Being dumped by Google? Learn how to avoid becoming a victim next time around! (Part 1)
by:Per Strandberg
After Google latest update nicknamed “Florida”, many webmasters discovered that their traffic plummeted.
What happened?
More importantly what can you do about it?
And what will Google do next?
What happened was that Google made an algorithm change on how they rate web pages.
Every time you make a search, Google tries to show the most relevant web pages that match your search term. By being able to give the most relevant results for queries, they have become the most used search engine in the world.
In order to keep out competitors they have to constantly adjust and improve how they judge web pages.
Because this judgment is done automatically using software, many webmaster have been modifying their sites in order to improve their position in the search results. To do this they have exploited different shortcuts and loopholes made possible by shortcomings in the software algorithm.
