Hey All, I have a small business site that plugs along merrily converting two to three sales per day on average volume of around 150 unique visitors per day. Nothing to write home about, but it's been steady for about 4 years now. As of last Friday, traffic plummeted to only 55 Unique Visitors. (and no sales) I chalked it up as an anomaly. Saturday- 8 Unique Visitors and NO SALES. Sunday -10... Monday - 4... Our page rank has not changed (much) for our target keywords on any of Google, Yahoo, MSN, Search Live, Ask... It's almost as if our traffic is being intercepted somehow. Is this possible?
You should use a tool like google analytic and monitor what is different in your traffic source. My guess is that google is shuffling their serp and your result are in them.
Did you check site:www.Yourwebsite.com on google, do you see all pages indexed as earlier? Did you check Link : www.yourwebsite.com on google, were all the back links present or less? I would suggest do some onsite optimization and wait till the pages are crwaled again. Submit your sitemap.xml. this might bring your website back on track.
The answer to both is yes. Also checked digitalpoint keyword tracker for keyword positions on MSN, Google, and Yahoo, and found but typical fluctuations for all keywords on each. That's the thing that puzzles me. Our traffic is about 20% from Google, 15% from Yahoo and a mix for everything else, but the drop in traffic doesn't corrispond with these figures AT ALL. Is it remotely possible that our traffic is being hijacked somehow? Sounds silly I know, especially given our paltry volume but this is just weird. ALSO, still showing consistant average of about 75 crawls per day from various engines.