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How To Know Exactly Whats Bringing Down My Traffic?

by THpubs
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About a month ago, my blog (techhamlet.com) started to loose traffic very rapidly. The bounce rate have also increased. So I started to write about the content that my readers mostly want... About Linux stuff. But still the traffic is going down.

The only problem is, im not an SEO expert. I have no idea what is going on. I don't know what to do to review my blog. To know that I need to know whats going on. There are many possibilities.. SEO problems, Google problems, Hosting problems, content problems... How can I know this? Please help! Please tell me how to pinpoint the real problem!
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  • Profile picture of the author patco
    Well, it's hard, but if you can remember what did you do the day before you saw such a problem for your website... For example did you build any links?!?
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  • Profile picture of the author THpubs
    I can't remember exactly what happened. At the start of this year, I organized a big Kindle Fire tab giveaway. For that, I hired a person to post it to social media... He did a lot of posting but I didn't saw any traffic gain. No idea whether it have effected...

    I accepted guest posts a lot... But most of them are unrelated. Now I have reduced them a lot.

    The host I use is a cheap VPS host in italy... Prometeus...

    I can recall many like this but not sure whats the exact problem
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    • Profile picture of the author online only
      Originally Posted by THpubs View Post

      I can't remember exactly what happened. At the start of this year, I organized a big Kindle Fire tab giveaway. For that, I hired a person to post it to social media... He did a lot of posting but I didn't saw any traffic gain. No idea whether it have effected...

      I accepted guest posts a lot... But most of them are unrelated. Now I have reduced them a lot.

      The host I use is a cheap VPS host in italy... Prometeus...

      I can recall many like this but not sure whats the exact problem
      You were probably hit by Panda.
      The good thing is that Panda is refreshing itself pretty often (could be once in a week)

      It might be the guest post issue. Which means that Google gets a lot of mixed signals from your site. For example, if guest posts are about dating and you write about linux then you know.. it sucks.

      Get rid of the guest posts and write the things related to your site.
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      • Profile picture of the author THpubs
        Originally Posted by online only View Post

        You were probably hit by Panda.
        The good thing is that Panda is refreshing itself pretty often (could be once in a week)

        It might be the guest post issue. Which means that Google gets a lot of mixed signals from your site. For example, if guest posts are about dating and you write about linux then you know.. it sucks.

        Get rid of the guest posts and write the things related to your site.
        I accepted all technology related guest posts. No gambling, no unethical stuff... I review them thoroughly...

        Do I have to remove all the unrelated posts? I charged for links in some posts which doesn't point to the writer's own website.
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  • Profile picture of the author THpubs
    Can it be a problem in the host? How can I know that?
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    I even lost all the sitelinks!
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    • Profile picture of the author dburk
      Hi THpubs,

      The answers you seek are available in analytics. Are you using web analytic software?

      Because data beats opinion, I recommend:
      1. Create a Google account, if you do not have one yet, and verify your website on Google Webmaster Tools.
      2. Sign up for Google Analytics, if you haven't already, and link you webmaster tools to your Google Analytics account.
      By taking those 2 steps you will have access to a broad range of statistics and tools to see exactly what is going on with your traffic.

      You will see where you traffic is coming from and how it has changed over time. You will also be able to see what is happening as users access your website, which pages have high bounce rates and which hold the most value. You see which type of traffic stays the longest, interacts the most and returns the most frequently.

      And that is just the tip of the iceberg.

      You will also be able to:
      Another free analytics tool that you install on your own server is Piwik, it is easy to setup and has a lot of great features too, including the ability to see data on individual visitors which isn't generally available on Google Analytics.

      Why guess when you could know?
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  • Profile picture of the author movemaker
    Bounce rate issue...

    Work on creating better content!

    Create content that solves a problem to keyword they may be searching. When a visitor stays on your website longer that lets the SEngine know that your content is valuable.

    Since your website lost noticeable traffic I'm sure that you were hit by an update. I recommend you checkout someone who I only share with people via PM. This guy gets killer and consistant results doing SEO!

    I'm sure he could solve your problem!

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  • Profile picture of the author trade4861
    They had a few updates at the beginning of last month, one was on the 7th, then the big one. Lots of people are in the same boat. Try getting high quality links to your site. How do you rank in Yahoo and Bing?
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  • Profile picture of the author DPM70
    Hi THpubs

    I was half expecting to see a spammy site with lots of dupe content but I don't think that's the issue and I don't think you've been hit by Panda. Your content looks pretty good. But you know that already!

    I see tons of sitewide links in your backlink profile. Many of which contain the same anchor (as sitewides usually do). Almost all of your anchor texts are to your site name: tech hamlet or somebody@techhamlet.com

    Added to that, your drop in traffic seems to coincide with the last Penguin 2.0 update. I'd say this is a penguin issue to do with your backlink profile. I'm no expert in this so I'd suggest searching for and through other threads here and elsewhere to see how you might be affected by penguin and how you might go about reversing or stabilising your rankings.
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    • Profile picture of the author dudeco
      Need some more info... I'd Google something like "Matt Cutts, what Google wants" and watch his Youtube videos explaining exactly what Google is looking for. How many inbound links do you have, and are they all using the exact same long-tail keyword? Could be as easy as creating some inbound link keyword diversity...

      You also haven't mentioned whether your SE rankings have dropped too. Did you drop from say, page 2 to page 10? Or are you just and simply talking traffic?
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  • Profile picture of the author PROmotions LLC
    I have a couple keywords that do this, for example that keyword some days I will be number 57 for it, then the next day I am not in the first 100, next day I am number 35, then two days later back to not being in the first 100. There are a lot of updates going on and once everything evens out (might take months) you should start seeing some stability in your rankings.

    A good thing to note:

    If you do any SEO (on or off page) only do 1 task, then wait a few days and see if that is what did it. A lot of people go crazy and get a lot of SEO done, mostly link building, then their rankings tank and they don't know what services were responsible. For the next month or so I would be careful what you do, and take note of when you performed that particular task, so you can better understand what is effecting your rankings.
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