Quality of Brandy traffic so far.....

[eyeinthesky]

I'm getting more traffic from Google due to the Brandy update -- something like 30% more despite being dropped by Yahoo.

That means traffic from Google (& their partners) have more than made up for the loss due to Yahoo.

But conversion rate has plunged by more than 50%. Does this mean the new traffic from Brandy is inferior? Or is it seasonal kind of thing?

Anyone has the same experience?

[filo]

The traffic for my site dropped by more than half and conversion rate even moreso. I'm really disappointed.

The latest algorithims are insane if you ask me. A search for www.bluewidgets.com -> bluewidgets (just the bluewidgets part without the www. etc) returns no results to my site where I had the top 2 before. A search for "blue widgets" returns a page on my site first that is buried and has no more reference to "blue widgets" than any other page.

From my point of view, things can only get better from here as my traffic really can't decrease much more without disappearing entirely.