Traffic death...any ideas?

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Hi all!

Well I've made a website and its #3 on google below wikipedia and images...
It was getting steady traffic since it was seo'd and going good!

The problem is, is that the past three days it's had 0 visitors! usually it gets a minimum of 10 or so...

It's on a topic which is a problem.. so will always get searched!

Any ideas why people decided not to click on mine after all this time? I can still see the website on Google too! Thanks!
#deathany #ideas #traffic
  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    I was going to say: there hasn't been a "death" thread since late last night. "Traffic death" ... I like it.

    I suspect from your comments above, though, that the total search volume for the keyword for which it ranks in third position may be small enough for no visits over 3 days to be within its normal variability/standard deviation? Bear in mind that 3,000 searches per month, for example, isn't really going to be 100 per day: there can easily be days with as few as 10, and the site in third position may not get a click on those days?
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  • Profile picture of the author cashcow
    I cant tell from your post, but it sounds like the main page of your site is at #3 which it has been and traffic has dropped.

    But you don't say what page the traffic was coming in on. Was it all coming in on your main page or is there perhaps some other pages on the site where the traffic was coming in on and those have dropped in the SERPS?

    How much is "steady" traffic? Were you getting hundreds of visitors a day and then none or just a couple?

    Could it be seasonal?

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  • Profile picture of the author cashcow
    And they were all entering the site on the home page? That's strange then, I have no idea why that would be. Did you check the rank in scroogle to make sure it really is still #3 and not just because you are logged in to google?
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by cashcow View Post

      Did you check the rank in scroogle to make sure it really is still #3 and not just because you are logged in to google?
      This is my next question, too. (Yes, the figures are strange, then.)
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  • Profile picture of the author schttrj
    Originally Posted by craig crawford View Post

    Hi all!

    Well I've made a website and its #3 on google below wikipedia and images...
    It was getting steady traffic since it was seo'd and going good!

    The problem is, is that the past three days it's had 0 visitors! usually it gets a minimum of 10 or so...

    It's on a topic which is a problem.. so will always get searched!

    Any ideas why people decided not to click on mine after all this time? I can still see the website on Google too! Thanks!
    I would like to check your site. What's the site and what's the keyword?
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  • Profile picture of the author Brian Lett
    Hi Craig,

    If you were only getting 10 visitors or thereabouts, ranked #3 in Google for a keyword which is searched 10,000 per month, chances are that you may not have actually be ranked #3 in Google, as suggested by Lee and Alexa above.

    Try checking your rankings in either:

    seoserp (dot) com "or" rankingcheck (dot) com
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  • Profile picture of the author Jack Duncan
    Craig,
    Just a couple of thoughts that may help you find the issue...

    1. Have you cleared your cookies to make sure that the site is indeed ranked at #3?

    2. Can you check your stats and see where your visitors usually come from...and if they are from the U.S., have you logged in with a VPN to see if the U.S. serps have changed for you. With the Google update, it's very possible that your new site took a nose dive over the last 3 days (U.S. Traffic)

    3. If you have analytics installed, see if you can locate the 20% of keywords that drive 80% of your traffic...and then check to see if you slid in rankings for those terms.

    4. If you can locate the biggest referral sites to your domain, see if those pages have taken a dive in the last few days. (Particularly any EZA, Hub, or Squidoo pages you may have built. )

    Wish you the best,
    Jack Duncan
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