Google region SERP flip flop?
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Come mid april, on one particular day, my US traffic/ranking dropped off the map, and at the same time it rose dramatically in australia, literally like an on/off lightswitch. For e.g. 2-400 visits per day from the US to zero, and zero visits from australia to 60 or so.
My site is a .com, hosted in the US. I had made one small area geo ip targeted, but if google spidered from the US it would get us content, and if from australia, australian content (and so on for other countries). i.e. it conforms to google anti-cloaking guidelines as far as I'm aware.
I did several things like setting webmaster tools to undefined or blank, as well as backlinking with US specific text to see if google woke up. I even removed the geo-ip targeting to try and alleviate it.
Its been nearly 3 weeks and still I have almost zero google US traffic.
I didnt set it to US in Google WMT because I didnt want to loose the rest of my global traffic (the site is international). I still get a moderate amount of traffic globally, but I am really annoyed with the weird labeling of the site in googles results.
Has anyone seen similar effects before, and if so how did you fix it?
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