Nopy's Blog

Those of you who run your own blogs may have heard about something called the Google Panda. From what I gather, it’s a new algorithm designed to improve Google’s search results. It works by bringing down the ranks of low-quality sites so that when you search for something like “anime”, you don’t get results that take you to a page selling memberships to “Hentai Key” or some other porn site. So what does this have to do with me? Well, 2 weeks ago I noticed a rapid decline in the amount of traffic Nopy’s Blog was getting, right around the time Panda was being implemented. Yes, I was Panda Slapped.

At the time I didn’t know what was going on, just that not as many people were visiting, so I decided to publish a post. On March 24 I decided to go with one of the staples of my blog, a Megami Magazine post. That helped stall the decline in traffic as you can see from the chart below. Unfortunately, visits continued to drop shortly after that.

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Hello everyone, and welcome to my new domain at nopybot.com (yep, Nopy has left wordpress.com and has his own domain now).

For those of you who went to nopybot.wordpress.com and ended up here, that means you were safely redirected to my blog’s new home. If you have bookmarks or links pointing to my old address, I suggest you update them because you won’t be redirected here forever.

Currently checking to make sure everything was transferred over. It looks like there’s a few kinks to work out, but I should have those sorted out in a few days.