Hi so I've been doing SEO for about 2 years now. I've learned a few things about SEO. About the "things to do" or rather "things not to do" when launching a new site. ie; don't build too many links to the site at once. (make it look natural). Don't build too many links to the homepage. (Ensure the posts/pages get a fair share too). Mix up the links with different kinds of linking strategies. (link diversity). Generally this has brought me success on all of my sites. (Apart from being outranked by my competitors on some of my sites but that's another story). But sometimes I just don't have a clue what it is but for a couple of my sites, Google has seemed to almost de-index me completely. Well not completley, I mean, I can still find my site and it's pages etc by using the site:mysite.com operator. But the site in question has stopped getting the traffic it was getting. At first I was adding lots of relevant content. Not too much but long posts so it looks like it's an authority post. (good seo advice). Making sure to bookmark my pages. (Even use BMD for camoflauge). But in the last couple of days one of my sites has gone from almost getting 100+ hits a day to literally nothing. Why does G do that to a website? Look I attach a summary of my traffic stats for this month. I was getting more and more and then yesterday, literally dropped off the map. I am using webmaster tools but that don't really tell you shit. I've followed all the Google advice. So whats the problem. As you can see my traffic was rising, Google was swallowing up my content and I was getting hits from site of my site tags as well but last few days. nothing. What do you sugest webmasters? Don't let Google beat me! Should I just give up? Or should I continue to build links to my site (homepage/posts/pages) and carry on with another project in the mean time like so many of us do.
How long has the site been around? Give us more details. I'd recommend deep linking - link to certain pages on your site, and also; build more links to those pages. What type of website is it? A blog? A forum, or? Is all the content unique?
Actually not very long a couple months. With a domain name that is 100% keyword friendly for a niche that gets 2600-3600 searches a month. Plus not that much competition and I've been doing backlink analysis of my competitors backlinks. Also this site in question is a .info but trust me, don't believe what people tell you about .info's especially these days as there's more of them and they're more trusted but google doesn't really show that much preference to TLD I mean I've had the same and different things happen to different TLD's. Thanks for the tip that's what I was thinking too. If all else fails, build more links. I think to my inner pages but at the moment it only has about 7 or 8 500-800 word posts and about 10 pages with anywhere from 50 to 500+ words and yes all content is totally unique, keywords researched + keyword density researched. Site runs on latest Wordpress and using Google Sitemap and All-in-one-SEO plugin. I just don't understand how Google works. I mean, why send me oodles of search engine traffic for the things I set out to rank for and then suddenly stop. Not even gradually, just suddenly overnight or something like it wakes up and decides hmmm, lets mix things up a bit. I sware that Matt Cutts does this just for fun? I have another site this has happened to. Was getting about 250 a day after its first month of launch. then traffic stopped suddenly in one day. Now every now and then this happens..
Give it some time! If this website is only a few months old, you may have triggered some type of "sandbox" filter. Some people don't believe the sandbox exists, but Google does devalue newer websites and it takes time to rank well -- and consistantly. You may have gotten lucky and bypassed this filter in the beginning. But now, somehow Google has realized your website is new and was getting a bunch of traffic. I've seen it before! A new website starts getting a bunch of traffic, then it disappears for months before coming back and holding onto it's positions. It could also be a fluke... and maybe your website will return shortly. Either way, don't give up! Keep building backlinks to your website and eventually you'll be rewarded
competition is tough so you really can't blame google.. after all, they can make changes or reapply conditions and algorithms when they want because it's their search engine to begin with
Nice thread title. Has the # of searches for your keywords been down recently and so this might be just random variation?
I would continue building links to site and pages and give it a couple of weeks to see if the traffic returns. If it doesn't, then just let it sit for a while and move onto something else.