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I have several sites which do well in Adsense and I previously ran them as my prime source of income. But with the credit crunch combined with a very lucrative offer I have taken a 6 month consultancy contract. This contract takes up all of my time leaving me with no time to update my sites.
So, how long do you reckon I can ignore those sites before their Google ranking is impacted? Or rather, more imporatntly, before it affects my Adsense earnings.
More problematic would be if there is no change in your backlinks for months or years.
His partner bought him out, and I stopped working on the site, so it's been untouched for 4+ years. Until the yo-yo effect, the site was still holding its rankings. Now, however, it's dropped significantly for many phrases. For some phrases it's fallen to page 2, 3 or worse.
I used the way-back machine to look at rankings for various phrases four years ago. There's a ton of new sites that have cropped up since then. Nearly all of the top-ranking sites from back then are gone from the first page, and have been replaced by newer sites.
I don't know that there's any formula for updating, but I try to add new pages to my own site as often as is practical.
I used the way-back machine to look at rankings for various phrases four years ago.
dickbaker - I don't believe the Wayback Machine shows old rankings, but I'd be happy if I were wrong on this.
The example of a swim plan. In this case you don't even neeed to change your site content and Google knows based on user behavior if your site is up to date or not.
I agree it depends on your industry and competitors (as far as how/when they update, also).
Nearly all of the top-ranking sites from back then are gone from the first page, and have been replaced by newer sites.
One word for this is complacent on the old sites as to why the new sites have taken over.
Ted hit the bell Ring Ring
More problematic would be if there is no change in your backlinks for months or years
When I go away, on one site I have a php randomised script that re-orders my product listings and alters the wording every few days or so, just as a "look this site is still active" message to any visiting arachnids.
You could also prepare some different text files with info in before you go away and create a script that loads a new one up depending on the month...should keep it ticking over.
On a Wordpress site, you can pre-schedule articles in the Write Post screen. Whenever I am off to a conference or on holiday I set 2 or 3 up and schedule them to release every few days.
Just some temporary fix ideas :)
[edited by: Simsi at 5:27 pm (utc) on Oct. 15, 2008]
