Click here if you like to do that kind of reading<\/a>.<\/p>\n“As with any update, some sites may note drops or gains,” Sullivan said on Twitter. “There’s nothing wrong with pages that may now perform less well. Instead, it’s that changes to our systems are benefiting pages that were previously under-rewarded.”<\/p>\n
He cautioned against over-reacting.<\/p>\n
“I’m deeply aware people will want to fix things, if there’s a traffic change (and generally not share if they’re suddenly rewarded). I think it is useful to say there’s no specific thing happenings, so people don’t just start making random changes. They should think broadly.”<\/p>\n
Among the services that Thinker offers are building, maintaining and hosting websites. After hearing about the update and the complaints of some webmasters of a sudden decline in traffic, we checked the analytics on our sites and didn’t find a lot to be concerned about. Thirteen percent of our sites saw a marked rise in traffic from July 31 to August 1. We had no sites that saw a discernable decline.<\/p>\n
We agree with Sullivan. If there’s nothing “broken” on your site, there’s nothing to fix. Follow the Google guidelines and you should be fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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