[Richard Poe]

familyop writes: That would depend on how the webmasters for those sites try to get traffic. Hidden keywords and/or other violations will cause many or all of their hits to be voided. "Professional" website traffic "experts" are notorious for getting initial floods for their clients' sites, only to have their customers penalized by search engines soon after.

As my article notes, I am the designer of the Web site in question. I would not know how to game the system in the manner you describe, even if I wished to do so (and I certainly do not!).

You appear to be implying that Google may be legitimately penalizing us for some wrongdoing on our part. If that is your point, it is unwarranted.

The situation is exactly as my article describes. A Freeper named Sioux-san innocently posted one of Dr. Yeagley's articles on FreeRepublic. At least 326 Freepers responded by viewing Dr. Yeagley's page through the link Sioux-san provided

WordPress Stats and Site Meter duly and properly recorded the traffic surge from FreeRepublic. Google Analytics did not.

[familyop]

I wasn’t implying anything about the mentioned sites. If you want more search engine traffic, read the search engines’ documentation on how to get it.

I once administered a far more hated high-traffic site than yours. It was a truly conservative anti-feminism, anti-romanticism site. ...even published analyses and citations about Susan B. Anthony’s work against traditional family structure, religion and capitalism (also Beecher, Hull, Woodhull, all). The PLA (Chinese government) hit it a few hundred thousand times, then complained to our US Government about us violating “women’s” “human” “rights.” Threats from Democrats and Republicans of the social left were common. Academics with the CWA even argued (unsuccessfully) against the publications.