Since Jan 1st I have been doing a LOT of work releasing articles I had written during the cold winter months of 2005. Since Jan 1 I have released 20 different articles covering numerous subjects based upon my multiple websites. I also create and make my own line of software, and have submitted these new software versions to over 200 download sites. Google, MSN, Yahoo have indexed tons of these articles and the software, giving me higher PR and a lot of back links. Results since April 1 - Unique Visitors on all sites total have dropped by 200 visitors a day How can it happen ? Just does NOT make sense. Anyone else ever see such crap ? The harder you market the site(s) the less traffic you get. Now I understand why my YPN earnings have dropped since April 1......... But just don't understand it, it's like the summer slump happened early for me.
You need to analyse where your visitors are coming from and compare the stats to see where the change has ocurred. Once you know where the problem is you can address it.
It's like trying to catch the wind ... I have sites I've worked on for years ... articles, backlinks, directories ... the works ... and they get nowhere and have crappy PR considering the number of backlinks. Then there are the sites I just plopped onto the web and forgot about, that get decent traffic and have tremendous PR. Go figure!
don't bother submitting too many articles, better to have that extra UNIQUE/QUALITY content on YOUR site. If you must submit, submit 2nd rate articles so others have the crap on their sites while the good stuff stays on yours... lets face it, you write articles for the links, well you can get quality links by posting good content on your site. Not only that but you can BUY good links for CHEAP if you really want to. There are so many people selling them, so many cheap/free directories, etc...
Check your site for keyword overstuffing and other things that could be giving it penalities. I find these days that in-page SEO penalities can affect your site more than anything else. I made the mistake with one site of mine and I know it will never be up there now in G no matter what I do. Problem is that it ranks top 10 on MSN + Y. So I had to build a new site and strat targeted directly at google. New site (under a 6 weeks) already bringing me in 1/4 the traffic of the old one with little $$ spent!!! I made sure not to get any penalities on this one. Also I have given up on submitting articles now - Junk sites usually pick them up and who wants junk links anyway?