Hello, everybody. I’m posting this to let everyone know I will be going back to the format of reviewing one graphic novel per week. If you want to know why, keep reading. Otherwise, see you Monday morning.
Last month, my viewership numbers plummeted because of a Google algorithm update. A number of my reviews went from being on the first page – sometimes the first result – to the equivalent of Google Siberia. SEO is important to my blog, because I am not a social media person. My work is my voice.
I do not have a huge readership, but my blog’s numbers were growing. The update wiped out almost three years of work in an instant. I decided to quit WordPress and started a Substack. And then a crawler went through my blog, and some of my reviews were hiked back up. My numbers are starting to improve.
I do not know why Google treats their content providers like this. I am providing free reviews on their platform, which people seem to enjoy. If you go on Bing – unfortunately, not many people do – many of my reviews are the first result. Thankfully, I do not depend on this blog as an income stream.
I will try to post reviews on both platforms, with my Substack containing the horror content and this blog providing comic content. And I guess we’ll see.
Here is the link to my Substack.
Abandoned Places 