I have little niche edu site that has great content built on Wordpress. For the lst several months I average 4-500 visitors a day earning about $35 a day for Adsense (this is not an Adsense question) As of Friday the 29th just about all traffic has disappeared. Its a PR3 site however, I know that really does not mean anything. Looking at the logs really does not tell me much. Any help appreciated. I cannot understand wht there would be any penalty as all content is written by us.
Really not sure about this, it's almost impossible to tell why. Have you checked your SERPS rankings and the keywords that traffic was originally coming through on? Can you think of any SEO companies you have employed that might have engaged in illegal activities in promoting your site without you being aware? I've heard of a sudden drop in traffic but not to the extent you have described, so can't understand why myself. Hope you get it sorted quickly and all the best with your site.
happened to me last week and on sept 1st too. lets hope traffic comes back. have u done anything wrong?
I have used someone on DP about 2-1/2 months agi that claimed they could create a big increase in backlinks. They would not reveal their methods but he has a great iTrader and reviews so I used his services. It seems the traffic that has disappeared is Google's.
I am still indexed as far as I know. I mean I have PR and backlinks although many less that in prior months.
FWIW my site www.inkart.net has dropped from about 2K hits a day to about 200. No idea why, no content change, no major redesigns, etc.
this happened to me too, at least I was still getting traffic from yahoo. but it seemed as though I just dropped off the world of google
all of this is normal and it will come back assuming you aren't doing anything wrong. If you are using black hat then you deserve it. I have a site with over 60 #1 pages in Google. I believe I am an SEO genius. I fell off the Google map, zero #1's. Two months later, all back. Go figure.
Follow Up: After doing a lot of reading on here I wonder if the fact that I use text link ads com on my site(s) has dealt me a blow? Up until 3 months ago I was buying links from said company but stopped. I also sell TLA on my sites for said company. Argh - worse yet, before I started reading about the TLA affects I acually paid for more ads yesterday from them thinking this is why I lost traffic. Opinions?
This is something that happens from time to time with newer sites, hopefully your rankings will be back to normal in the near future. Another explanation is that you were penalized for doing something wrong.