Re: Where is the traffic shifting to?
I’ve thought this too. I picked a WP theme for the specific purpose of it being one of the best for optimization - there are a couple of free ones out there that others suggest are good quality when it comes to optimization - and then I adapted that theme to be highly SEO’d too. I’ve used a lot of unique text content on there, and it seems to do well against the “wall of tubes”.
I don’t think it’s solely about optimization though. I think Google is supporting laziness. They see that people are more interested in just sitting back and watching a video, rather than reading or scrolling through images, so they’re supporting that by promoting tubes and giving surfers action rather than information.
Basically I think Google often says that content is important - unless it suits them. They would like all of us to work hard to create engaging and unique content, unless we’re a tube that they can easily serve up to people who obviously prefer videos to images or text. In which case their own standards are ignored.
[QUOTE=gay porn blogs;119180]On May 26, 2011, Google announced that Google Blog Search would be deprecated, along with several other APIs.[8] As per the deprecation policy, Google Blog Search will be shut down on May 26, 2014.[9]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Blog_Search[/QUOTE]
Ah, well that’s good news
But it’s still there, so technically this could still be a contributing factor to lower traffic.