Racketboy In Trouble: Google Search Traffic

[o.pwuaioc]

FWIW, I copy and pasted into Google search engine the URL of the hidden gems Saturn page, and I got a direct result. Not sure what that means, though.

[racketboy]

FWIW, I copy and pasted into Google search engine the URL of the hidden gems Saturn page, and I got a direct result. Not sure what that means, though.

Maybe Google needs time before it actually updates the results again?

[Zing]

I no longer use Google. I use duckduckgo. When I search for "best snes games", Racketboy is the third result. I can see forum posts when I limit the search to racketboy.com, but I assume they are a few pages back in the general search.

[Stark]

I no longer use Google. I use duckduckgo. When I search for "best snes games", Racketboy is the third result. I can see forum posts when I limit the search to racketboy.com, but I assume they are a few pages back in the general search.

Yeah I wonder if that's helpful information or not though? I put "rarest Saturn games" in bing and it was the first post. But the number of people that use Google as a search engine must be insane.

[noiseredux]

I no longer use Google. I use duckduckgo. When I search for "best snes games", Racketboy is the third result. I can see forum posts when I limit the search to racketboy.com, but I assume they are a few pages back in the general search.

Yeah I wonder if that's helpful information or not though? I put "rarest Saturn games" in bing and it was the first post. But the number of people that use Google as a search engine must be insane.

I don't think it's relevant at all, as Racket said:

Google traffic is the lifeblood of keeping the site financially healthy.

[Zing]

I guess I was just saying that it must be something with Google that has changed and not the RB site itself.

I did a duckduck search for "Rare and Valuable NES games" and the first result is a link to the actual article, not the index such as with Google.

[ksloth]

I just did a search for "Collecting Retro Games" on Bing, Yahoo, and Google.

Racketboy came up as the second result in Bing and Yahoo, and seventh on Google :/

Wtf!

[racketboy]

I just did a search for "Collecting Retro Games" on Bing, Yahoo, and Google.

Racketboy came up as the second result in Bing and Yahoo, and seventh on Google :/

Wtf!

The home page or the index pages come up fine -- again, it's the single blog post pages that don't in Google.

[ksloth]

Sorry, I should have read more of the details in this thread

I just did a search for "Collecting Retro Games" on Bing, Yahoo, and Google.

Racketboy came up as the second result in Bing and Yahoo, and seventh on Google :/

Wtf!

The home page or the index pages come up fine -- again, it's the single blog post pages that don't in Google.

[MrNash]

Racket Boy could just be getting the short end of the stick on a new Google algorithm update. They happen from time to time, and can be absolutely brutal. Or they can be like winning the lottery as a site's traffic skyrockets. It depends, but it sounds like you got the bad side of the deal.

Check WebMasterWorld. They're usually good about researching these things, and it's spam free as they have a strict rule against users linking to their websites. Here's a couple of links that may be useful:

Google March 2012 Search Results Discussion:
http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/4423978.htm

General Google SEO Discussion:
http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/

I hope these are of some use to you guys.