Guys Google used to send my site lots of traffic thru keyword search results. For the past 2 weeks it has stopped sending traffic my way. SERPs remain the same.This is surprising since Google always sent me good traffic and hence my Adsense revenue was good. My site is at www.topforeignstocks.com Can anyone tell me why this is happening?. I am confused and this is frustrating.No change in PR. I know some of my pages are not working properly due to a database issue and my ISP is working to fix it. But other than that everything is the same. Since my site is a niche site for foreign stocks, is it possible that people are not searching to invest in them?.Or is it possible Google penalized me for something? Thanks in advance for your help. Cheers -David
Have you made any changes to your site? Especially page title or anything? Most probable reason could be because you are competing in highly competitive niche and thus it's not uncommon to see SERP ranking change even by minutes count.
the topic of your site says all! may be your previous customer all are broke and waiting foreclosure or bankruptcy ... may be some of your previous site visitors have learned from past 1 year of global economic crisis and have moved from investing in OTHER business to investing in OWN job qualifications to one day qualify for a FREE life in their OWN business. some ppl learn fast - others are pushed to learn by live and global changes of life. if you want to succeed - may you you change topic of your life resulting in a change of topic in your site ... there is ONE single business I ever invested and I ever trusted - my own ! may be others also start to realize the difference from being share holder of soap bubbles and being owner/master/creator of your own reality.
lycos Thanks for the quick reply. I haven't made any change to my site such as the other just adding more posts when possible.My PR was 1 and still stays the same. But google was sending me traffic as people searched for specific words. Yes it is a highly competitive area. I guess I will wait and see.
vishvambposervices Just checked. My PR remains the same. But I have the following errors: Hits by Response Code: Code 206 - Partial Content 2 Code 302 - Found 121 Code 304 - Not Modified 371 Code 404 - Not Found 393 Code 500 - Internal Server Error 2 I know I have fix these.But are these really bad?. I am not a technical guy.
Hans I agree.The global economic situation is very bad now for most folks. In the US, not a day goes by without some company laying off people, reporting more losses, etc. I know other countries are impacted as well. But I would say that starting a business and being successful is not easy. It would be great if everyone could have their business and not depend on companies to invest or work for others.Not all companies out there are "soap bubbles" waiting to screw shareholders.
last months out of 16507905 hits I had 4 error 500 - nothing to worry! but I definitely would check all your 404 one by one to see where to origin is - may be wrong links on your site or some wrong link you have from outside but something you may correct using a rewrite ...
same thing happened to me 4 weeks ago and it's still on. Traffic from google search engine dropped to 5%. I have even more indexed pages, only that they are on 50+ pages. Number of backlinks increased in this period (i can see this in webmaster tools).
Hans - Thanks.I will look into the 404 errors and fix them. Sphinks - Lets see if our traffic comes back like before.When your site is growing and all of a sudden if this happens, it kinda depresses you.So I guess our only option do what we normally - that is keep writing good content and see if Google will act nice.)
I've had some sites with the same problem. I'm going to wait it out for another 2 weeks and see if things naturally heal.
Your RSS feed don't work.... you need to fix it and add it to google webmaster, yahoo site and msn web live. build links, write unique content and you should be fine. Waiting wont help you at all.
HomeRun Thanks for your reply.Just checked my RSS feed works fine. Maybe it does not work for you? My feed address:feeds dot feedburner dot com/tfs I am already doing what I did before- writing unique quality content. Checking Google's webmaster tool on crawl stats, I found out that my content is not probably good enough to be listed tops in SERP. Seems like I need to work on that. I will check my site's progress with Google and report any updates here. Cheers -David
Guys Today google indexed my site. There are about 79 of my 150+ pages indexed now.Seems like they had some data center or system issues. -David
Yesterday iweb pagerank checker showed that more than half of the datacenters were down. We should give one more week.
Thanks Rdatson and sinol. Interesting to see how Google acts as a typical monopoly.Does not give proper info. on why it does something or what it does.Hopefully it will get better. Yes I am starting on social networking sites like twitter,stumbleupon,etc.
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