| Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | Freefly | 9/7/11 4:45 AM | I have read the FAQs and checked for similar issues: YES My site's URL (web address) is: http://www.all-things-photography.com Description (including timeline of any changes made): Hi all, Up until Panda 1 in Feb, I was getting around 7,000 visito |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | luzie | 9/7/11 5:04 AM | I believe that user behaviour here is not what Google expects for a site of this kind: Relatively high bounce rate: 65% Relatively low time-on-site: 3 minutes Relatively few pageviews per visit: ~3 I've already said that a coup |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | luzie | 9/7/11 5:05 AM | (that was for the main site) |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | Freefly | 9/7/11 5:14 AM | Thanks for your quick reply Luzie, much appreciated. I have been thinking of adding interactive quizzes and a user gallery where people can upload their own images to keep them on the site longer...do you think those would help? As for the font size |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | Freefly | 9/7/11 5:20 AM | P.s. My bounce rate and time on site has been the same for 4 years... |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | WWWNooB | 9/7/11 5:27 AM | @Freefly Hi, First off let me congratulate you on a fine extensive website. I can easily understand why ppl would want to pirate your stuff. I was also drawn to stay and explore unfortunately for me that's not an option right now. As I read your |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | luzie | 9/7/11 5:27 AM | Well, it's just a theory, but me and others think that Google could have introduced new metrics (bounce rate among others) with the "Panda" update to assess sites by looking at user behaviour. |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | Freefly | 9/7/11 5:35 AM | Font size increased...thanks for the tip. |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | WWWNooB | 9/7/11 5:37 AM | @Freefly The browser cache issue is only one of the categories that could use improvement, it was just an example. There is debate on the bounce rate issue but I alway prefer to err on the side of caution. You would agree that slow rendering of yo |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | WWWNooB | 9/7/11 5:49 AM | If I may interject here for amoment. Just because something has been done a certain way over time, doesn't mean it should continue to be so. Panda was deployed to combat the status quo prevalent in the level of user experience on the internet. The |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | Freefly | 9/7/11 8:15 AM | @ luzie - "Well, it's just a theory, but me and others think that Google could have introduced new metrics (bounce rate among others) with the "Panda" update to assess sites by looking at user behaviour. I'd prefer the font size to be larger from the |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | Steven Lockey | 9/7/11 8:23 AM | Just remove the font tag, which isn't valid really anymore and use: <p style="text-align: justify; color: #990000;"> That brings it up to the latest spec, don't use <font> at all, there is no reason to use it at all anymore, thats what CSS is for. |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | Freefly | 9/7/11 9:14 AM | @ Steven Lockey - Many thanks to you for that, the html coding is clearly well out of date and I plan to go through every page yet again to update as you have suggested...where have I been the past few years! I need to update my knowledge of html and |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | WWWNooB | 9/7/11 11:17 AM | @Freefly Panda classification of sites is algorithmic so unless you received a notice from google of a manual penalty then, no you won't get notification of the changes. Two things will happen. The regular crawling of your site and the next Panda |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | Freefly | 9/7/11 2:15 PM | Excellent Abraham, many thanks for that! I feel as though the site is worth fighting for now so thanks to you and the others that have posted today, stars one and all! |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | Steven Lockey | 9/7/11 3:16 PM | I've noticed also that pages that focus well, rather than having more generic pages seem to perform far better as well. If you notice yourself straying from a subject on a page, make or link to a page about the other subject instead. Probably better |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | Freefly | 9/8/11 3:53 AM | How much attention should I pay to the WC3 Validator? Even Google, Yahoo and Facebook don't pass: http://validator.w3.org/unicorn/check?ucn_uri=www.google.com&ucn_task=conformance# http://validator.w3.org/unicorn/check?ucn_uri=www.yahoo.com&ucn_ta |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | boltsabre | 9/8/11 4:12 AM | You should pay attention to it.. it's not vastly important when compared to having 'targeted' headings, titles, descriptions, alt text on images, no broken links, etc, but yes, if you find you have a spare hour here or there then you should validate |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | WWWNooB | 9/8/11 4:18 AM | Many sites do pass. The examples you gave are already on top and have little to worry about from panda. Millions of quality links from everywhere. Anyway, the sites that you compete with are the ones you need to worry about. In order to pass them |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | boltsabre | 9/8/11 4:22 AM | Yeah, exactly, google may not validate but their home page