In 2008 a google search for sunflowers would have found gardeners tips in the top 3 results. Now it would be luck to be found in the top 3 million. We are number 115th for the more specific ‘sunflowers gardeners tips’ as Tips for Easy Sunflowers from 2015.

So why are the mighty fallen?

• We have not kept up with search engine etiquette, metrics and optimisation techniques preferring to have our fun with with 2000+ somewhat random posts.
• There are a great number of tipster sites and commercial businesses whose need for  traffic drives them to focus and stylise there offerings.
• Google algorithms and analytics are far superior to those of 10 years ago.’
• We were not mighty and do not claim mightyness yet but we hope to keep sowing, growing and gardening.

Sunflower Titan