Blogs don’t deserve Google Freshness?
While freshness is not being talked about in the blogsphere what is being talked about, by those who make content for a living, is traffic from Google is down. It can apparently be confirmed by sites like Alexa
It must be noted that the holiday season is well know for major shifts in traffic so attempting to discern changes over Christmas season is problematic. Today we are clear of the season shift in traffic patterns, and it seems that many large blogs have been bitten by Panda.
I’m going to specifically say what Panda’s issue with blogs may be; duplicate content. Fresh content provided a path around Panda, and that path appears to be closed. Note: I may be jumping the gun here.
Google has also shifted to using Google Plus instead of blogsearch content as rapid fresh content.
With all changes there is good and bad. The good is that spammers will start to leave blogs alone and scrapers will stop attempting to get Google freshness by copying articles off of blogs. Quality of content will go up on blogs.
