Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
I run a small photography site which had been slowly gaining ground on Google for about 10 months, but has suddenly had a drastic fall - my daily visits dropping from about 200 to about 20. This fall coincided with my adding some 'slideshows' to my site, which involved increasing the number of files and pages by about 40% overnight. I think I fell foul of Google's dislike of sites which show sudden large increases in size. My dilemma now is can I reverse the effect by removing some of the pages and adding them gradually instead of all at once? And if I can't reverse the effect should I continue to add a lot more slideshows now, or wait until the number of visits has picked up again then add them gradually? Maybe what is needed from now on is regularity - eg adding one slideshow per week?
The other dilemma I have is that although most of my site is original material, a while ago I added a section made up of articles reprinted from an article distribution service. The pages in that section have been indexed as 'supplemental', which I suppose is understandable since the articles were originally published elsewhere. My question is - will having those supplemental pages damage the standing of my site as a whole, or will my original material gain the standing it deserves in spite of them? To put it another way, would I do better on Google if I deleted all the supplemental pages, or shall I just leave them as they are?
Any help in making these decisions would be welcome.
At any rate, if you made these changes for your visitors, and they seems technically sound, then I would suggest not backing off and instead continuing to improve your site.
It is a continuation of changes happening for the last year or more, but something just doesn't feel right about some of them.
It will take a few months to pin down some of the new factors that are involved.
