I need help, in big trouble

Your question is too vague to get a meaningful answer...

How do we know what was your traffic source? And why did it dry up?
Why did the conversion rate also drop?

Too many unknown factors to even try to guess. You didn't tell the whole story.

You must first stress on your typing, Just read it yourself and try to find out if you cant sort out the problem? elaborate with the points below.

1. what was your traffic source?
2. What happened suddenly to your website?
3. your website link.
4. Conversion before and after.
5. And points to support your question.

You are not relying on Google for your traffic are you???

Are all your pages still indexed? Did you drop rankings? What was the exact day you saw the drop in traffic? Did you change anything before the drop, ANYTHING at all? Did you check Webmaster tools for any issues? Need more details.

Hi there,

Can you give us some more clue? More information? Have you changed anything lately? We can't really help you out without more info.

It could be Almighty Google playing tricks or something coming from you but until we get more info, we won't be able to see what might have gone wrong here!

Let us know.

Yoan

You can respond to this thread ASAP to get some solutions.

But I'm guessing you've been depending completely on Google and now your website is ranked lower so you've lost that traffic - never depend on a single source for your income.

First explain your question. Like traffic sources, free traffic or paid. Then you will find a lot of helpful answers here.

It seems like your traffic used to be organic. You probably lost your rankings on SERPs suddenly.

Sell the site.

Get rid of it and move on.

Use your earnings to create something new - and for goodness sake learn your lesson:

Relying on a search engine for your livelihood isn't smart business.

I am serious when I say dump the site if you can't find other more reliable ways to drive traffic.

Start contacting SEO's who also have their own suite of websites and make them an offer. Let them deal with the rankings.

If its the site in your sig I would only be guessing but I would say it could be because of some of the non-relevant spammy links that are linking back to your site...?

How did you traffic and sales suddenly drop? What were you doing before this to make money and get traffic?

My web site is emailrevealer.com. The links in my sig line.
I've mostly gotten my traffic from google and article marketing. But ezine stop approving my articles a couple years ago. So I let the articles lapse and just used my own blogs to genetate traffic.
I was able to suppliment my traffic with tv and radio appearances. I did a few eppisoe of Dr Drew and Nightline and some Tru TV HLN and a lot of radio and pocasts Internet radi stuff. I get lot of quick traffic and it converts to sales and even people will save the link and contact me weeks or months later.

The intervies I get now don't want to focuson my site and services, They want me to discus Jodi Aria nd George Zimmerman o I suspect the traffic I may get now is fr les targeted and less friendly because of the contraversial nture of the topics but that's all I cn really get booked on riht now without hiring a pes agent. I can't aford that.

You need to figure out then who the people that were coming through before were and find where else you can target them.

It seems to me you got hosed by the latest Google alg change though. You should probably clean up your backlinks and maybe try to find some new, more relevant ones. Do you have social presence? If so are you linking through to your site? Google seems to like Google+ (imagine that). Can you expand your services to get into new markets?

Dump your site. I hate yet to see someone who made a full recovery. Maybe start learning how to do PPC or how to acquire traffic from another source. I personally spent over five months trying to recover one of my sites only to watch it painfully have less and less traffic. DONT rely on Google.

I've been making a full time living from this site since 2003. Are you guys telling me that every site that old with old seo methods are now useless and need to be dumped? Sounds ridiculous to me.

Yes its legal, I'm a digital foensic investigator, I testify in death penalty trials as wee as a congressional investigation and hearing. I was involed in the Zimmerman case.

I have a youtube presense just from interviws and stuf but not really directly promoting my site.

Is that what they call hacking into peoples emails? :p

Seriously though if it's SEO traffic that's suddenly dropped, you haven't actually said it is or not yet, then you just need to find ways to replace that traffic using some / all / none of the methods I've mentioned above.

Your website looks really basic btw, ever considered a re-design?

My profession does not involve anything even remotely related to hacking.

Did you build a list?

BTW I've tried ppc in the past with some success but I'm afraid to risk an adwors campaign right now since my funds are so limmited this month.
For me PPC was expensive. I'm not selling an ebook or course. I'm attracting clients so once I get the client I still have to do the work so paying a lot to get that client is not a good stratedy for me,

When I saw your sig links, I assumed ( probably wrongly) that you were an affiliate for some of the spammy Clickbank products in the ex-back/phone lookup, etc niches.

Reading your posts, I suspect you are much more knowledgeable than that and you are actually selling your own services. I suspect that is where your problem lies. Google cannot distinguish between the site of a legitimate forensic investigator (yourself) and sites selling Clickbank products.

I think you need to reposition yourself in the market and re-assess how your website is written.

My own opinion is that onsite seo is the way to go these days. Have you thought of starting a brand new website, with a more professional appearance and approach and which Google might look more favourably on - as well as the TV/radio shows you want to appear on.

Don't diss the Zimmerman connection. You have it, like it or not, so think laterally and work out how you can legitimately use that on your new site to sell your services.

my google traffic also dropped off the shelf today... think they did an algorhythm update. Do you have duplicate content? My site is basically all duplicate content.

Just a quick question...

If you've been running since 2003 and relying solely on Free traffic, did you ever consider hiring or testing our campaigns for PPC which could in effect make you more profitable?

You might be out of pocket for a bit but a small investment to test some PPC campaigns could help you out in the long run but hard to say if you haven't tried this out before.

You definitely need to update your website and make it look more professional, it looks out dated and spammy.

You should make your connections to these big cases and TV appearances well known on your site...like really obvious so that people who land on the site know you're a big deal as soon as they land.

I'm actually surprised with your site in the current state that you made many sales, it's not a site that I would trust or buy from.

Just my opinion and I'm probably not your target market.

Seeing as your site is no longer ranking in the search engines you'll need to come up with an alternative traffic plan, there's no other option.

Also if you really don't have time to do the required marketing then it might be time to outsource.

It is clear you can no longer rely on google for your traffic. As you are in a specialized field you need to connect and link to professional bodies and associations in that sector.

As others have said you need to use the media angle too.

I would suggest you write an article something along the lines of "An Investigator In The Media Spotlight" highlighting some of the cases you have worked or commented on.
Offer it for free to some of the professional sites in your area of expertise making sure they link back to your site.
At least that way if you don't get more clients you might get some more media work.

This site might also be useful to you Free Publicity - Connecting Reporters and News Sources - Help a Reporter Out



Edit: Having searched for "Opperman Investigations" the first page of google brings up a WordPress Site and a Blogspot site that you run, this is then followed by two Rip-Off Reports about Emailrevealer. This will harm your business.

Seriously, I think it is time to hire a web design professional to build you a new website incorporating your business site and your blog. Then get a SEO professional to help get rid of the ripoff reports from page 1 of google.

You might not want to spend the money but the longer you wait more damage will occur.

For your particular service / blog I would suggest using Press Releases...

I want to thank you all for the advice. I really appreciae it. It reminds me of the old days when I could come here and Warriors banded together to help eachother out.
I've been hesitant to post on here much lately.





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