Googslap
May 2nd, 2007 Posted by: Dr. Cox
Googslapvt to adjust Google’s response to a website in some mysterious manner that causes its Google search ranking to fall abruptly, usually without providing any notice or explanation to the affected website. Normally carried out by Google.
Googslapn a sudden downward movement of a website’s natural search engine results, presumably attributable to the algorithmic tinkering of some Google engineer, that is typically not explained but feels vaguely punitive in nature
I had been reading earlier this week about how Google tweaked something or other in its algorithm, ostensibly to downgrade blogs that sell text links. And now my stats have taken about a 30% hit, all week. And yet I’ve never sold a text link, never sold an ad, never sold anything. In fact, I’ve turneddown requests to run ads on this site on a couple occasions. I can’t imagine what I may have done to displease the data Gods, except perhaps to write about what some people might consider a controversial subject.
I don’t know what else to say except: I’ve been Googslapped!
But whatever. Stats are sort of a pointless obsession, particularly when your stats are fairly low anyway, as mine are. And at least I will have the revenge, through this post, of putting my stamp (and perhaps my number one Google hit, which would be delicious) on a transitive verb that really needs to enter the mainstream Internet vernacular: Googslap!