Help me figure out Google
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I have a website with really really good content in a not so medium-competitive niche, I'm confident that the content is great because I get emails all the time from visitors thanking me and literally telling me I'm a genius - another indicator are the stats that Google Analytics gives me about my bounce rate and average time on site - plus I get a bunch of direct traffic as if people were telling each other "go check out that website".
... so after some time, Google starts ranking me better, and get's me to #2 place for a keyword that is not my main keyword but almost the same, example: how to lose weight is my main keyword - well I'm ranked #2 for how to lose weight fast - similar situation. Anyway - this brings me in a bunch of traffic, I even get ranked #4 for my main keyword on Yahoo - but that brings in close to zero traffic. Anyway... a few weeks pass, and then... Google put's me to the 5-6 position for every major keyword I was well ranked for and literally cuts my traffic to half - from 1300 visitors per day to 500! Which is kind of a shock. I thought "okay, they'll get me back up in a day or two, that's probably normal" - nope, they didn't. So I'm kind of angry, but I'll figure it out, I guess, with your help.
What I know is - a) I didn't change my content b) traffic was steadily going up from week to week with Google ranking me better c) and then suddenly bam!
So I sometimes ask myself "IS GOOGLE STUPID???" - by the way there are so many website's out there that are well ranked - but anyone can see that they are NOT SUPPOSED to be on top. The website's competing for my main keyword - top 10 - each and every one of them is at least 10 times worse then my website - I know, I know - they're older, yes, some of them have more links - but some of them don't. So how the hell does Google decide to rank them better? Or rank me worse, 'cause they sure as hell don't have an average time on site as long as I do and it would be complete nonsense if Google doesn't take that into a huge consideration.
Sorry for a bit of a rant, but I guess you'd be pissed too...
Thanks
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