Blog traffic zero - what should I do now?

Is there any particular reason you wrote "unique" with quotes around it? Without any more information, I'm learning towards that as a possibly culprit... Care to give any more details?

You are not alone so be patient. Countermeasures will be out in next couple of weeks or earlier.

bro you should shift to a new domain name and do work on that domain name i am sure you will be sucessfull if you will do hardwork
just do as much hard work you've done on previous posts

Yes, it is due to recent update in penguin, this update is targeting emd and small website, you need to build authority site from now for better result.

Instead of building links you should build brand name of your site.

Which niche it is about? Do you try to promote your blog? Like go to Yahoo Answer. Answer the questions related to your blog. How is your blog looks like? Change the theme can be more attractive.
Did you try some paid traffic source? Like Facebook CPC. It's very targeted.

SEO traffic takes time. You've got to be patient and put in the work. However, you could also go for paid methods instead.

What should you do?

It depensd on what you want out of it.

I'm glad I got to this post by now. So far, you've gotten some bad and good advice from people.

Your domain name has zero to do with the amount of traffic you're getting. It sounds like you didn't have rankings to start with so there is no new change that screwed you up. Also, the negative EMD changes aren't coming into effect until 2013. The EMD changes made so far to the algorithm hasn't negatively effected people that haven't screwed up somewhere else in their formula.

Buying a new domain and redoing the site would be like starting from day 1 and repeating the exact same steps you already have getting the same results. You know what they call that... Insanity.

You have a site, now start doing things to send traffic to that site. If you don't know how to do SEO by now, I always tell newcomers not to bother with it anymore. It's fading out and the reoccurring changes to the algorithm WILL NOT be stopping anytime soon. Which means every time you do figure it out, you're going to have to figure it out again.

I suggest not worrying about SEO so you don't have to put up with that stress.

There are luckily about 1,000 ways to get traffic to your site. You just need to choose one of the other 999 for now.

You are updating your site with new content every week you say.... Instead of posting that new article on your site this week, find a blog in your niche that gets some comments on their posts. Then ask to guest post your article on their site. Leave a link to your blog from the article and you successfully have traffic. Depending on the blog, it could be long term.

Travis

I love the #3 option you mentioned.
If not, make sure you do not only depend on the search engines for the traffic sources

All I could say is file a reconsideration request w/ G... my site is a great site that is in the sandbox as well... I'd say just find other projects for now, and see what happens with your blog.

you could have writing guest posts on other blogs
and submitting some of your articles to ezine

Keep marketing and find other ways to get traffic. Consider ranking high on Bing and Yahoo too. Don't neglect other free and paid ways to get traffic to your blog.

Keep continue your posting. Some blog need a year or more to get steady traffic, subs or sales

The best advice anyone can give you is to stop depending so heavily on google traffic in the first place.

Evaluate your current situation and make sure the number 1 or 2 is never present. What do I mean?

How many techniques are you using to generate traffic? 1
How many websites are you working on? 1(?)
Is most of your traffic dependent on 1 source? Yes

Is it possible to make it big with one site? Of course. Would you want to waste years chasing mediocre results instead of using the 80/20 rule? Nah. (80% of your revenue will come from 20% of your efforts) Focus on what's working and scale it.

Rant: So many of us have made sites that were killing it in google only to have the rug randomly pulled from underneath them multiple times over the years. F(^#$ google, you don't need them to make big money in Internet Marketing.

Two words: Social Media

Diversify away from Google.

BTW. I know some VERY high quality blogs that were hit by this update.

This one had a lot of collateral damage...way to go Google.

First of all - how old is the domain?
It may take sometime before some of your pages start appearing on page 1 to 10. Check for the pages for specific kws. Keep writing and make some social book marking. It will improve your ranking and you will start getting some traffic.

If you aren't getting any traffic - check if the site is still indexed in Google.

About EMDs - they're not penalized. That would be wrong to say. Only thing they don't get the favor they used to get earlier from Google.

Build an authority site. Keep blasting out content, build a list and use social media!

If by "unique" you mean that they were spun to be unique, that could be the problem.

SEO is a slow and constant uphill battle.

My recommendation is to build off a single domain. Stay focused and create subdomains and directories targeting specific keywords in your niche. Make sure that each sub domain has fresh and original titles and meta tags. This way the spiders see new content. Then, feed your rss feed to all the subs and directories. Make sure to link all these sites together with a blog roll in the right or left column. you can also create a massive amount of capture pages on these subdomains as well. The choice is yours.

As you write articles, every now and again link another post into your current blog post. interlinking is very powerful. I am in the process of building 100 subs off of one of my domains. It is working very well on the search engines. hope this makes sense.

I have proven to myself that it doesn't matter what the name of your domain is; you can target it to any keyword you want and get top placement.-(That is if you have the tools and knowledge).

Why not focus on other sources of traffic instead of just relying on search engine traffic? If you need ideas, here are 50 traffic sources with an in-depth explanation of their pros and cons. Critique of 50 top ways to drive traffic to your site | free website traffic

Yes, the Google is hunting down all the low quality EMD wbesites. If I were you, I'd start focusing to build your website as an authority website. And that way you should be fine!

Don't rely on any one traffic source. Google's CRACKDOWN hasn't stopped yet. There's so many other SEO practices it can shutdown like web 2.0 links, sig links, forum auto bot spam links, comment bot spam, etc

Don't let your fortunes go down the toilet with Big G. Develop other traffic streams instead. Most of all, have your own site visitors act as your promoters. That's the best way forward.

Hey guys...

Hope it's okay to post in here. I've searched other threads and this is the closest I could find to my question.

I started 2 new reviews sites a month ago. I don't have exact domain names. I have posted content of value, all unique, that actually helps the reader learn about my products based on my research. I have 25 posts on each site. I was starting to get traffic and then BAM, about 5 days ago my sites went to virtually zero traffic.

I have a thought but don't know if it would work. Could I purchase an aged domain name, say like 2 or 3 years old that has some page rank and then slowly move my content to the aged domain. I could then slowly remove the posts from the current site that's apparently been sandboxed.

What do you think?

Be patient. We always see a lot of changes suddenly in search results immediately when a latest update takes place. It can take a few days may be a week to get back in track. Keep posting high quality contents in your blog. Do not stop that at all. Blogs stays alive and gets traffic for their contents.

I agree with many of the sentiments above - social media and guest blogging. I'm not sure if you were "hiding" behind your site before but it's time to come out in the open and get word out about your blog.

Another sentiment I agree with is that it's dangerous to be relying solely on Google traffic anymore. They don't really get their money from search results and people clicking on those links - it comes from Adwords.

Start building a list from your blog next time. If your content was that good (and I'm sure it was if you were making sales!), there should be no reason why you can't write a great free ebook to give away.

Sorry this happened to you but you now have some great feedback to work with to come out victorious.

If you really want sustainable traffic, invest in building up the community on your site. Put up a blog. Offer frequently updated materials. Foster engagement. Get into the heads of your visitors and make your site an AUTHORITY.

use seo and smo

Based on the # of articles you have on your blog it seems that you're trying to take advantage on SEO for keywords.

It's good but building your brand/ and the personality of your blog would matter in the long run. Understand where your traffic is coming from and try to scale it up. You can use Google Analytics for this.

Cheers!

HINT**: Put a subscriber box out there and try connecting with your audience.