Did Googles Algorithm Change Hit You or Help You?

Yesterday, Google made an algorithm change that has been talked about at great length. Like most of Google's changes, you can here plenty of people complaining about how badly they are being effected by the change and how SEO is dead because of it.

I just wanted to give everyone a chance to see if SEO is realy dead because of a change like this. In my opinion, SEO will never die. I just don't think that there will ever be a Search engine change that will make optimization impossible. As long as they try to rank sites, there will be stat geeks and testing guru's finding out what works and what doesn't.

For me, I have actually noticed an increase in traffic for the sites I have. I actually have had most of my larger content sites double in traffic. This result will not stay like this more than likely because the change just happened a day or two ago but the increase in my traffic was drastic.

One thing that I noticed, which seems to go opposite of the trend of complaints, is that my autoblog sites have also been gaining ground in the traffic arena.

I actually have an Authority autoblog that I built in November that has been climbing in traffic everytime there is a Google update.

So, what does that mean to you?

Well, it should mean that you don't have to believe that the sky is falling just because a few people are saying that they saw there traffic jump off a cliff. Autoblogs are supposed to be getting destroyed by Google but mine has jumped in traffic.

I want to encourage you to hang in there. Figure out what still works and still doesn't. If your sites get deindexed, figure out why, don't just give in because your frustrated. Try new things, even if your sites are deindexed you can still salvage them sometimes.

I have said this before but don't be a one trick pony. SEO is a great skill to have and you can really do well for yourself because of it but internet marketing is not about getting the best ranking in search engines. Internet Marketing is about making money and building a passive income business. SEO may be *FREE* traffic, in terms of dollars you spend, but you pay heavily in the amount of time you spend on SEO and the amount of money that you lose by not using some of the other types of traffic.

Keep building your SEO sites, test and re-test your data, and also build a list. While your testing your SEO, test a few paid traffic sources. They don't have to cost much so long as you know where to get traffic when you need it.

Don't do what I used to do, which is try to do what you think is the most convenient thing because you may think SEO is convenient because you don't have to spend money to get results but you really never know when a google change will come and wipe out half or all of your business. It happens all of the time.

The biggest point that I'm trying to make is that we are not SEO marketers, we are internet marketers. We are here to make money, not excuses, not to complain and not to blame others for our failed sites.

Keep your eye on the prize!