My site got huge amount of traffic (about 1300 uniques/day) only from August 17 till September 15 Before and after this period i get only 5-10 visitors from google Do you know what was in these updates and how rules are changed now?
There was a data refresh on september 15... and an other on the 29 cause a site that vanished from the serps came back on that day.
My site was hit bad in June and then for almost 2 months Google was f**king around until August when the site suddenly came back. It was there for a month, just like yours, and then in September it is back to the old shit again with supplemental pages from beginning of this year. Is Google ever going to get their shit together? Don't think so! Something is going on with Google and until we know what it is we all be in the dark. I am trying some things to see if my hunts are real or I am still in the dark but it will take a while for Google to update their results so I don't know if I am on the right path or not. Whenever I get any results, good or bad, I'll post it here
This is freaking scary man. I know a lot of people that make money from only one site. So if Google stuffs up those people will see their revenue drop drastically without ever knowing when it will go up again.
The updates are still going. My site's number of pages in Google's index doubled on Friday the 6th of October (with pages showing cache from the 5th of October) and the traffic went up by 100%, but the next day (Saturday the 7th) Google rolled the cache back from the 5th to the 1st of October and my traffic and page count went back down. I am confident that it is just temporary and Google will bring the pages back as they seem to be having some problems that caused them roll back an update they did on Friday.
This is a good thread. For myself revenue is down 20% for my sites as Google has delisted around 3000 pages. Visits are also down exactly 20%. This all began at the beginning of September as well. I can see on the PR update when it is finalized that my site is going up to a PR 7 so hopefully that will help. In the meantime, I am scrambling to build more pages in diverse areas to make up for this loss in revenue. PPC is impossible as in my industry it is a losing investment as people mainly seek information so I have no choice but to focus on natural SERPS. I can only hope something will change soon as I will have no choice but to start cutting expenses to make up for this loss in revenue. People have also told me that when you get delisted you can expect to come back in a higher position. I hope they are correct.
I'm in the same boat. My google traffic dropped 65% after sept.15 and hasn't recovered yet. My indexed pages dropped dramatically and are very slowly growing again each day over the last week. It's google so I expect the possibility of losing traffic after their updates. I don't like it but it's google.
IMO Nothing is really screwed. G is just shifting results around more now to get marketers to depend more of Adwords for SERPS. Sad but that is how I see it. I think the shift is to discourage affiliate marketers or "thin affiliates" as profit margins are much thinner than the merchant themselves. The merchant therfore can afford to compete more in the PPC market than the affiliate thus creating more quality results as they are generally the generator of the content and the product. Lets face it most affiliate sites are just referers for traffic with little or no content and a feed that has the content ... just a site full of links with descriptions that are the same across many sites.
i dont think the PR update is completed yet. My site is still jumping between pr 3 and pr 4. anyone experiencing the same ?
Yes, it isn't completed but you can tell it is almost stable. I have received 60 PR 6 links in one site and a big PR 7 on the index. You would be almost safe to assume that once this PR update is over Google will do a major update. That is why many pages have been deindexed. I have 10000 pages missing since Sept 1 and have lost alot of revenue over the last month thanks to this. It is not a fun life when you are vulnerable to what Google chooses to do. Follow their rules and spread your eggs around and you should be fine. Seperate sites, seperate IPs, seperate industries, seperate registration. Always think ahead of the big guys.