Vegas Baby!
Posted on November 14th, 2005by Michael Gray in Random Thoughts
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January 4th, 2006 at 9:19 pm
[...] In late July I published my Adsense Series (Google Adsense: Tips, Tricks, and Secrets) followed by a whole series of articles on building better blogs and content based websites. Now my Adsense series made the Delicious Popular Page, brought in huge amounts of traffic and links. In fact people are still adding it to Delicious. In October I got residual traffic from the SEO ranking paper I contributed to (more about that later), and made a few snarky Google posts. Now other than things like Google Bowling, Bacon Polenta, Eco-Friendly Flip Flops, and the occasional odd key phrase here and there I don’t do a lot of targeting here (not to say you won’t see some camouflaged tests now and again). But I can tell you Google referrals picked up in November, and I believe this site came out of the Sandbox at that point. Now someone is going to point out OK so why did your traffic drop in November if you just came out of the sandbox? First I went to pubcon in Las Vegas and then was blogging light when I went to Disney the last week of November. So while I wasn’t posting as much and people weren’t visiting traffic dropped, but Google referrals made up for most of the lost traffic. Once I got back to posting regularly the impact of coming out of the sandbox was completley evident shown by the large traffic jump in December. [...]