For a little over a year now, I have been trying to
fine-tune my blog. It isn’t the fanciest
thing in the world and will never win an award, but I wanted a spot for my book
information and to talk about my experiences as a new, self-published author. Goodreads would have been nice, but they don’t
offer a blog. And Amazon provides a nice
author space, but again, no where for a blog; only a blog feed. So, I turned to Blogger.
I have toyed with Blogger before. In fact, many years ago I had a blog called “Read
It Again Mom” where I reviewed picture books and posted craft ideas for the
toddler/preschool age group. Pictures
were pinned a lot in Pinterest and the blog received a good number of visits per
day. Life because a bit chaotic though
and I decided to let the blog go. Now I
had to start again!
Remnants of my previous blog still hung out under my
username, so I had to do some cleaning, but things fell together rather nicely
once I wrote my first post. Again,
nothing earth-shattering, but I was expressing my feelings and ideas, sharing
new books and new experiences and over the course of the last year, I grew to
receiving 100-200+ visits to the blog per day.
I was so thankful!
THEN Google rolls out its “helpful content” update.
This update was supposed to target content written with
algorithms in mind to rank well – not necessarily content written by people for
people. Well, I can tell you, I haven’t
a clue how to write content that will rank well in Google yet I was hit
hard. My pages can no longer be found in
Google at all and I am seeing very few visits per day, probably as a result of
links in Pinterest and Instagram or on my Link Tree account.
I really do not know what to do. Right now, I plan to keep putting out my posts
filled with ramblings about my struggling author days.
On the plus side, this whole debacle has caused me to try the
Microsoft Edge browser because they have actually indexed my blog!
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