Whatever Google intended to do with the latest update, I personally think there was some collateral damage done to sites like mysqljoin.com . Since this is only a site I created to show people how joins can be used within MySQL (for free), I never spent money to a SEO agency or something. All I did was installing a SEO Plugin for WordPress. Am I guilty of “over optimizing” now?
The site is approx. 1,5 years old and it grew slowly. The first few month nothing really happened, then people somehow started to link to us , people on stackoverflow.com started to reference us and things like that. To me, this looks really organic. However, the traffic dropped overnight from approx. 1500 unique visitors per day to approx. 300 unique visitors.
If this update works to fight again spammy sites in the organic results, I’m fine with it. Even though I have no idea why Google penalized us (no message in webmaster tools or the like), it looks like it makes some form of “reverse SEO” possible: Instead of focussing on improving your own search engine ranking that much to outperform the competition, simply attack the competition by whatever Google now obviously doesn’t tolerate any more.
Honestly, do you as a reader thing the MySQL Join Tutorials are spam? Is it “valuable content” as it’s called by Google? A lot of people who commented on the posts seem to be happy about them.
We’re open to new ideas! What would you love to see as a tutorial as well? What don’t you like about our current tutorials. Any feedback is more than welcome.
Thank you very much, Jan
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