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Large Traffic Drop Sep 13th/14th - Any Ideas?

by bcmwp
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Hi everyone,

I have a blog that got hit with a large traffic drop on Sept 13th-14th. I've never done any backlinking or anything for it.

Was there some sort of update at that point? I'd like to get some sense of what happened, so that I could fix it.
#13th or 14th #drop #ideas #large #sep #traffic
  • Profile picture of the author godoveryou
    Yes, according to my research that was exactly when Hummingbird dropped.

    Take note of the second traffic graph that shows a very significant drop on the 14th, with some recovery but not full by any means.
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  • Profile picture of the author tdanz
    Was you traffic coming from Google? which source dropped? if organic traffic then check in ahrefs.com if you lost some backlinks.
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  • Profile picture of the author tdanz
    Oh i just checked and thats when one of my sites came back from google penalty to page 1. maybe there was something going on..
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Originally Posted by bcmwp View Post

    I've never done any backlinking or anything for it.
    Maybe that's the problem?

    You need authority coming from somewhere.

    Quality link building isn't a bad thing, building crappy links is what's bad.
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  • Profile picture of the author bcmwp
    Very interesting. This is just my personal blog, not a commercial one, but I was wondering what explained the drop.

    Fortunately, it sounds like this isn't a penalty, like Panda or Penguin. It's just that Hummingbird doesn't like me. Oh well, that's easy enough to fix. Thanks.
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