Dodging the Panda

Dodging the Panda

 (for all my AC/YCN friends)

We’re moving to a new domain.

The reasoning is fairly plain.

Since Panda left us in the dust,

No longer do we page views trust.

Since February, we have mourned,

As Google has our readers scorned.

The Panda buried titles deep

With writers crying, “Bleepity-bleep!”

Yahoo! Let’s take another chance

And maybe do our happy dance.

May hyperlinks uplift our hearts

And raise the numbers on our charts.

We welcome browsers, one and all,

To overlook the Panda’s call.

This ursine carnivore is cute,

Unless he steals our page view fruit.

Today the change may make us frown,

And readership may slip way down.

But by tomorrow, all retooled,

May publications be refueled.
c2011 by Linda Ann Nickerson
 

“Hope springs eternal in the human breast:

Man never is, but always to be blest.”
Alexander Pope

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NOTE: In February 2011, Google implemented Panda, an algorithm alteration that automatically deranked many informative websites in user search results. Those affected most by the change included user-generated news and features sites, social networking communities and websites containing significant levels of advertising.

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Image/s:

Giant Panda

By Matthew Field

Creative Commons Licensing Photo

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