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Originally Posted by robwod
What I find happening a lot of times is that every time Google makes an algorithmic change, some people lose their minds and scramble to make changes -- often times overreacting and potentially doing more harm to their sites than if they just left it alone and focused on building it's content.
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I agree. I've been yo-yoing with google for years now. Sometimes I'd get a big drop and then 4 months later it would pick up and then it would go down even further than before.
This last update hit me hard too and I'm going to focus on building my site. I've wasted many hours chasing google when I shouldn't have. The only reason to make big changes is if you made big changes just before you experienced a traffic drop like picking up too many backlinks at once or changing your htaccess etc...
Being something google hates (affiliates) doesn't help either but, like the tubes, if you keep your surfer on your site for long periods then google with have no choice (because of it's algo) but to give you some love.