Traffic drop on google, what to do next

[dhaliwal]

Has anyone seen the traffic drop from google in the last five days.
Yesterday was the worst with me loosing nearly 60 % traffic from google. and i am talking about big traffic numbers of 5 k plus from google alone. :rolleyes:

I think the SERPS have changed, what would experts suggest me ??

Now, the pages are there, but the SERPS are very very lowered and they have gone to page 5 and ahead.

should i start a fresh with new pages on some new site. i know it will require me lot of time to build traffic.

Regards
Dhaliwal

[leo]

I had a drop by about 50% w.r.t. one month ago, too. Holiday?

[rickbender1940]

Has anyone seen the traffic drop from google in the last five days.
Yesterday was the worst with me loosing nearly 60 % traffic from google. and i am talking about big traffic numbers of 5 k plus from google alone. :rolleyes:

I think the SERPS have changed, what would experts suggest me ??

Now, the pages are there, but the SERPS are very very lowered and they have gone to page 5 and ahead.

should i start a fresh with new pages on some new site. i know it will require me lot of time to build traffic.

Regards
Dhaliwal

Same thing here starting on the night of Aug 5. Drastic drop across many search terms. Slow partial recovery since then. Also big intra-day fluctuations between early morning (way down) and evening (up).

I also noticed that the "regulars" on the terms I was trying to promote haven't budged much. One other bit of data I can think of: since going on a link campaign the last 2 months we've acquired a ton of links in a very short time, including quite a few sitewides.

One more thing: normally our site is crawled daily, however since Aug 5 it hasn't come by.

Anybody else seeing these? Dhaliwal, what changes did you make the last month or 2?

[Kings]

Yeah, same here, pretty big drop. I think it has something to do with holiday or summer, as the SERPs haven't drastically changed for me.

[NewComputer]

Here is what I have noticed. I search using DP tools, 16 fairly specific words and terms. Since early August, I have been dropped from Google for about 13 of those 17. I mean dropped. MSN and Yahoo! are showing similar results, maybe down a bit. NC.ca was somewhat of a test for me as far as SEO goes and the only thing I signed up for with it was LinkPartners. Now, I get a lot of requests from LinkPartners, but I only incoporate those relevant ones. Maybe someone there tried to link to me and was not reciprocated and decided to 'tell on me' at LinkPartners.

Who knows what could result from that. I do know this though, according to RustyBricks tool about future pagerank, I am going from a PR4 to a PR5 and it says a 26.82% increase, which I thought was alarming.

I can't be bothered to worry about what Google is doing, but if someone wants PC work done locally, then I know I am the best resource for the public (I know, a little vain) but I should be the number one result for that.

[rickbender1940]

Here is what I have noticed. I search using DP tools, 16 fairly specific words and terms. Since early August, I have been dropped from Google for about 13 of those 17. I mean dropped. MSN and Yahoo! are showing similar results, maybe down a bit. NC.ca was somewhat of a test for me as far as SEO goes and the only thing I signed up for with it was LinkPartners. Now, I get a lot of requests from LinkPartners, but I only incoporate those relevant ones. Maybe someone there tried to link to me and was not reciprocated and decided to 'tell on me' at LinkPartners.

Who knows what could result from that. I do know this though, according to RustyBricks tool about future pagerank, I am going from a PR4 to a PR5 and it says a 26.82% increase, which I thought was alarming.

I can't be bothered to worry about what Google is doing, but if someone wants PC work done locally, then I know I am the best resource for the public (I know, a little vain) but I should be the number one result for that.

I doubt it's anybody telling on you. Various other forums are buzzing at the moment with similar tales of sudden drops...

I do notice that both of us were on active link-building campaigns preceeding this. I guess in the next few days we'll get a better idea of possible causes/ algo changes

[flawebworks]

I haven't had a traffic drop; but I have noticed a couple of things.

Before Google got hit with the latest worm; I was crawled everyday, several times a day. Since the worm; every other day, once, maybe twice a day, the home page only, sometimes the sitemap. Every fourth day, Google slams me, deep crawling.

I have not noticed any changes in Serps, except maybe one or two numbers but nothing to get worried about; I do have half a dozen or so terms that go away; but they do come back. Usually takes 3 or 4 weeks.

