Since the intervention of Google Instant, I have noticed some changes in the stats on my blog, in particular those of long tail keywords.

At one point my search engine stats would show up with single keywords more over any others, but since Google decided to release Google Instant, I have noticed an increase in the bigger search terms.

For example one of the most popular posts here on Blazing Minds is the post about “How To Select All Your Friends On Facebook” since the change the term “how to select all friends on facebook” is the number one source for traffic from Google and the second most popular term is “how to get traffic to your blog“.

Also you will noticed that both these search terms are also the titles of the posts, so maybe that’s good standing for the posts to show up in Google Instant.

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This morning the times announced that they had started to roll out their online Paywall! Now disaster for one of the biggest sites in the UK has been struck, and they have vanished from the Google SERPS!  Even when you run a search on Google for the “Times Online” you get the sub domain pages, in fact the www.timesonline.co.uk domain does not appear any where in Google.

Check out this screen shot from Google:

It would appear however that the site has not been “automatically” removed from Google and in fact has been MANUALLY deleted from the SERPS!  The site has no meta tags that instruct google to “noindex” and the pages are still accessible at the moment.  Which in effect means that the Paywall hasn’t been rolled out yet.  Suggesting that after the announcement, Google offices would have then found the Times Site and manually taken it out of the SERPS.

Whether or not this was a collaboration between Google and the Times leader Murdoch is unknown.  Interestingly as mentioned you can still access all of the sub domains but cannot access the main website.  There could be yet more changes to come, but at the moment, the main Times site looks as though it is a faint memory!