More unfortunate Google data pushes?

Well, 2 saturdays ago Google dropped my traffic to 40%, since this past saturday it's now down to 10%. Needless to say my confortable adsense income has dropped off completely as it did from June 26th to July 26th.

Is anyone else experiencing the same thing again? Is Google ever going to become stable again?

 

Same here - traffic has been dropping over the past week.

 

I've had some very high variation on a couple of sites but for the most part all seems as it was.

 

I dropped from 2500-3000 unique visitors from google to 200 on my main site.

 

Three sites I'm watching have slipped to second/third page of results this weekend
I must add it looks like google has reverted results to august/september disasters, it had been correcting itself slowly in the past two months and now it's gone back. Pretty irritating not say more

Google, if you're reading this: you won't me make buy adwords whatever you invent.

 

My experience in this business for more than two years now shows that in 2006 we have seen more frequent changes - almost real time changes, actually. In the past, results would be stable for a few months and then change only marginally; thus, you could predict more stable income and traffic. Right now, that is no longer the case. Since I manage about a dozen websites and monitor hundreds of keywords, everyday is a new story. I have simply taught myself to accept the new reality.

 

Not this time. Knock on wood.

You want to know how to fix this? Get deeplinks direct to interior pages. It seemed to clear up the issue for me.

 

I just discovered something! I logged into sitemaps and I have a zillion URL's not found, and the URLS are all from well over a year ago or maybe 2 years ago! Google fudged up its data on my site!

 

Well I think Google is doing something with their index cause I noticed that the competion for my sites main keywords dropped from 24 million to 8 million in only 2 days.......

 

My site hasn't dropped position but I noticed a while ago they relisted pages that had long since been removed.

 

the only recent drops I've had on any sites were because of "refine results"... thankfully there's an easy fix. I'm so glad I looked into that.

 

I can only say that if you put all your eggs in one Google basket, youre sure to come out of it with scrambled eggs....

Never rely on one income stream to earn revenues....

 

relying on google is different from trying to get the most out of it

 

True I agree 100% I try to get the most out of it I can as well...

But heres what my comment above was based on...

This indicates the OP is no longer comfortable, and the adsense loss hurt them in the pocket a bit too much for theyre liking.....

 

Yes I agree, it's not good to base your business on one other business. But when you do have a content site based on search traffic (started in 1999), it's all about Google because everyone uses Google to search.

Although it wasn't that way when we started, after Yahoo started using Google for its search (Before anyone knew who they were), then Google became the super power, and they took full control of internet search. Gotta roll with the times I guess. Accept it and evolve.

On all my sites Google sends 90% or more of the traffic (except my main site which now only sends about 30% but I imagine it will change again at some point)

 

I agree. I jhave content sites too and more than %90 of the traffic is coming from Google.

 

while i try not to rely on google for some reason google seems to love whatever sites i create while MSN and Yahoo seem to hate every site I make.......