is soooo simple in design that little can go wrong, FB will have analysed their stats to the 10th degree and know that 98% of its users use X, Y and Z browsers, and trust me, it will render j |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | WWWNooB | 9/8/11 4:24 AM | These should be enough to close the deal right here! All good observations, bolt |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | WWWNooB | 9/8/11 4:40 AM | @Freefly boltsbre touched on something that will maybe help clarify the advantages of attention to details. As a photographer, you check your f stop, you aperture, light meter, shutter speed, maybe filter required, proper lens for subject, film qua |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | Freefly | 9/8/11 8:30 AM | @ WWWNooB - "What did you think about the other stuff I mentioned? Any observations?" - As I said above, definitely, thanks: |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | boltsabre | 9/8/11 9:03 AM | No worries champ, I hope you have success, I know its a really hard business to succeed in (my father was a photographer, but that's another story), so good luck! Yeah, it's amazing how when you start to pay attention to all those 1% things how much |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | MikeMFWDes | 9/8/11 9:19 AM | Hi Freefly. Right now, you've got a difference of 3,800 pages, between instances of your domain. It appears, as a result ( consequence ) of all the changes you've made recently ( noted above in your post ), Google has not caught up to everything yo |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | MikeMFWDes | 9/8/11 9:30 AM | |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | Lysis | 9/8/11 9:38 AM | |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | Lysis | 9/8/11 9:42 AM | |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | MikeMFWDes | 9/8/11 10:55 AM | |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | Lysis | 9/8/11 10:59 AM | |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | luzie | 9/8/11 11:18 AM | |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | MikeMFWDes | 9/8/11 11:26 AM | |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | Lysis | 9/8/11 11:46 AM | |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | WWWNooB | 9/8/11 11:55 AM | |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | MikeMFWDes | 9/8/11 11:59 AM | |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | MikeMFWDes | 9/8/11 12:11 PM | |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | Lysis | 9/8/11 12:16 PM | |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | MikeMFWDes | 9/8/11 12:41 PM | |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | luzie | 9/8/11 12:45 PM | |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | Lysis | 9/8/11 12:45 PM | |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | luzie | 9/8/11 12:56 PM | |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | MikeMFWDes | 9/8/11 12:57 PM | |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | Lysis | 9/8/11 1:00 PM | |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | MikeMFWDes | 9/8/11 1:02 PM | |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | MikeMFWDes | 9/8/11 1:07 PM | |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | KORPG Kevin | 9/8/11 1:09 PM | |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | WWWNooB | 9/8/11 1:19 PM | |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | Lysis | 9/8/11 1:22 PM | |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | WWWNooB | 9/8/11 1:26 PM | |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | WWWNooB | 9/8/11 1:29 PM | |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | WWWNooB | 9/8/11 1:31 PM | |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | KORPG Kevin | 9/8/11 1:34 PM | |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | KORPG Kevin | 9/8/11 1:45 PM | |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | luzie | 9/8/11 3:07 PM | |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | luzie | 9/8/11 3:11 PM | |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | KORPG Kevin | 9/8/11 3:20 PM | |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | luzie | 9/8/11 3:27 PM | |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | MikeMFWDes | 9/8/11 3:39 PM | |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | luzie | 9/8/11 3:54 PM | |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | luzie | 9/8/11 3:57 PM | |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | luzie | 9/8/11 4:04 PM | |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | boltsabre | 9/9/11 7:05 AM | |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | Lysis | 9/9/11 7:08 AM | |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | boltsabre | 9/9/11 7:15 AM | |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | boltsabre | 9/9/11 7:16 AM | |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | KORPG Kevin | 9/9/11 7:24 AM | |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | boltsabre | 9/9/11 7:40 AM | |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | Freefly | 9/9/11 8:33 AM | |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | boltsabre | 9/9/11 9:53 AM | |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | Freefly | 9/9/11 12:57 PM | |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | Freefly | 9/10/11 2:22 AM | |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | WWWNooB | 9/10/11 5:45 PM | |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | shukla_vikas | 9/10/11 6:28 PM | |
| Re: Well Google, you win! My website is pretty much dead! | WWWNooB | 9/10/11 7:48 PM |