[digitalpoint]

I have not seen any traffic drops, but I haven't had an ranking drops either. It's impossible to do a global ranking drop for all sites, because for everyone moving down in rank, there is someone moving up.

[Smyrl]

As a result of this thread I just checked my e-commerce site and traffic was down Friday and Saturday. I wonder if this may not be attributible to fact that many schools are starting this coming week. It is last time families can get out of town before all the carpooling etc starts again.

Shannon

[wiseone]

I've noticed about a 2000 uniques drop per day over the past weeek or so.

[anthonycea]

Many are doing threads on this subject on a lot of forums, I think that the Google spiders have come up missing, at least here on DP, I have not seen one today unless Shawn took them out of the "whos online" page.

Maybe the virus shutdown had an effect on traffic and spidering?

Anyone noticed less spidering from Google lately? :mad:

[Will.Spencer]

We should all remember that for everyone who loses in the SERPS war, someone else wins. :D

[anthonycea]

Sort of the old stock market theory Will, for everyone who makes money on Wall Street, someone loses money? :p

[rickbender1940]

Many are doing threads on this subject on a lot of forums, I think that the Google spiders have come up missing, at least here on DP, I have not seen one today unless Shawn took them out of the "whos online" page.

Maybe the virus shutdown had an effect on traffic and spidering?

Anyone noticed less spidering from Google lately? :mad:

Yes!!! Since the night of Aug 5 Googlebot hasn't visited our site (normally it comes by every day like clockwork from 9pm and crawls the site by 4am)

Good to see digitalpoint has been affected - perhaps evidence it's just a glitch and not a penalty.

[wiseone]

One page spidered by googlebot since Aug 5. This was from Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)

[rickbender1940]

One page spidered by googlebot since Aug 5. This was from Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)

How does this compare to your regular frequency?

[anthonycea]

So RB, you think we are on to something here that not many have mentioned in the other threads or even thought about it seems? :confused:

[anthonycea]

Well the GoogleBots are back in force at DP, they must have been sleeping :D

[NewComputer]

I have emailed Google to see if there was a problem with my website. I have removed my website from LinkPartners.com and I let them know that. I will let you know the result.

They may never respond, but I hope they do.

[rickbender1940]

I have emailed Google to see if there was a problem with my website. I have removed my website from LinkPartners.com and I let them know that. I will let you know the result.

They may never respond, but I hope they do.

Although I don't think Google's crawled Linkpartners.com (my site isn't listed there), maybe it's a good idea in general. How easy it would be for Google to unleash a bot on Linkpartners.com and SeoPark.com and wreak havoc on the sites listed there!

[rickbender1940]

Ok as of now my SERPS have recovered somewhat. Not fully at all, but significantly above the depths they plummeted to a couple of days ago.

[Will.Spencer]

Sort of the old stock market theory Will, for everyone who makes money on Wall Street, someone loses money? :p

Strangely enough, although this is true for SERPS, it is not true for the stock market.

SERPS are a zero sum game.

In the stock market, on the other hand, the total value of all pieces of the game grows and shrinks. That makes it possible for everyone in the game to win, and also possible for everyone in the game to lose.

Economics is way cool. :D

[DarrenC]

Usual bot movement, no major movement with KW's but slight drop in traffic - I'm putting this down to the holiday period, where schools are closed people are away and in my business have usually already booked there vacation.

[rickbender1940]

Well Googlebot has finally started to recrawl our site as of 8am Aug 10.

[NewComputer]

Starting to make a comeback. A few cached pages. Some big jumps in the keyword tracker (http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/keywords/).

Very excited that either it was nothing and my panic was all for not or that it was LinkPartners.com and I have they felt my removal was suffice.

Anyone else noticing a climb etc... I mean those of us who were lost.

[rickbender1940]

Starting to make a comeback. A few cached pages. Some big jumps in the keyword tracker (http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/keywords/).

Very excited that either it was nothing and my panic was all for not or that it was LinkPartners.com and I have they felt my removal was suffice.

Anyone else noticing a climb etc... I mean those of us who were lost.

SERPs are up, but still jumping a lot intra-day. Sadly, our best rankings are every day about 1am EST, and worst are from 4am-6pm

There's regular jump up at night and a jump back down in the early morning