For the past 3 months, one of my sites performed very well with Google but since yestarday, Google traffic is almost 0 and it dropped half of my pages. The website has 2 years and something, only white hat seo everytime and I didn't took any mass backlinks ever. So, now im staying and wondering, wtf happened?
well..in webmaster tools...i had around 35k backlinks...then after 3-4 months,it showed 0 backlinks, 0 inlinks..now its growing again, i have around 9k and going up. I didn't lost many backlinks during the past half year and as for keyword targeting, let's just say for some terms I was on the first page 4-5 spot...now im not even in the first 6 pages. Google also is removing many pages from its index, so I guess it's another problem.
You are not alone, I have 2 websites, both ranked well in google, but few days back, both are vanished from search results. There is no decrease of backlinks in webmaster tools, but I lost all my ranking in google.
I'm dealing with the same problem on a few of my sites. Ranked really high in Google for a long time, then bam, the other day traffic dropped from Google like a rock. One thing that strikes me as odd is Google's results SUCK. The results aren't very relevant from what I've noticed, plus the overall total result volume seems low. I think we are looking at a rolled back dataset, and I think it will revert back to normal in the next week or so. I wouldn't panic and make tons of changes just yet... - DSL
ya..this is also what i was thinking of (the optimistic part) but i can't say im not a little stressed out...its odd after a long time to be penalized or to be rolled back. I also talk with a friend today, which has a similar website(more old and relevant than mine tho) and he didn't noticed any changes in the serps
Google filters more and more backlinks every day - what is odd, we are not always able to understand that logically.
my forum went from having nearly 25,000 pages indexed to just 11,000....this is out of no where - this came a day before the forum's pr was raised from a 0 to a 2 google is weird, very weird
Interesting! But then again, we do know that toolbar PR has little correlation with rankings. The timing is interesting though. Why pat you on the back and kick you in the butt at the same time?
My site was up from 3rd position to 2nd for 3 days last week. Then out of the blue it went back to 3rd. Today, back up to 2nd position. Driving me crazy, not sure if it is what I am doing or what my competitor is doing. After reading your posts, maybe it is just Google Sucks, spent lot of hours re-writing content of pages to avoid duplication. HaHa...Google always has the last laugh
well, my site got back on the rankings but since 2 days ago, it was dropped again.i really don't understand what's happening with google. The google dance is still on or has some issues with me only?
as far as i know or i heard PR toolbar in Google it's not that accurate in terms of updating a site PR.
well, i don't really care about the PR or the toolbar The SERPs are a problem in my case and it's a wierd problem from my point of view..never happened before
Just to make an update, nothing changed for the past 6-7 days, the Google traffic is low as ever and my overall traffic sucks ofc. I think it's time to make some changes and I'm even considering a reinclusion request @ Google. What do you think?