Realizing I haven't posted on any of my blogs - including here - for 7 months relates to many things happening in life for that time period. Meeting someone special and growing that new relationship. Outbreaks and cries of anguish and despair over at Hubpages from writers from post Panda changes and major and time consuming site changes. Periods of time spent working slightly longer than usual and stock take takes up so much energy.
Anyhow, for anyone who writes a blog, posts articles or has websites geared for garnering traffic knows the outcome of Google's most prolific and largest algorithm change since their inception has helped some sites, and caused pandemonium in others. Many sites, especially revenue sharing article sites got hit and hit really hard.
The farmer update - later called the Panda update, for those of you who dont realize what happens in the background of looking for information on search engines, was a major change to the results returned for search. If you search often, you most likely came across many articles from places like Hubpages, Squidoo, About.com, Ezine Articles and many other places.
Some of these articles were just content created to be easily found and generate revenue for people clicking on ads. Now this is fine and dandy and a great way to earn a (decent/second) income. The problem was, it was open to massive amounts of abuse and the Panda update is the first major update by Google, to combat this on their search engine.
So less crap, more informative and better search results.
The other issue is almost all of the writers around the world got hit and hit hard and now the rules have changed. One aspect that hasn't changed is if you are doing this shindig for the long haul, you can and will succeed.
