Just the other day, Google announced that it would try ‘to reduce rankings for low-quality sites’. The company did not mention the names of content farms like Demand Media, Suite101, Associated Content, Helium.com, Examiner.com and Hub Pages but it was clear to almost all the journalists and bloggers that Google has declared war against these content farms.
Demand Media officials are surely concerned but have managed to put up a brave face until now. It has perhaps helped the company to some extent at the stock exchange as the price of the share of Demand Media has not suffered until the Friday closing of the market.
Most probably, majority of share-holders felt that it was a temporary problem and Demand Media would come out of it almost unhurt. Well, early signs perhaps indicate just the opposite.
According to a Blog Post of Erik Sherman at BNET, most of the websites owned of Demand Media has suffered significant decrease in visitors in the short term. Erik Sherman got the information from Compete.com. Compete.com is a company that monitors and analyses Web Traffic in USA. According to Compete.com, not only Demand Media but also, Examiner.com is also suffering from decrease in traffic. However, Erik also wrote, "Examiner.com, which is not owned by Demand, saw a continuation of a traffic drop trend, so it’s unclear whether the site was actually hurt."
Helium.com also suffered a lot in the last few days as far as decrease in web traffic is concerned.
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