If you are like me, you probably spent more time that usual checking out news sites to find out the latest developments in the Earthquake and Tsunami disaster. That means you probably spend less time surfing other sites, and I would assume that non-news sites, or sites that we not covering such events, saw their traffic decrease a little over the last three days. Any comments?
Surfers are so easily distracted to those hot big news aren't they. And they read it over and over and look for the video on utube and so on. Just to find little things that no people around know better.
That surely a normal behavior but it will only take just a couple of days and everything will back to normal..
Well, when you watch the trends - you write content about it, and try to build around the idea. So, what's the question here? My traffic is steady, and if you're losing traffic due to natural disasters - then you need to focus on more marketing areas.
I don't think Google traffic reduced from few days but it divert to some news site. All over the world people are founding news related to natural disaster.
The effect will be over shortly, and there are far worse things to worry about disasters temporarily reducing your traffic slightly
Well, it might or might not seem accurate all the time because the kinds of marketing measures adopted by domains admins and businesspeople too could have roles to play in this connection. For example, the leading international shopping malls sites or domain registration companies might not have noticed some drops in traffic. What you say could be true is the selected niches of some sites are actually deserted or not very hot but the well established sites which are getting constantly promoted through solid marketing campaigns may not experience some noticeable differences in daily visits made to their homepages.
Looking over the weekend stats, they actually were more normal than I thought, and I'm sure Daylight Savings Time played a role as well.
maybe it will get some effects actually it is a big event. But we can't make the excuse for the descreasing flow of google