can somebody explain the reason of this

I have news site (4 years old), which is updated 5-6 days at week (20-25 per day).

last 2 months my traffic was increasing , and if before that i have 1500-2000 uniqs/day, for this last 2 months it increased to 3000-3600. the most interesting fact is that every week i check 100-300 plus visits. and if 2 months ago i have 5 gb traffic, for this last months i make 20-25 gb/month.

everthing was well, only at the start of september i went on vocation for a 7-8 days and didn't update site 5 days.

when i come back and check my servers stats i was amazed. starting the second-third day of my vocation site stats decreased from 3600 => to 1500-2000/day and is keeped this day (2 week). as my site is a news site (like a weblog) google and aol (95% traff is from this se-s) visit my site every day.

my question is :
can this 7-8 days of my vocation (when site isn't updated) be the reason of such a phenomenon (uniqal visitors stats decreasing 2X : 3600=> 1500-1800).

or i must search other reason ?

 

This happened to me as well. I'm still trying to figure it out - it doesn't seem to be a content issue.

I have a sneaking suspicion it was my ad being rotated off high PR pages (the advertising coop).

Are you using the coop ?

 

I'd analyse the trafic pattern a bit deeper.

Could be someone screen scraped, iframed or syphoned off.
Check if you had specific IP's demanding traffic outside of aol and other proxies.
Present traffic may be true traffic and someone hopped on and off... happened to me and I had to ban IP's
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of course i check it. and don't think that the reason in this. also i sell some products on my site and my business is going down too :-(

hmm ... i don't using any coop.

 

what is the site in question?

 

sorry, don't understand ur question?

 

what is the website you are talking about? We can then look at it and see if anything is not quite right somewhere.

 

here is link http://www.dental.am

 

I think that around Sept 3rd there was a major swift in Google results, which made many websites sink in the SERPS.

 

hmm ... are u sure?
and can i ask what other SEO guru think about this ?

thx

 

Well, I cannot recall where I read it (some SEO forum probably) but I'm almost sure people were talking about this. Maybe you should just check your position in the SERPS, if your traffic comes from search engines...

 

of course i check my positions in the serps ... and the picture is very interesting. after my vocation they are going a little down, during this 1-2 weeks i can return some of them to their previous positions.
my opinion is that my site loss positions in serps for secondary keywords, but not on main keywords or keyphrases which give me the main traffic from SE-s. so i cann't tell that i loss so much positions in serps ... (IMHO)

and another question:
have a new site, which is live 2-3 months, as i don't did any adv and marketing, site had near 5-10 visitors per day. at the end of september i update site 2-3 times , and after that my site stats show 650-700 visitors/ day !!!!
and the most interesting fact was that all visits are from one IP (64.71.144.51.** - ). it continue 1 week. now the picture is the same 6-10/day

what u think , it's one of the se-s visits? and if yes, why he check so often during one week and why results after this SE update are the same ?

thx