Google Traffic is very inconsistent

Discussion in 'Google' started by domregchief, Nov 5, 2008.

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    I have been facing a unique challenge on one of my content sites that has ~250K pages indexed in google. Visits were consistent and on the rise with 90% of the traffic from google until September and then the google traffic dropped to zero. Then traffic spiked again for a few days and back to zero.. now its back again since yesterday.

    As you can see from the attached analytics visits graph, google traffic is very inconsistent on my site now a days and its frustrating.. Any ideas on whats happening here.. [ Server, Software etc., has been fully validated with external premium monitoring on the website .. no long outages.. no external links .. only adsense ]
     

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  2. kingofsanda

    kingofsanda Peon

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    This is something that usually happens with newer sites that do not have
    enough high quality backlinks to maintain a high position in the serps.
     
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  3. Mike_Benner

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    Hello,

    That's exactly how my visitors graphic looks when i forget to pay my domain or my webhosting company :).

    Now seriously, it's either because your website is new, of if your website is not new, it might happen because of over-optimization (ie: too many links, too fast, or not diversified enough anchor text in those links).

    Hope this helps
     
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  4. domregchief

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    Site has been online for more than 3 years.. and has had consistent traffic growth with natural back links from technies bookmarking and related sites backlinking to the same. Site had gotten ~100 new backlinks over the last 6 months.. so nothing unusual there also.
     
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  5. WishBone

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    Many consider this as a cycle, sites are in randomly getting on top then dropped giving way to others, then drop again. Give strong links for your site so can guarantee either to be always on top or most frequent on top...
     
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  6. cherry30

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    Maybe the answer is as simple as having to refresh it. I am new to this but sometimes with google, you just need to refresh the page to get the result you want.
     
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  7. Pierce

    Pierce Active Member

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    um, 50,000 vists a day isnt a new site folks...

    The reasons you could be going up and down is the freshness of your content? Googles also changing the way they do things constantly so its not unsurprising but i feel your pain of 45,000 to 5,000~ per day visits from google.

    Pierce
     
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  8. mizaks

    mizaks Well-Known Member

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    Is it possible Google Analytics hiccupped during those days of zero traffic?
     
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    If your page is new, then this traffic drop is not such a bad thing. Probably your traffic will start growing again. Just keep posting unique and original content !
     
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    Dear domregchief,

    This same will also happened with my site: http://www.hosting24hour.com
    Please check this and define if u get any solutions. I have good ranking on several keywords but my site traffic is constant not increasing as per i added my knowledge for this.
    Provide me appropriate solutions if any one have.
     
    dineshkumar, Nov 7, 2008 IP