Hey All, I have an eCommerce site that has been steadily losing traffic since last week. I'm hoping it's just a google dance but don't want to take any chances so I'm here asking for help and/or insights. I don't do anything against G's guidelines so that's rule out right away. The only things I can think of that may be the cause of decreased traffic are seasonality of my products and my robots.txt. The seasonality of the products is actually in season right now, and G insights shows the data that is consistent with my product history. My robots.txt has this: Disallow: /*? Allow: /*p= Can the first instance be accidentally interpreted as disallowing all pages? I tested it in webmaster tools and it was fine. Thanks for your help!
What about rankings for all the keywords that you are using, are the ranking results are same like the previous one ?
It could be any number of factors, we don't really know unless we take a look at your website. It may be possible that you've been hit by the new update they applied like so many others here - did you have unique, quality content for all products?
Check out your rankings, it probably due to recent updates, let's just hope there is Google dance and able to give back rankings those sites that deserves...
Basically, you can check your ranking in Alexa to see the rank is higher or lower, if the rank if lower, then add more backlinks...
Google's new algorithm system really messed up a lot of people's traffic. It is best that you diversify the way you get traffic to your sites.
It is the question faced by many like you and all are unanswered properly for it. It is just like that.
My rankings yesterday were actually non-existent. It freaked me out...one of our main keywords, an extremely competitive keyword that we rank #2 though #4 for, didn't show our site until SERPs page 4 and it was a link to a page that I have blocked by robots. I assume it was just a G dance because we have our rankings back today, but traffic is still below what it was previously. The site is not an informational site, not a content farm. It's eCommerce, with a unique market; basically all our inbound links are organic and there's nothing to syndicate except blogposts, which no one does. Any other thoughts? Thanks for the feedback!
Many webmasters have been experiencing this... It's not Google Dance, it's Google Panda, the new algo update which got rolled out internationally a couple of days ago.
It could be the trend of the products that you are selling? For example, Playstation 1 would get much less search than Playstation 3, but original Playstation had a lot of hits back then.