Is Google Still your Main Traffic Source After the Big Update?

Lets be honest. None of the updates in the last two years has been about anything that Google didn't warn about FOR YEARS. It was well known Google would be looking more and more at links in content on high authority pages. Marketers determined that they wanted link spam tools instead blasting links all over people's property in blog comments, profiles, angela backlinks, etc and they kept saying "well it still works so I am doing it".

If state troopers keep telling you 90 Mph is not an acceptable speed you can hardly cry that they ruined your life when they finally pull you over.

Hmmm that is strange. My sites did not experience a decline. One had a modest bump.

Zilch !!

Many years ago when I was young and dumb I tried so hard to make Google fall in love with me.I put on my sexiest wife beater and skin tight jeans. The Big G lusted for me and had its way with me for a little while.

But then inexplicably almost overnight Mr. G got tired of me and he discarded me like a piece of trash . Leaving me naked out in the cold.

Thats when I vowed to never try to be seduced by Mr. G again and went on to greener pastures



Robert Andrew

There is lots of issues when it comes to marketing on Google so many tied policies.

There of people that got hammer by Google but because most
of them have been abuse the search engines It's not a great idea
to still depend on Google traffic where there are other good free and paid
services that can bring in the traffic your website needed if constructed
well. After the updates I really don't depend on Google for traffic the only thing I do is to
ensure my websites are SEO optimized just for search purposes but
I don't depend on them for traffic.

After every updates, there will always websites ranking higher and lower, even some of them disappear, what we should do is finding which sites has good authority to stand on it and profit from the change.

Ten years ago, Google was over 50% of my traffic. Today it's less than 1% and that's by design. Yet, my traffic continues to go up. Google updates are virtually meaningless to me now. Every new business venture I start starts off with a promotional plan that doesn't include Google.

Google is investing a ton of money on research & development to get itself into other markets because even they know that the search engine model is not going to be around forever, at least not in it's current state.

RoD

Google isn't a big source of traffic for me and I wasn't even aware there was an update.

I just checked my old Adsense and Amazon sites that have been plugging along making me a couple hundred dollars a year since I put them up and they're not doing so hot traffic-wise, but they're such an insignificant part of my income that it isn't going to hurt me. I haven't touched them in years and the only reason I haven't let them expire is because they've been making enough money to cover the cost of hosting and domain renewals for all of my sites with a little left over.

I stopped relying on Google and moved over to paid traffic a long time ago. Sure, it costs money, but I spend a lot less time worrying about what Google is up to these days.

My main source from some of my websites is social media i am getting a ton of traffic daily from pintrest, twitter and facebook

ive never written google off because you can get an atronomical amount of traffic if you get on the first page

nowadays i just concentrate on paid adverising and social media because worrying what google is doing is just a major hassle, and its always most always the quality websites that get kicked in the bollocks by google, how long have we had to "change this! "do that" " dont do this" and so on to accomadate googles guidelines, they are not the be all and end all and their are many ways to source traffic for your site/product besides google

at the end of the day, its google's way or the higway no matter what we do, i get quite alot of traffic from bing for doing very little, so their is life beyond the big g but never desert them or disreguard them

Bertie

What big update? Where is this randomness coming from anyways?

Panda, Penguin? Pfft, who cares.

Mike pretty much nailed it in his first reply in the thread.

Organic generates 24% of traffic as a channel, Google have 2,000% efficiency, it's a compounding effect - that compounding is now going above 200% which is where most small business methods start to fail - corporates run at 1,000%. Everyone here has a turn when we say there are ways to slow the effect - we neutralise it but that just confuses everyone. So Google is one of the channels, but a very important one.

Google is still king when it comes to making money very quickly online.

I have had one website that hit the first page of Google and that website
started to immediately generate $500 per day in commissions.

It was for a keyword the cost $18 a click on google adwords

A lot a buyers start their search on Google.

Only use Google to add a website to there database.

This will make your website be seen from the Google database where searched,

know go and study social media trends.

Find all the well known social hangouts and post your posts to direct to your website sitting on the Google database.

This way your using goggle as the website holder, and using traffic from social media websites with your niche to earn hits= money.

That all it is, getting hits to convert into money, via targeting social websites and pointing to your website .

The truth is the hard work has been done for everybody, Internet marketers can earn millions with already made social websites that are high in Google database, you can abuse this and start using socal media websites and work out what ppl are doing to get traffic in your niche, and point that traffic to your website and convert that traffic into cash.

unfortunately the good old days getting Google to get you high in the Google database is all over , it can be done but takes such a long time and can be pulled down anytime with all the Google changes just scares the hell out of me and other ppl.

Google wants grate content and that content to be 99% perfect and truthful, and in the future proven fact from the person who writes it.

eventually anything added to a web page added to goggle will want full authentication on whats added to that page.

pictures.
content
domain names

seo optimization in the end will be a rich mans/woman world unfortunately where it all paid for in the end, Internet marketers have got to relies that the only way forward is to use the already made social websites and new trends what come out daily/weekly/monthly/yearly there is no easy slap a web page up and earn money fast any more.


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regards john....
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Google has bought out a lot of competition. My take on it is that the competition is in all a slap for Google. They don't want anyone else to take their spot light so if someone comes with a bad ass model that can beat them, they will buy them out. I don't know why so much people are surprised by this.. Its actually a smart option to buy out your competitors...

With the latest Google updates, a lot of websites which are spammy and dont focus on content marketing activities are being wiped off in terms of traffic as well as ranking. So, the ultimate goal of Google is to focus more on content marketing activities..

Google is still the main source of traffic for almost everyone! Tho, that 8% traffic we can get from Y/B are valuable.