Google traffic has dried up

Discussion in 'SEO' started by Sleepy_Sentry, Aug 12, 2008.

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    http://www.dealfiesta.com/

    My site got 100 visits a day from Google a week ago and was steady, but now my Google traffic has dwindled to 6 or 7 visits per day. I haven't done anything to get my site penalized.

    What's going on?
     
    Sleepy_Sentry, Aug 12, 2008 IP
  2. kingofsanda

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    The amount of traffic you receive from google will vary from time to time
    this usually happens when google changes their algorithm.
     
    kingofsanda, Aug 12, 2008 IP
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    Its very normal for a new site. From what I am seeing its only a month old?

    Google has a habit to rank a new site high for a couple of days/weeks only to drop it back down the ranks. Usually you'll see a climb of traffic and then a decline during that period.
     
    cormac, Aug 22, 2008 IP
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    Google updates. I had it happen on one client's website. I'm going back to the basics of quality link building and updating content to try to pull out of it...
     
    samsoncs, Aug 24, 2008 IP
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    100 to 6 is not a massive drop. Whilt it seems like it as you had very little to start with.

    Could the link(s) you had tailed off, ie they are less prominent due to going into archive sections on blogs and you have see a drop in actual ranking position?
     
    ukseo, Aug 29, 2008 IP