Polyfetish

A few months back I noticed that Google had stopped sending Down On My Knees thousands of visitors every day. Suddenly it was none. I checked and almost every page had been moved to Google’s supplemental index (meaning these pages aren’t worth a damn).

Not again. My original website (which now lives on as four separate sites) had something similar happen a couple of years prior. That time I knew why (or have always thought I did). While the site had thousands of pages it also had even more thousands of affiliate marketing pages generated by scripts. Google eventually reacted to the junk pages and devalued the whole website. Fair enough. I just wish I’d understood before it happened so I could’ve kept the affiliate pages under control.

Shortly after Down On My Knees got zapped I learned that many sex bloggers were hit. Google assumed that all the sex bloggers were exploitative pornographers. Susie Bright was sufficiently well known that in her case and other highly visible sexuality bloggers the error was corrected.

Now I’m nobody in the great scheme of things. But as Google fiddled with the algorithm controlling this I got about a third of my Google traffic back. Well, for a week or two. Then it dropped to a tenth of the prior level. And so it has stayed for the last couple of months.

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