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by Stefan Pylarinos
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#dropping #google #overnight #traffic
  • Profile picture of the author Tiffan Meloney
    check your keywords and see whats up. If you see no movement then idk what to say?
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  • Profile picture of the author retsek
    Check the positions of your keywords in the Google Result pages. You may have dropped a bit, or completely out. Did you add new backlinks recently? Have competing pages passed you?
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    • Profile picture of the author ezinerebel
      If your site has been "stagnant" - as in sitting pretty in the serps, it is often a common mistake that website owners make as they leave the site alone thinking it will always do well.

      With all the competion online today and people looking for successful niches it doesn't take much effort to push other sites off the first page of say Google, if the residing site(s) don't have too many inbound links. There are other factors that can come into play also.

      If your site did well for months then there is no reason why it cannot do so again, but it would mean you promoting your site so it can erobe it's lost ground and you can get back any lost earnings. It can be done.
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  • Profile picture of the author commoditytrainer
    You would have to have the data from GWT and also Analytics to make a determination of the site dropping in the Serps. If you could provide more information that would be helpful.
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  • Profile picture of the author alcymart
    In 1 word... "Competition"! There could be some dancing, but "competition is affecting all of us. Don't take anything for granted with SE's. There are more "Downs" than "Ups" lately.

    You have to continue building up those backlinks and keep doing what you always did. Make sure that you didn't make any abrupt changes in the last month. Never fix what isn't broken.

    The good news as that if you haven't made any major changes to your SEO, things will sort themselves out in a week or two.

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    • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
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      Google rolled out an update to panda last week. If you had a fall off from then and its related to that update (may not be - might just be coincidental) then the site will not be coming back. It would be more than a dance.

      Hard to tell. If you need more specific input and you don't want to expose your site or keywords (which you shouldn't on an open board) then you can PM me and I will take a look at it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ross Cohen
    My advice is keep shelling out the best content you can. Do what you've been doing, obtaining backlinks from authority sites, writing quality posts on your site and elsewhere, and don't do anything Google wouldn't like. You should after some time start to grow back up faster then faster then faster and hopefully back or above where you were.
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  • Profile picture of the author Targeted Traffic
    Be sure to check for search engine traffic, and even more specifically Google non-paid traffic.

    Most websites get a lot of Google traffic from people who've typed some version of the name of their company as their search query. You'll want to note whether those visitors have significantly increased or decreased. If you receive fewer visitors for your brand, this could be caused by a decrease in marketing and advertising. Once you make note of the brand traffic, you'll want to filter it out so you can study actual keyword traffic, which is what real SEO traffic consists of.
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  • Profile picture of the author MaverickUK
    May well be Google dance (the modern day interpretation of it anyway). I have an authority site that ranks in the top 5 for a super competitive keyword and then another week it could be on page 2. Sadly it happens but you should probably check what keywords people are reaching your site via.
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  • Profile picture of the author Trivum
    Panda.

    (Search it. I'd bet $1,000 that's your problem.)
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  • Profile picture of the author Trivum
    Although you didn't have that much traffic to begin with, you don't suddenly drop to 5% of your traffic unless it's a change on Google's end (i.e. Panda). The only other thing would be server issues, robot's text issues, etc. ... Things don't just drop off the table like that otherwise.
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  • Profile picture of the author ebusinessireader
    Your Host down frequently, or not?

    Do not forget to check this.
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  • Profile picture of the author Stefan Pylarinos
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    • Profile picture of the author marvelouz
      Originally Posted by LifestyleTrans View Post

      OK - if it is a case of Panda, what steps should I take?

      For example, should I copyscape all the articles my outsourcer wrote and then re-write all the duplicate content ones?

      The majority of my backlinks are from Article Directories - so I don't believe the Panda update would affect those backlinks, unless it considers EzineArticles and all those ones to be "low quality backlinks".

      I've bought some backlinks on this forum, too - such as the Hoist Package.

      And I've also bought Linkwheels in the past from linkwheels.com (they claim in their FAQ and through e-mail that they've made updates to ensure their linkwheels and quality of backlinks meet the Panda guidelines).

      So, any advice on what I *CAN* do now?

      Build Links to your site.........Create fresh unique content and update it 3/4 times a week for a month that should help
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  • Profile picture of the author sbleaking
    maybe someone is bidding on your keywords?
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  • Profile picture of the author design2convert
    May be same IP were used by users, or from same location.
    What is the method you were applying to get traffic?
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  • Profile picture of the author John Maddy
    Check your keywords buddy? I guess its cox of Google Panda.
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    • Profile picture of the author TopSEOTool
      Do you use Google's Webmaster Tools? It sounds unlikely that broken pages or a broken xml sitemap is the cause, but would be worth checking on just to be sure.

      Also it should give you some info on any other issues/errors when Google's bot crawls/indexes your pages.
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  • Profile picture of the author grandfaraone1
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    check you site second Panda Laws.
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  • Profile picture of the author Gary Ning Lo
    Did you check your keywords..

    What are the results?

    Cheers,

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  • Profile picture of the author clever7
    You need very good content written by real writers. Google is giving special attention to original and helpful content.

    If you can spend some money, you should hire a good ghostwriter, at least for a while.




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  • Profile picture of the author JamesGw
    Sounds like you were hit with some sort of penalty. Check your anchor text.
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  • Profile picture of the author harvz111
    hi im having the same trouble here. my site is a couple of months old and was getting about 100-150 average hits per day, now it just dropped to 15-30 hits / day. im not sure what's going on but i came across this on their support page - google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35769#2

    "Allow search bots to crawl your sites without session IDs or arguments that track their path through the site. These techniques are useful for tracking individual user behavior, but the access pattern of bots is entirely different. Using these techniques may result in incomplete indexing of your site, as bots may not be able to eliminate URLs that look different but actually point to the same page."

    im logging my visitors ip including ip from bots and when you select a city i only set a session to query the current page without changing its url . are any of these features one of the causes for my traffic drop?

    i really have no idea why the sudden drop maybe you guys can shed some light on this

    here's my website btw, buzzednow.com

    thanks
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