (somewhere in December?).

Visitors:

Jan 2008 13072
Dec 2007 12546
Nov 2007 16249 [1]
Oct 2007 14446
Sep 2007 14084
Aug 2007 13557
Jul 2007 14470
Jun 2007 14697
May 2007 15229
Apr 2007 15072
Mar 2007 14321


[1] Someone posted a link to my scorpion giving birth on Digg, which
caused 2 days a shit load of (mostly worthless IMO) traffic:

7 15721 3.22%
8 44588 9.15%
9 38007 7.80%
10 16204 3.32%

Scorpion birthing, huh? You get the impression that over at Digg, many
people don't have lives.

BB
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On 1 Feb 2008 17:07:52 GMT, John Bokma <john (AT) castleamber (DOT) com> wrote:

"Jezsta Web Productions" <use-our-email-form (AT) jezsta (DOT) com> wrote:

"John Bokma" <john (AT) castleamber (DOT) com> wrote in message

[ on http://johnbokma.com/ ]

Well that change might have been the thing that changed your rankings
cause of a major navigation change. It can happen someitmes.

Yup, I am afraid that addthis.com adds an extremely small benefit at a
gigantic cost.

[1] Someone posted a link to my scorpion giving birth on Digg, which
caused 2 days a shit load of (mostly worthless IMO) traffic:

7 15721 3.22%
8 44588 9.15%
9 38007 7.80%
10 16204 3.32%

Phew yeah that can happen.

Yup. In the past I would have been bouncing up and down and be happy with
this, but based on my experience, digg traffic is worthless.

Tourists. Mass-hysterical based.

BB
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http://www.fat-odin.com/
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On 1 Feb 2008 17:07:52 GMT, John Bokma <john (AT) castleamber (DOT) com> wrote:

OTOH, I got some ibls from other sites I take more serious, but I don't
need digg for that (IMO).

Do you like frogs as well John ?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7219803.stm
May interest you.
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and that confidence can be modified and/or reversed by further observations and experimentation.
Science approaches truth, closer and closer, by hard dedicated work. Religion already has it all decided, and it's "in the book.
It's dogma, unchangeable, and unaffected by reality and whatever facts we come upon in the real world." -- James Randi

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Big Bill <bill (AT) kruse (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

Scorpion birthing, huh? You get the impression that over at Digg, many
people don't have lives.

Heh :-)

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Still Not The Goblin That's Gobbling <noone (AT) houstoncrafts (DOT) com> wrote:

On 1 Feb 2008 17:07:52 GMT, John Bokma <john (AT) castleamber (DOT) com> wrote:

OTOH, I got some ibls from other sites I take more serious, but I don't
need digg for that (IMO).

Do you like frogs as well John ?

I like nature, and if I would make a top 25, I am sure frogs would be on
them :-)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7219803.stm
May interest you.

Yes, it does, thanks!

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On 2 Feb 2008 03:25:02 GMT, John Bokma <john (AT) castleamber (DOT) com> wrote:

Still Not The Goblin That's Gobbling <noone (AT) houstoncrafts (DOT) com> wrote:

On 1 Feb 2008 17:07:52 GMT, John Bokma <john (AT) castleamber (DOT) com> wrote:

OTOH, I got some ibls from other sites I take more serious, but I don't
need digg for that (IMO).

Do you like frogs as well John ?

I like nature,

me too

and if I would make a top 25, I am sure frogs would be on
them :-)

and toads. I miss my childhood days of collecting snakes, lizards,
frog and toads.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7219803.stm
May interest you.

Yes, it does, thanks!

No problem. I had a feeling you were into frogs too.
plh
Paul
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and that confidence can be modified and/or reversed by further observations and experimentation.
Science approaches truth, closer and closer, by hard dedicated work. Religion already has it all decided, and it's "in the book.
It's dogma, unchangeable, and unaffected by reality and whatever facts we come upon in the real world." -- James Randi

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