One of my site, which basically belongs to entertainment niche, with full of images was receiving more than 60% of its traffic from Image search engine. I was getting close to 800 referrals from google's different image seasrch engine (located in different places). Day before yesterday when I checked the analytics stats I was in for a surprise, the huge number of 700+ was reduced to a mere 90+. That was a shock as against usual trends people who visit via image search engine also spends good amount of time in my site. I checked the stats today also and was dissappointed by the falling image search numbers.
My traffic from google search engine still remain the same. This led me to the question whether Google has indeed change their image search algorithm. As a usual SEO technique I used to use alt tag along with all images. Since I group images as a set I use the same alt tag for one set. Google might be now penalizing guys who are using the same alt tags for more than one image. Another could be , google may have discarded the alt tag completely as there are widespread abuse of the same. This also could have occured because I used the PageName tag for title recently; this may result in search engine taking more time for re-analysing the pages. These are my assumptions, this may be wrong. But if anyone of you have experienced the same please comment. Anyway I am going to wait for some more days to see what happens. Would report the same in a couple of days.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Has Google Changed their Image Search Algorithm?
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
RedZee - Watch Your Searches
RedZee’s biggest attraction should be their Mascot. I don’t know whether they call it RedZee – But it’s very well animated and will surely make everyone try their service for at least once. Below is the screenshot of the search result.
RedZee gives a text description of the sites, but only one at a time. Many were critical about RedZee ability as a search engine, as a text based description will give more information. But I believe RedZee has its own advantages, especially those who are searching for entertainment and Media related stuffs. For them, RedZee’s interface could be better than that of Yahoo and Google as we can get a glimpse of the site. But for information related search, I do believe RedZee would be in a disadvantage. But RedZee’s biggest disadvantage is the relevancy of searches – when I did a search for "f c Barcelona" (without quotes), the official Barcelona site came at fifth. Ahead of it were Wikipedia and Blogger. This could be because of the amount of blogs about Barcelona hosted by Blogger. My site All About F C Barcelona never came in the result. If you include the quotes in your search terms, nothing shows up. This could be disastrous as all the net users are trained by Google to search a particular combination this way. Second problem is with the search box in the search result page. Enter key does not work here and also you cannot select a particular to delete or edit here.
But over the entire concept put forward by RedZee. It’s still in its beta version and could turn out to be a more powerful tool when moving out of Beta. But the biggest problem for these guys could arise if Google decides to implement a Visual Search Engine.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Alexa Changed their Ranking
I was casually searching for my entertainment niche site Actress Snaps' ranking in alexa and was was quiet surprised to see my site jumping close to 100,000 position compared to yesterday. so I decided to take a peep into what's behind the sudden surge. It looks like Alexa has refined its ranking system. Alexa ranking system has been under heavy criticsm from all part especially from the best in the blogging business. The main criticsm was that Alexa ranking was based on the number of users who have installed their toolbar.Now they claim that they have refined their rankings by adding more factors. they haven't revealed what all those factors are. But anyway now it looks like more close to being accurate. atleast Google is having a 2nd ranking in their newsystem, but still can't digest the fact that yahoo is more popular than google.They alos claim that they are still collecting data for the new ranking system, so can expect a few more jump very soon.
