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Due to some personal obligations, I had to make a break in posting to my main adult blog in January. I didn’t post anything new between January 11th and January 27th.. which is about three weeks. During that time my traffic was steady and pretty good, and remained so until the beginning of this week when I saw some decline. I also notice that Google’s cache shows a rather old cached page for my home page (from Jan 15th).
Is it possible that Google somehow demoted my blog in its search algorithm and assigned it a lesser priority for its googlebot and frequency of caching? Usually I’d see even posts that are made today in google’s cache quite fast, and now the latest one is from January 15th….
Somehow I thought that a few weeks’ hiatus in posting wouldn’t change things significantly, but it seems it always has some effect. is there a way to tell Google to visit my blog more often as it’s now updated more often?
Another reason for a decline in traffic might be because I deactivated my Facebook fan page due to some hacking attempts… although I never saw much traffic coming from it (3-5 visitors per day).
A few years ago I realized that no matter how much I blogged or didn’t blog I got the same amount of traffic from Google. It was a little demoralizing, actually. I haven’t done the test recently.
I think I remember you saying that before… but I also remember you said that on those adult blogs where you didn’t post for several months there was a rather slow and steady decrease in traffic over several months, which you attributed to not posting regularly to those blogs.
all blogs from 6 February began a daily reduction of traffic from Google, some traffic from Google has decreased by 50%, I do not understand what’s going on
Do you have some warnings in Google webmasters tools? Or popups on your blogs?
@Ben,
Right, a decrease, but never a serious drop. A bit over a year ago (mid-December 2015) I completely stopped blogging on my adult website, discarded the database application I was using to blog with, and focused on writing new software (which is taking longer than expected, unfortunately, but that’s not surprising). So it’s an extreme case of what you’re talking about. Here’s what’s happened with my new visits from Google for the last year I blogged plus the year since I stopped. (And is only for traffic to the porn blog itself, not to the home page or to my sex blog).
i.imgur.com/CZhzTE3.jpg
Notice traffic was going down even before I stopped blogging. In 2015 I varied from doing a few blog posts per week to a few per month, but I never completely stopped. Despite keeping the blog active I dropped from 10,000 new visits per week early in the year to 5,800 per week by the end of the year. Since then it’s sorta kept steady. It has gone as low as 4,200 per week but also gone as high as 7,000 per week.
Which is why I say how much traffic a blog gets from Google has nothing to do with how much you blog.
I will eventually (hire someone to) do more blogging, but I’m not in a rush since things are stable and I’m not convinced it would significantly alter how much traffic I get. When I do get back to blogging I’ll probably just do “best of” sort of scenes.
I have quite a lot of “abandoned” blogs and looking at the statistics, it looks like there is no standard way for Google to handle or penalize abandoned blogs. Some blogs started to lose a lot of Google traffic after 3 months of inactivity, while some blogs keep receiving steady traffic from Google even after more than a year.
There are even some blogs which lost quite a lot of Google traffic shortly after I have stopped blogging and then started to gain more traffic more than a year later.
I have stopped updating one site in April 2012… the traffic from Google almost stopped around November 2014, then it got a huge spike in traffic between January and March 2015. The same happened again in November 2016 and it’s still going on.
My old adult blogs continue to make money, so I’ll just keep renewing the domains even though I’m pretty sure I will never touch them again.
I guess if you stick to daily updates for the coming weeks, the traffic will pick up again.
From my experience, there seems to be a gradual decline for most blogs when they become dormant. It makes sense that if Google is crawling and sees nothing new happening, there’s less reason to check back as frequently as they might have been. If Google usually crawls your site every couple of days, it will start reducing that rate and use those resources on other sites with regular updates.
The uniqueness of your content also plays a role in traffic to a dormant blog. If you have posts with subjects very few others are working with you’re still going to get the traffic for those posts for the foreseeable future regardless of your update schedule.
Then you have the traffic you might usually get from those searching for a specific new scene. Depending how your site is viewed in Google (it would be more obvious if you’re an authority, a major blog) if you usually get a good share of traffic for people searching for info on a new video from the adult paysite or something you’ll obviously be loosing out on those hits too.
In my opinion, it all depends on your blog and the various factors. I would aim for keeping the crawl schedule consistent. For dead blogs you’re not doing anything with, I would check which posts/pages are getting the most attention from Google and work on those to keep them relevant and maximize their opportunity to earn (like linking through to other popular content).
What do you guys think about taking older posts and edit to publish on a future date? I’m talking posts over 2 years old, company still in business so the material would be there for any new member… I’m just not sure how Google would see it since the first post will seem deleted. Or at least I think that’s how it works.
Last year we were working on standardising our post format for older content and we only saw improvements in traffic.
We would focus on all posts for one sponsor, going right back to the start, adding alt tags, improving text, standardizing the layout, and in many cases adding new links or removing some when there were too many.
We didn’t republish all of them, but when we did we saw improvements in traffic.
We added a note to the top of the posts informing the reader that it was republished for popularity or relevance.We did make a point of starting this with “dead” posts, those not getting any real love, so they wouldn’t be particularly missed. But, eventually, we moved on to more popular content without seeing any decline at all.
