Don’t keep all of your Eggs in one Basket
You will I am sure of heard of this saying before, and it’s a lesson I learnt in 2005, when my business website [not a blog] slumped out of Google for 3 months, due to a penalisation for adding too many pages to my site in a short period of time [I activated Mod Re-write]
For these three months the site didn’t get any traffic from Google, and it was during our busiest part of the year that this unfortunately happened. Nowadays, I don’t rely completely on Google traffic, but anything they send me is a bonus.
Why am I writing this? Well, I have seen on some webmaster forums where people have spent hours after hour concentrating on optimising their website for Google. Yes, Google traffic referrals blow Yahoo and MSN out of the water, but think outside of the box, and look at other ways to market your blog.
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Filed under: Blog Promotion Tips on July 12th, 2007
I personally think google is just the extra bit. Most comes from word of mouth
Word of mouth is the best way to market a blog or site, but Google will always be the No.1 referrer of traffic to your site or blog.
Your right though Darren, and what your saying is that if Google dropped you, you need other routes of trafffic, otherwise your dead in the water.
I completely agree that we shouldn’t rely on Google for all our traffic. In fact, I started looking at Ask.com today - thinking that I may start advertising with that search engine instead. I’ve started seeing commercials on TV for Ask.com, so it won’t be long before more people will be using it - if they aren’t already.
Excellent post. Even though Google is currently #1, that will inevitably change as all things do in technology and business.
Maria, I’ve used Ask a few times and liked the search, but for some reason I always seem to go back to Google.
Paul is right though, just ask Alta vista who was no.1 before Google came in. I do think though that Google will have a bigger grip for along time to come.