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What Does Google Dance Effect

by That Guy
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So I've been doing internet marketing for almost 3 months and my site is two and a half months old. During June I was getting about 20-35 unique visitors/day, but now my traffic is going MUCH lower than that. Like for the past 2 days, including today, I'm getting less than 5 visitors/day. Is this normal for such a new site? Is this what google dance is? The worrying part about all of this is that my main keywords are still ranked the same but my traffic is taking a huge hit. I'll gladly take any warrior advice and knowledge on this!
#dance #effect #google
  • Profile picture of the author Mcoroklo
    Google Dance is a term used many years ago, when Google made updates.. Now, that term died many years ago as updates happen instantly.

    Now I am thinking 2 reasons:
    • Google Panda owned you: Improve all metrics such as bounce rate, pages/visit, time spent on page
    • Your site is new. New sites is ranking very differently the first couple of months..
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  • Profile picture of the author Bill_Z
    Are you certain your traffic was coming from your main keywords? You would need to use Google analytics or something else to find this out.

    And are you certain the main keywords are in the same spots? If you are just checking manually via Google the results you are showing could be biased if you are logged into Google or for a variety of other reasons. You can use tools like Market Samarai or RankTracker (from SEO Power Suite) to help you get true rankings.

    For a quick free method just make sure you are logged out of Gmail or anything Google and use a Firefox plugin called Google Global which allows you to do a search in different locations around the globe easily..here's a link Google Global Firefox & Chrome Extension - Addon For Search Marketers To View Google Search Results From Any Location - Redfly Online Marketing, Dublin, Ireland
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    • Profile picture of the author That Guy
      Originally Posted by Bill_Z View Post

      Are you certain your traffic was coming from your main keywords? You would need to use Google analytics or something else to find this out.

      And are you certain the main keywords are in the same spots? If you are just checking manually via Google the results you are showing could be biased if you are logged into Google or for a variety of other reasons. You can use tools like Market Samarai or RankTracker (from SEO Power Suite) to help you get true rankings.
      OK most of my traffic actually comes from referrals from google images, and a decent amount comes from long tail keywords. Also I used rankchecker, scroogle, and google chrome incognito to check my rankings.
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  • Profile picture of the author Bill_Z
    Just keep building content and building links and the traffic will come. With that little traffic, swings like you are explaining are normal I think anyway so I wouldn't worry about it too much right now.

    The google dance you referred to is actually what happens when your site rankings dance around in the SERPs due to a change in the number of backlinks to your site. Your site is still very new, so just keep working on it.
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  • Profile picture of the author purecapitalist
    If you know you were getting organic traffic (from the serps), then you're talking the post-honeymoon period. This is typical for a site around the age of yours. Google threw you a big party when you launched and ranked you above where they should have. Now you're looking at the after effects wondering what you did wrong ... the answer is nothing, keep building links.

    Now if your traffic isn't organic, you probably got a wiki link removed or something ... check awstats to see for sure.
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  • Profile picture of the author webgladiator
    The "ole" Google dance! What is it? Well, I don't even think a team of engineers at Google could exactly give you an honest or knowledgeable answer. But, essentially it does happen to brand new sites and older as well. I've had several sites "go dancing" from backlinking campaigns and others for no reason at all. One site went from page 3 after backlinking to almost non-existent; and then show up on page 1 after a month???

    Just keep doing the right things, providing great content, backlinking the right way and giving the user what they are looking for, and your site will find it's way!
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