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Starhugger -> RE: Blocking hotlinking and Google (5/3/2006 15:43:20)
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ORIGINAL: Reflect
Starhugger this would not effect Google, maybe Froogle as it uses your images.
No, there's no way all that traffic was just images. Although it's funny that I could never figure out what keywords I was getting Google traffic from. Whenever I'd take a stab at sample searches (like using keywords showing up in my stats), I'd rarely come up in the first several pages in Google. So either I was getting off-the-beaten-track keywords, or I was getting very persistent users who didn't like whoever was listed before me in the search results.
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Can you post the hotlinking snippet you inserted just for review, maybe something is going on in there?
[:o] Oh no...I can't believe I didn't keep a backup of the code... (smacking self upside head) I just took a look through old threads about .htaccess that I had posted in the last couple of months and thought I would find it all there, but I must have pieced it together from various sources. Blast, now I'll have to figure it out from scratch again...
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However I would Google (no pun intended) for "Bid Daddy+google". This was a change that took place during that time period. Here is what Matt Cutts had to say...
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/bigdaddy/
On other forums I have heard some major grumbling.
So, if I understand this... Google (and other SEs??) are now relying (or starting to rely) on a central data center that provides information about sites on the net? Kind of like the news agencies like Reuters or AP? That would give them an AWFUL lot of power.
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Also Page Rank got an update around that time period. While PR is not the whole picture that can account for a drop in Google IMHO. ... Not to add to your confusion. I would start looking at your sites PR to see if it has dropped. From there look into your htaccess file for syntax errors. Then research Big Daddy changes.
You know that's interesting you say that. I thought I had recently seen a drop in my PRs but since I was a bad girl and didn't record previous changes, I wasn't sure if my memory was playing tricks on me. But I'm sure all my pages were a PR3 and now suddenly many of them are a PR2, including my heaviest traffic pages which I find weird. But as traffic doesn't seem to affect PR, I guess they don't really care about that.
With the sudden spike over the last few months in G traffic, I was expecting a jump in PR to 4 or 5. Now it seems to have done an about-face.
<whine>Sigh... You know, I have worked my guts out to create a quality website, and I see so much crud out there (on the same topic) that seem to have a much higher PR, probably only because they've been around much longer than I have. There are some great sites out there, but also many sites that seem to only be "link farms" and pay-for-service sites that offer little or no real content to the viewer. So it's very disheartening when I see my status sliding back again after I've worked so hard. [:(] </whine>
Thanks for replying Brian. It sounds like my .htaccess fiddling was a coincidence with my traffic drop. Interestingly, my Yahoo traffic remains high (so far), and it took even longer for Yahoo to take me seriously. Keeping my fingers crossed that Yahoo doesn't take its lead from the Big G.
Starhugger
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