Ta da!!!!!
www.popstarsplus.com is finally out of the Google SERP doghouse -- at least for now. Our numbers are not up to our all time high levels, but we are coming back gradually. Hooray for us!!!! Hopefully this celebration will not be short lived.
Anyway, using Alexa.com as my guide, I went checking other celebrity websites to see if their numbers were affected as well. Although not all were affected, there were a bunch that did see some type of traffic drop in January. There were a few that actually saw their numbers rise during this time period as well. I still have no clue what triggered Google's new algos to kill my site or to restore it to health, but for now we are happy!!!!
As I have stated in the past that we really dislike exchanging links with other sites, I am going to be adding sites this weekend for recipricols for a large site that I recently communicated with and another smaller site that I have been putting off for a few weeks, most because of the issues relating to Google. Google likes relevant links to your site, so, that is what I am going to give them.
For those of you that have celbrity sites that are kid freindly, do not forget about the upcoming Nickelodeon Awards. Its the biggest awards show for the tween and teen crowd. Justin Timberlake is hosting, and a a lot of the young stars will be honored, performing and in the crowd.
Speaking about sites for young people, if you like role playing card games and animated TV shows, check out the new Chaotic game by 4Kids. We created a sister site www.ChaoticGamePlus.com specially for this game/program. The TV show is now airing, but the game is forthcoming in May.
Until next time . . . .
Ian Ripley
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Monday, March 05, 2007
I should have posted about the Academy Awards
Sorry, once again, I have not posted in a while.
Yeah, I stayed up and watched the Academy Awards as did many of you. If you have a celebrity website, it only pays to make sure that you at least mentioned the awards - especially if you have any of the actors/actresses that were nominated (or won).
I was not thrilled with the winners. I saw "The Departed" and was not completely thrilled with it. It was not even Scorcese's best film - but he finally recieved his overdue award for Best Director. There was some very good acting by some great actors, but not Academy Award winning performances. Forest Whitaker and Helen Mirren were excellent and well deserving choices. I did not see Little Miss Sunshine, so I cannot really comment on the supporting actor award, but I heard Alan Arkin was very good. However, Jennifer Hudson was not the best choice in her category. Not that the past American Idol contestant is a bad actress, but still not up-to-par with others in the category (but I guess the Association had to give "Dreamgirls" at least one of the major awards).
The award ceremony was not very exciting this year and could have been half as long.
Anyway, the reason why I have not been posting is because I have been spending so much time trying to work on issues with Google and the "950 Penalty." It comes, it goes, it comes, it goes. Now, besides the penalty, at least one of my pages - Jordan Pruitt at http://www.popstarsplus.com/music_jordanpruitt.htm has been pushed into the supplementals.
This blog had begun as a site to help other celebrity webowners with their own sites based on my sucesses. Next, it began to be my own personal complaint forum regarding how to get a site indexed. Then over the past two months, it has become a site about me complaining about Google changing their algo and killing me in the Serps (Search Engine Result Page). With a sided flavor of supplementals. Is there any rest for the weary? I just want to go back to creating a website that visitors will like. Instead, I have been spending half of my time worrying about SEO. Which, by the way, is exactly what the "officials" at Google say you should not do. If you create a good user freindly website with good content, you should be fine (they say). I did, now I am getting killed for it. Thank goodness I have a large number of returning visitors or else I would be sunk right now. My toal visitor ship is down by half of what it was in December. My numbers are almost going back to what they were a year ago.
What to do now?
Until next time . . . .
Ian Ripley
Yeah, I stayed up and watched the Academy Awards as did many of you. If you have a celebrity website, it only pays to make sure that you at least mentioned the awards - especially if you have any of the actors/actresses that were nominated (or won).
I was not thrilled with the winners. I saw "The Departed" and was not completely thrilled with it. It was not even Scorcese's best film - but he finally recieved his overdue award for Best Director. There was some very good acting by some great actors, but not Academy Award winning performances. Forest Whitaker and Helen Mirren were excellent and well deserving choices. I did not see Little Miss Sunshine, so I cannot really comment on the supporting actor award, but I heard Alan Arkin was very good. However, Jennifer Hudson was not the best choice in her category. Not that the past American Idol contestant is a bad actress, but still not up-to-par with others in the category (but I guess the Association had to give "Dreamgirls" at least one of the major awards).
The award ceremony was not very exciting this year and could have been half as long.
Anyway, the reason why I have not been posting is because I have been spending so much time trying to work on issues with Google and the "950 Penalty." It comes, it goes, it comes, it goes. Now, besides the penalty, at least one of my pages - Jordan Pruitt at http://www.popstarsplus.com/music_jordanpruitt.htm has been pushed into the supplementals.
This blog had begun as a site to help other celebrity webowners with their own sites based on my sucesses. Next, it began to be my own personal complaint forum regarding how to get a site indexed. Then over the past two months, it has become a site about me complaining about Google changing their algo and killing me in the Serps (Search Engine Result Page). With a sided flavor of supplementals. Is there any rest for the weary? I just want to go back to creating a website that visitors will like. Instead, I have been spending half of my time worrying about SEO. Which, by the way, is exactly what the "officials" at Google say you should not do. If you create a good user freindly website with good content, you should be fine (they say). I did, now I am getting killed for it. Thank goodness I have a large number of returning visitors or else I would be sunk right now. My toal visitor ship is down by half of what it was in December. My numbers are almost going back to what they were a year ago.
What to do now?
Until next time . . . .
Ian Ripley
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