LiewCF.com is Dying?!

Filed in: SEO Beginner, Site News — June 26th, 2006

It happened since last Thursday(June 22, 2006). Website traffic dropped dramatically. The amount of visitors drop from over 8,000 to under 2,000! Daily website revenue was cut off over 75% due to the traffic lost!

sudden traffic dropping
SiteMeter graph shows the sudden website traffic drop.

After some researching, I discovered that my website’s rank is dropped in Google search results. LiewCF.com was ranked top for many keywords but now it dropped out of the top 100 results. It didn’t even rank top for the domain keyword, “liewcf”.

This is terrible.

Am I alone?

After digging some famous webmaster forums, I discovered that I am not alone.

Conclusion?

Google is doing something.
DigitalPoint’s Coop network(or other link exchange?) may be the cause of search rank droppings.

I have temporary removed the coop links, but nothing I can do about Google.

My two cents

This is a disaster for LiewCF.com and my full-time blogging career. However, I believe LiewCF.com has good contents and this is a temporary change, everything will back to normal soon.

LiewCF.com will keep going to serve you good contents. Thank you for your regular visits.

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lai

My site is not affected.

word of caution:
always diversify your online income. Have few profitable sites, and few source of traffic.

I gave up SEO long long time ago and I am glad I did. Don’t wanna put all my eggs in one basket.
lai

My site is not affected.

word of caution:
always diversify your online income. Have few profitable sites, and few source of traffic.

I gave up SEO long long time ago and I am glad I did. Don’t wanna put all my eggs in one basket.
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Zarul Shahrin

I suggest you put less ads and more contents..Honestly, I stop visiting your website for more than a month till today due to those annoying ads…
Zarul Shahrin

I suggest you put less ads and more contents..Honestly, I stop visiting your website for more than a month till today due to those annoying ads…
Zarul Shahrin

well, I believe many won’t agree with me, but its up to you, I am just trying to be honest, your blog though its still giving that much of information as last time but its giving more and more frustating too… to many ads, and I hate the fact that when I saw something interesting and I clicked it hoping that its a link to a useful post just to find out its actually an affiliate link. Remember most of the things yo u normally blog about can be obtained somewhere else too and if you ask me whether I prefer to read it on a website with no ads or a website with ads, I will go for the one with no ads.

I know you want to make money, thats good, but if you’re planning to sell something, make websites mainly for that purpose. to “sell” and to make money. If you plan to make this website with a purpose to provide information, put less ads then. You might be saying those people like Darren make money from their blogs, but think carefully, how many ads you can find on his “main” blog, problogger.net? I have seen his other websites aswell, its not really a blog, its a website with the aim to sell but using a blog system. you can see a different between a website made to sell and a website made to provide information, honestly, I don’t believe in sites with the purpose to make money and provide information at the same time. Its not going to work! When I say website made for contents, I never mean you don’t put ads, yes you can, but not too many ads..I don’t know how to explain, but there is an obvious difference between a site that is meant to provide information and website that provide information but with the intention to sell. Try to think, with the topics that you blog, what kind of people come and visit your website? Do these people know nothing about “ads” or these people are people like you, webmasters etc who come here to get some information. Once you know what kind of people visiting your website, you will understand this essay.

Thank you
Zarul Shahrin

well, I believe many won’t agree with me, but its up to you, I am just trying to be honest, your blog though its still giving that much of information as last time but its giving more and more frustating too… to many ads, and I hate the fact that when I saw something interesting and I clicked it hoping that its a link to a useful post just to find out its actually an affiliate link. Remember most of the things yo u normally blog about can be obtained somewhere else too and if you ask me whether I prefer to read it on a website with no ads or a website with ads, I will go for the one with no ads.

I know you want to make money, thats good, but if you’re planning to sell something, make websites mainly for that purpose. to “sell” and to make money. If you plan to make this website with a purpose to provide information, put less ads then. You might be saying those people like Darren make money from their blogs, but think carefully, how many ads you can find on his “main” blog, problogger.net? I have seen his other websites aswell, its not really a blog, its a website with the aim to sell but using a blog system. you can see a different between a website made to sell and a website made to provide information, honestly, I don’t believe in sites with the purpose to make money and provide information at the same time. Its not going to work! When I say website made for contents, I never mean you don’t put ads, yes you can, but not too many ads..I don’t know how to explain, but there is an obvious difference between a site that is meant to provide information and website that provide information but with the intention to sell. Try to think, with the topics that you blog, what kind of people come and visit your website? Do these people know nothing about “ads” or these people are people like you, webmasters etc who come here to get some information. Once you know what kind of people visiting your website, you will understand this essay.

Thank you
Zarul Shahrin

*frustation
Zarul Shahrin

*frustation
http://lina-lee.com/blog/ lee

So Liew,

How’s your traffic development so far? Any improvement?
http://lina-lee.com/blog/ lee

So Liew,

How’s your traffic development so far? Any improvement?
LcF

@Lee: thank you. The traffic is recovering…
LcF

@Lee: thank you. The traffic is recovering…
http://e-techblog.com/ e-tech

Good to hear
http://e-techblog.com e-tech

Good to hear
http://www.chipcollection.com/ Sammy Taters

weird. so having random text links can hurt you? this is messed up.
http://www.chipcollection.com Sammy Taters

weird. so having random text links can hurt you? this is messed up.
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http://blog.jerryong.com/ Jerry Ong

I Found Google Drop by blog as well…. sob sob, what should we do to recover or just let it be??
http://blog.jerryong.com Jerry Ong

I Found Google Drop by blog as well…. sob sob, what should we do to recover or just let it be??
LcF

@Jerry Ong: read google webmaster guidelines: http://urltea.com/1djy
If you were referring to your blog, remove the massive blogroll
LcF

@Jerry Ong: read google webmaster guidelines: http://urltea.com/1djy
If you were referring to your blog, remove the massive blogroll
http://blog.jerryong.com/ Jerry Ong

I did check http://urltea.com/1djy but i think the info had been removed. massive blogroll? you mean the blogrolling i’m using? thanks for your prompt reply!
http://blog.jerryong.com Jerry Ong

I did check http://urltea.com/1djy but i think the info had been removed. massive blogroll? you mean the blogrolling i’m using? thanks for your prompt reply!
LcF

@Jerry Ong: Read: http://www.feedthebot.com/
Yes, your blog has a very long blogroll… Google dislike web pages with over 100 links.
LcF

@Jerry Ong: Read: http://www.feedthebot.com/
Yes, your blog has a very long blogroll… Google dislike web pages with over 100 links.
http://blog.jeryrong.com/ Jerry Ong

Thanks for your attention! seems like i’m lazy to google the answer but choose to disturb u Will remove it and see whether inprove or not! Thanks again~
http://blog.jeryrong.com Jerry Ong

Thanks for your attention! seems like i’m lazy to google the answer but choose to disturb u Will remove it and see whether inprove or not! Thanks again~

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