My garden tips web site is being killed by Pandas and Penguins. These alien species have been imported by Google and are destroying the search rankings.

The search rankings were the main way to access the circa 2,000 pages of tips, hints and photographs on this web blog. Thousands of amateur gardeners read one or more pages every day until Google changed the rules. This new garden pest is called an algorithm and they breed at the expense of smaller web sites. 80% of the traffic has disappeared even though we try to comply with all the Google rules.

If you want most of your searches to take you to the BBC, Wiki, RHS or big businesses selling you a product then Google is the tool for you!

I can’t claim to be growing seeds of wisdom nor germinating the next great garden writings but Google used to give me and other bloggers an opportunity to share and shine.

For the Future

If you like idiosyncratic observations from a practicing gardener, with a warts and all approach, then sign up for our RSS feed. (I do not understand what sort of fertiliser this feed is but my son recommends it.)
The 5,500 photographs of gardens, plants and flowers, many or which feature on one or more pages, are still available to view on Flickr.

Why chose to illustrate the article with a Euphorbia? Well the sap is irritating but it won’t kill you.
Despite Google I will keep planting blogs and hope they grow in popularity.