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Site's traffic decline by 60% overnight. Please help

by thisismairaj
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Hello everyone,

Since 20th September 2017, my site's traffic has declined steadily by 60%. The site is authoritative and has only seen upwards growth for last 3-4 years of its existence. We have never had any issue with Google ranking, we produce quality content regularly and has never done any SEO on the site, beside the natural links we received.

We are infinitely grateful to Google for its services, for sending us traffic and helping monetize the site. We truly are.

Everything was alright, but then, since 20th September, our site's traffic has suddenly started declining. No, nothing major has been done on our side this month, no theme changes or Google policy infringements. None.

Could anyone please help us determine what's wrong? If this is some update hurting us, why did not us for the last 4 years? If this is manual, why we received no manual actions notification in Webmaster Tools. Please, someone, help us. You can check the site here: http://softstribe.com

Can you please help us rectify any mistakes if there are any?

Thank you.
#60% #decline #overnight #site #traffic
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Meaney
    Free traffic from Google is pretty sweet but it's not dependable.

    There might not be any problem with your site, the Google algorithm might have changed - they're constantly tweaking it without making any announcement, around 500 times a year.

    There might have been an update on the 16th.

    Or a competitor might have nudged you down the SERP's.

    Diversify your traffic sources so you don't put all your eggs in one basket.
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  • Profile picture of the author discrat
    Unfortunately, I hate say it but welcome to the World of Google.

    Believe we all have been hurt at one time or the other. It sucks. But you must adapt or die.

    Other means like high quality blog commenting and guest blogging


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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    Did your traffic drop from Google organic search or some other source? Do you track your rankings? Which keywords moved?

    Honestly, if you were ranking highly for a high volume keyword, a drop of just from #1 to #2 can cause that kind of traffic decrease. If you are not tracking it though, you will never know why your traffic dropped.
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  • Profile picture of the author jazbo
    Well my comment here would be this exact thread is on another big marketing forum right now and this thread smells like a link drop.
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    Any link to that thread?
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  • Profile picture of the author jbuk
    Over-optimized articles could be a possibility. Your keyword density is crazy. Just looking at a few sentences from one of your articles about Android apps for automobile insurance.

    Best Android Apps that will help you for Automobile Insurance

    Android apps for Automobile Insurance... Well, why would someone install Android apps for automobile insurance? Fair enough! By the way, I never needed any automobile insurance app in my Android phone but while I was browsing though comments on android APK website I found people looking for good automobile insurance Android apps. So, I thought to write an article about best Android apps that can help them find best automobile insurance services.

    This type of thing might have worked for ranking years ago but not today.
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  • Profile picture of the author EPoltrack77
    I lost a $500 a day business overnight with google back in the day. I don't blame them. Things move so fast in this industry and I didn't keep up with the terms. Live in learn.

    Your traffic could come back up! Really could be a number of things but it sounds like you do things properly and organically and nothing "black hat"
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  • Profile picture of the author celente
    I would not be surprised I had a website doing $200 a day and went to zero after panda updates.

    You must use paid marketing, bing, fb, press, link building. That would help you get your numbers back.

    i Do think organically it might take a few months, but you can get back to where you were.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mattsaas
    Run an audit on your website too see if there are any technical SEO errors you should be fixing, then take a look in Google Search Console to check for bad backlinks, or a decrease in indexed URLs.

    Both of these should point towards whats happening to your site. I've taken a quick look at your site - how much traffic was it getting before the drop?
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  • Profile picture of the author Sarataylor1
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    Which activities you do for your website?. Are you doing blogging on daily basis?? are you doing Social Bookmarking and Social Sharing on Daily basis?? Are you doing PDF Submissions on Daily Basis?? Are You Doing Blog Commenting on Daily Basis?? If you do all these things then your problem is internal linking. Because Google has doing hardness on daily basis.
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