Friday, February 3, 2012

Google state they expect that 12% of websites


I’m not sure if they mean 12% will be impacted in a negative way or the 12% also includes those who gain from the new change.
You see…I’ve been looking at my visitor stats and I believe my site has been impacted in a POSITIVE way.
If the positive impact is not due to the algorithm change then it is a big coincidence!
Since the Google algorithm has been updated I’ve experienced an 18.74% increase in the number of visitors to my site. That 18.74% increase is in comparison to the number of visitors I had in the month before leading up to the algorithm change.
And when comparing the stats where visitors come to my site direct from a Google search the number has increased by 30.15%. That means 30% more people are now finding my site via the Google search engine.
Is that because all the ‘bad boy’ sites that copy content have fallen down the search engine rankings and mine has gone up?
I like to think so and for me, it is too much of a coincidence.
Why has WeBuildYourBlog benefited from the algorithm change?
I think this because of a number of reasons.