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There was a resent discussion on the other forum about how sites with few updates are beating out site with daily updates since these new updates came out. I was looking today and I’m seeing the same thing in a lot of the results. Sites that haven’t been updated in months to even years at the top of the search results.
I have two adult blogs that are in the same niche. One I update almost daily and the other maybe once a week or less. In the last month the one I update less is now in front for many keywords. Has anyone else noticed this? Maybe they are seeing daily blog updates as being to spammy?
Before I opened my site, I put up a tour page that had some good written content on it. I put it up six months before the site even opened for business. And I didn’t update that page for six months. By the time we opened we were already number one for hairy women or hairy naked women, I don’t remember.
What I’m thinking might be happening is this:
Let’s say the non-updating page / site is really well written with right keywords and density and all of that. And if this is the case, it probably deserves the top-ranking spot.
Now let’s say another site is updating daily, but it’s basically just crap – non unique text, not enough text, etc. So the only thing it has going for it is that it updates a lot, but Google thinks the other page is still a better fit for whatever the surfer is looking for.
I also have another blog and I didn’t update it for 1.5 years, but it still held the number one spot for a good keyword phrase. But the blog contained all original written content.
It depends on the content – but it also depends on the competition.
Believe it or not, there are some keywords out there that affiliates either think are saturated and so do not bother with, or they simply neglect to use them. There are also plenty of affiliates who do not consider how a search might be done. For example, a blogger might go for “uncut twinks”, thinking it might be the best option, but then there might be thousands more searches for “uncut twink boys fucking”, and that longer phrase used exactly as is will do far more for the post than the original high-competition phrase.
There are a lot of things that I believe can affect traffic, from coding and themes to word count and originality of images. But from what I have seen with a couple of new blogs, Google does not penalize for frequent updates.
In fact I have seen the opposite. I am updating one of my new blogs several times daily and seeing the traffic rising, while others with far more content and no updates are slowly declining.
If you stop updating a site it will definitely suffer. But to keep it “alive” you probably don’t have to add a huge amount of content either as long as there are some updates. While on the other hand, I would think there is a possibility of a penalty if there are very large volumes of small posts/pages added every day, i.e. spam.
I’ve got a old site which is heavily optimized for Google. I’ve only ever allowed 50 pages to be indexed, nothing new is ever added. The only changes are some text listings on each page but the entire page itself stays the same and targets certain keywords. It means the site has no real updates, no new pages, nothing fresh for Google to index. This type of static site used to work 2 years ago, but now it’s fallen in the index and only recieve 1/4 of the traffic it used to. It’s not enough that you have optimized it for Google, even if you have lots of incoming links. A site also need to have regular new content added. At least that’s how I interpret what’s happened to it.
I probably should have clarified that I meant full content updates, not copy/paste or shallow posts. I know it might seem obvious that I would think that, but I do that on a couple of my growing blogs daily and it is most definitely working.
Having said that, one of my clients adds several posts a day of just images, no text beyond a title. He has just cut back to four full posts a week so if our ideas about post content are right he should see a decline in traffic. I think I will have to keep an eye on that and see if he has that happen.
No, 4 posts a week is still an active adult blog. The fact that more of the posts are “high quality” (they have meaningful text) means he may actually see more traffic.
What I mean is, he was adding image-only posts each day, and I was adding one full text and image post in the evenings per day. He is cutting the full posts I supply back to four per week, but as far as I know he is still adding the image posts every day.
So, the text content per week is declining, and the frequency of posting too. I think that will have to result in less traffic. The only way I can imagine his traffic being stable and constant is if he were to start writing one of those photo posts to replace the text I was adding each evening.
I can understand why he has chosen to change, he has some slightly “militant” visitors who want only celeb posts (which do not really bring in any revenue) so they jump on my posts and attack them at every opportunity, voting them down and leaving bitchy comments.
Still, I think it will harm traffic and sales. The better solution would have been to “hide” the porn posts from the militants with increased celeb posting.
I think the downturn in traffic (if there is any), won’t be as great as you might think. All his established pages will still get traffic. Where you might see less traffic is if there are fewer keywords being used. But because the the pages are more stable, they may have more authority and get more traffic that way (rather than through freshness).
But bottom line, I doubt there will be a big downturn in traffic.
