Losing indexed pages and visitors any ideas ?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by noobie2shoes, Dec 6, 2007.

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    My site www.cheekywoof.com was doing not bad with about 100 visitors per day for about 3 weeks then dropped down to about 20-30 per day. My total pages indexed have dropped to about 1/3 of what i had a few days ago so I am guessing thats what it is down to.

    Can anyone tell me why that might have happened ?

    The only thing I can think of is that many of the pages have similar meta descriptions (Duplicate??) with a few words changed here and there
    (you can see what I mean here)

    Thanks for any help I can get with this. :confused:
     
    noobie2shoes, Dec 6, 2007 IP
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    I doubt that the meta descriptions could be affecting your rankings that way, I'm curious as well to find out what's wrong.
     
    Accelerated Media, Dec 7, 2007 IP
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    my friends news web site dropped from 698.000 to 17.400
    I think you must write small texts to every page of your sub pages and update your meta description for every page.
    Also you may submit your sitemap.xml again.
    I see your site has a problem with cheekywoof.com/robots.txt
    Please check it
     
    tekteker, Dec 7, 2007 IP
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    Thanks for your replies !

    I will try and resubmit my sitemap and check out the robot action.
    Cheers
     
    noobie2shoes, Dec 7, 2007 IP
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    So what was the problem with my robot.txt and how did you check it ?
     
    noobie2shoes, Dec 8, 2007 IP
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    Hmm or another theory is the Sandbox.

    I kicked this site off in Septmber and I was averaging around 20 hits a day. Come early november then I am getting about 100 hits a day. A few days ago I am back down to about 20 hits per day.

    Low and behold in the last 5 days i am only getting about 9% of my traffic from google. What do you guys reckon ?

    Sandbox action ?

    Does this refer to the age of the site or the age of the domain.....the domain is over 9 months old and I had a different site on it for alot of those months. I started my current site in September.
     
    noobie2shoes, Dec 9, 2007 IP