80% of the traffic from google suddently gone!

[JamesATaber]

Hello everyone,

On my website suddently 80% of the traffic from google is gone. This happened over night see:

http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/8103/traffich.jpg.

I am really confused because I have not made any changes on the site for a few months.. Any suggestion? Can someone pleae help me to point out what to do?

Link to webite: http://www.saqib.biz

[Paidpergoogle]

Maybe try to reupload and resubmit sitemap? you said you made no changes? Site without updates isn't very interesting for google.
I see the line going up - maybe you used dirty advertising methods or something?

[metros]

Hi,
Since it is going for 5 days only I'd recommend to wait few more days to see if it growing back (It can be a DC Update/Dance within SERPS) or punishment.

[JamesATaber]

Thanks for your responses.

Metro:
It have been a week now, how long should I wait?. If there is some kind of penalty applied, how can I find out? I have also checked webmaster tools, cant see any messages there..

Paidpergoogle:
I dont think I have used any dirty advertisement methods, at least not any I am aware of.. How can I find out? any recommendations?

FYI: I have not bought any links to drive traffic.

[metros]

Thanks for your responses.

Metro:
It have been a week now, how long should I wait?. If there is some kind of penalty applied, how can I find out? I have also checked webmaster tools, cant see any messages there..

Paidpergoogle:
I dont think I have used any dirty advertisement methods, at least not any I am aware of.. How can I find out? any recommendations?

FYI: I have not bought any links to drive traffic.

The best thing you can do is to keep the website active, market/promote it and do what ever you used to do before.

[zachatus]

try to check if you are still being indexed in Google.

[Professional Dude]

Check to see if your website was given a penalty, if your site is new, then it would come back up soon.

[JamesATaber]

zachatus:
The site is indexed at google
site:http://www.saqib.biz

Professional Dude:
The site is many years old, and the traffic has been steadily increasing until 17. July then it suddently dropped as mentioned in first post.

[JamesATaber]

How can I check if there is a penalty applied? Cant see anything in google webmaster tools...

[JamesATaber]

I probably did something stupid like linking to another website which I also own( without using rel=nofollow)...these links where completely removed from the website a 2 or 3 days later... I am not sure but this is the only thing I can think of...

The traffic situation is still the same as showed on the graph...getting less than 200 daily users from google... :(

Traffic earlier:
http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/8103/traffich.jpg

Traffic at the moment
http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/3555/captureqyz.jpg

Can someone suggest how to proceed? or what to do?

[ChaosTrivia]

It is really hard to say. You are the only one who should know the answer, from the history of the SEO data of your url.
A very very close look at google webmasters in conjunction with Analytics will provide the answer.


I see a suspicious raise before the drop. Do you know why was the raise? because it could also be the reason for the drop.
http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GGLS_deCH291IL304&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=link:saqib.biz/
I see only 1 link (from Israel, maybe in other countries you would see more).
With 1 google link, even 200 users/days is too much.
Maybe google suspected that you violated some ethic code and as punishment, they erased most of your backlinks.

[HomeComputerGames]

This may be one issue:
link:http://www.saqib.biz

I would concentrate on backlinks for a time and see if that helps/

[JamesATaber]

Regarding the raise of traffic before dropp..

I did submit my website to different directories...I dont remember which directories. And I also never did use any SEO software to do that.... everything was done good old manually way.. but that shouldnt result in a drop inn traffic or what?

[JamesATaber]

still indexed at google

site:www.saqib.biz (http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awww.saqib.biz&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a)

[JamesATaber]

...and the traffic is still the same as shown on the graph above... :(

[Sonal Shah]

It may happened your backlinks go down.