My traffic went from 700-900 daily to 120-160 why would that happen?

Weird things happen with google, like this. Sometimes google will have your keywords ranked #1 one day and the next your in the 100's...just a glitch and etc. I guess (I'm not saying that's what happened to you) I don't know why this happned but maybe ride it out for another week and see how it goes.

The program you use to track your traffic stats should let you know where the decline is. Check with that to see if a certain traffic source is down.

You need to check your traffic stats....Where did you get most of your traffic from? See if that service is down. Just pray that it aint your google traffic that took a sudden plunge for if its google i think thats as bad as it could get right now.. Maybe you should rewind to the last couple of day when you were getting your usual traffic stats....take a look at what you might have done different....example did you submit your side to any cheesy traffic bot? etc..

nobody knows for sure exactly. google's algorithm is kept secret for a reason, plus it changes all the time.

you need a business model that doesn't rely on SEO imho.

break down the different keyword levels and traffic to understand what part of your SEO strategy is working.

I suggest you check your traffic sources. See if there
have some changes in them, that caused decline
in your traffic.

Also, if most of your traffic was coming from organic
searches, I suggest you keep a track of your SERPs.

Karan

Most likely your search engine rankings for a number of keywords was substantially reduced. The same thing happened to me a few months back, and after checking, I determined that I no longer ranked well for a few of my most highly trafficked keywords. The change was overnight, likely due to a Google algo change. It lasted for about 2 months, then about 2 weeks ago, it came back almost exactly where it left off.

Don't surprise with the result of the traffic you get. Sometimes it really happens. Sometimes you are on the top, sometimes you are at the bottom.

Thanks to all you guys for taking the time to help me with this problem. It's been a couple days and traffic is picking up again. Yesterday I had 213 visitors which I think is good for a new blog.

Are you using free traffic, or paid? We need a little more information on that so we can help get you back on track! Cheers,

Why ask why? Just enjoy it while it lasts!

Search your articles on Google and Yahoo..... Sometimes, it may happen because content Scrapers.

I would refresh your cookies, because your site may still be showing you its ranking well on google, but that may only be do to the stored cookies on your browser.

Just a thought

-FitnessNut

traffic down for various factors even a low search for a specific week for a specific keyword lower your traffic nothing to fear about update the contents.

From what I understand, Google uses several different servers that don't always output the same information.

This can result in your site's page rank going up and down at times.
You'll find that you may be on page 1 for months at a time, then all of a sudden you disappear off the radar.

Who can understand the mind of Google?

If anyone can, let me know--and I'll make a fortune!

Pete

Hi,
Nobody can understand the algorithm of Google because it can be change at any time. I would also like to suggest you that just keep in view the uniqueness in your articles. If you have unique articles and strong keywords, this issue would be just for the time being. Don`t get confuse by checking your ranking on daily basis but after every 4 or 5 days you should rely on it.

I'm sorry but THIS is the reason you run analytics. I suggest people not use Google Analytics either. I can't trust Google anymore. I much prefer Open Web Analytics (OWA) to Google now. It's free and a few hosting companies have installers for it. It's not any more or less difficult to set up.

J

What you're experiencing is very, very common. So common, in fact, that I've written a blog post about it on my site called The Three Month Phenomenon. It can happen for a variety of reasons...

* using the same exact linkbuilding approach for too long and leaving a signature
* just a random site reassessment
* you cross some threshold in the Google algorithm that makes them "look harder"
* Google periodically just mixes things up to re-evaluate not only you but others trying to get onto page 1

The first thing you need to do is determine if it is truly site wide or if it varies by keyword. If every keyword appears to be about 30 spots lower or 50 spots lower, that's a different situation than just a bunch of your keywords dropping but others holding ground.

SEO is an art as much as a science, so you're gonna have to do some digging. But the most important thing that you can do is realize that SEO is a long-term marketing process and not something that you should have an expectation of 90 day success in. Also keep in mind that newer sites are getting harder since the Panda update. Google really keeps pushing harder and harder towards aged, strong authority sites... so you need to strive to become one of them rather than fight them.

It may be of the panda update.

Did you do anything to it?

I made the mistake of using some software on my blog that was sitting fine in Google... within 2 hours Google had knocked it WAY down in rankings....

Sad Christmas :-(