Today is my 32nd Birthday. I was hoping that after possibly the worst 24 months of my life dealing with family issues which are still ongoing that there would be something positive to look forward to. Google however have done nothing but to stress me out even more with the Mayday update. Its now almost 5 days since I saw my rankings completely nosedive on my Micro Niche Sites and there doesn’t seem to be any light at the end of the tunnel. Now I’m a very positive person and it takes a lot to get me down but this whole thing has bowled me middle stump.
There was a slight glimmer of hope though. I’m beginning to see a slight increase in earnings from some of my older sites. These are sites that I developed prior to getting into the Micro Niche and the John XFactor methodology arena; what is strange though as that the domains are also exact match domains. I can’t help thinking that age DOES have something to do with this.
How will I rise above Googles Mayday Update?
June 7, 2010
So a lot of people’s AdSense earnings have been hit really hard by the Mayday update from Google, (me included). I’ve spent the last few days just in a complete and utter daze, not knowing what to do or how to attack this huge problem. Its not often I walk around my kitchen scratching my head with a worried look on my face.
So I thought to myself in the middle of the night as I was adjusting the fan in this London heat….’Just carry on doing what you did before, you’ve got nothing to lose now’.
As some of you may be aware, Google continuously makes changes to its algorithm, about 400-500 a year in fact. Most of these have little impact on us internet marketers.
There are always some huge updates, recently Caffeine was a major way in which Google indexed and ranksed sites.
Now on June the 5th, something bad happened, I mean something terrible, I noticed that one by one, the majority of my sites that had been holding page 1 positions started to drop of the SERPS like flies. Sites that were earning me a decent income had completely disappeared. At the time of writing this, pretty much 99% of my XFactor sites have vanished from the top 10 and gone into oblivion.
