“ Fred Update ” is Google’s unconfirmed search engine ranking update in March 2017. Web analysts and many bloggers have collected data from 100 + websites that claimed about sudden drop in search engine ranking after 7 and 8th of March 2017.
It has been a couple of weeks since this New Algorithm Update in the working of Google\’s search engine.
This update was considered to target “LINK SPAM” mainly but it has also targeted those websites which have low value content on their blog with too many ads.
Search engines are focusing on providing higher ranks in search results to those links which have trustworthy and useful content with some unique information.
What are Low value and ad-heavy websites considering Fred Update?
There are many websites on the internet that have blog posts written for monetization purposes mainly. The content in these websites is considerably not up to the mark for many readers and they are also annoyed by sponsored banners and affiliate links.
Bloggers and article writers put a lot of effort while preparing a good content. They need some monetary benefits for keeping things going for them. Bloggers might think :
What is wrong in making money from website traffic?
Placing Affiliate links and Sponsored banners etc it good; overdoing it is not acceptable by google or other search engines.
As per the latest Fred update a blog post should be of high value and a proper answer for searched queries, preferably with statistical and analytical data supporting the answer or solution.
What should we do to avoid decrease in traffic after this update?
- Write content in such a way that it answers all queries of the visitor.
- Place social share links on your article to increase its social following.
- Write précised post Titles with lesser amount of stop words
- Do not write your articles with too many focused keywords.
- Some webmasters are suggesting removing “tag” pages from sitemaps. Search engine indexed tag pages are considered to offer little value to users.
- Do not write blog posts with sole purpose of selling something from affiliate links write something useful for visitors.
