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Huge number of Search Traffic Loss But Why?

by akif
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Hello,

Guys, please help me out. my friend's website has suffered major traffic loss in last 5-6 months. traffic was crashed from 800,000 to 380,000.
they've never been involved in any black hat techniques. Kindly suggest me what's gone wrong with the site?

Site url is designzzz.com Google have stated that this website is fine but i can't figure it out why the sudden drop of traffic? Experts here? please advise

Thanks in advance.
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  • Profile picture of the author briantymes
    Google is constantly changing how they rank websites. It sounds like he is going through the Google dance where other sites are now out ranking his in the search engines. Even people who have never done anything wrong can end up having these problems with their sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author vdek
    Competition probably. All of your articles are also obviously written by non native English speakers, little grammatical and structural errors everywhere.
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  • Profile picture of the author ilee
    Why don't you check the keywords that you WERE ranking for and compare your serp rankings currently.

    More than likely your website is losing traffic because of dropping rank because there's competitors beating you for the keywords. Check the serps and see wagwan.

    It's either that or less people are searching for the keywords, which is unlikely...
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    • Profile picture of the author ayazmalik
      Originally Posted by ichl13 View Post

      Why don't you check the keywords that you WERE ranking for and compare your serp rankings currently.

      More than likely your website is losing traffic because of dropping rank because there's competitors beating you for the keywords. Check the serps and see wagwan.

      It's either that or less people are searching for the keywords, which is unlikely...
      Hey, thanks for the time. i have been getting alerts in GW that traffic decreased significantly for xxx url. multiple urls that is. and if you consider last 30 days. its turned into something like this :
      -35% drop in search traffic/clicks in last 30 days..
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  • Profile picture of the author tech84
    Originally Posted by akif View Post

    Hello,

    Guys, please help me out. my friend's website has suffered major traffic loss in last 5-6 months. traffic was crashed from 800,000 to 380,000.
    they've never been involved in any black hat techniques. Kindly suggest me what's gone wrong with the site?

    Site url is designzzz.com Google have stated that this website is fine but i can't figure it out why the sudden drop of traffic? Experts here? please advise

    Thanks in advance.
    Were the drop in rankings sudden? I mean just now?

    If so, i do not know why.


    but if you say it dropped in the past few months it means it has been hit with either the Panda and Penguin updates or both (and also possibly the EMD update)
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    • Profile picture of the author ayazmalik
      Hiz, its been slowly dropping. from 15-18K daily its now at 8K avg and continously going down.
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      • Profile picture of the author leighs31
        You should have something like getclicky or webmaster tools implemented so you can see the trends. Google is fluctuating with local search at the moment so if you ranked high in US, UK, Australia etc you could have been hit by some sites coming in the local rankings with .co.uk address etc.

        This is why you should be tracking your visitors. If you are still ranking high for your target country then you are probably getting the visitors Google things you need.

        Where your site is situated on your server determines whether Google will rank you or not. So if you have a UK based server you will rank better in the UK. You can change this in webmaster tools.

        So check whether you are ranking for your keywords and then if you need to target different countries, you will have to setup pages relative to that geography.

        If your not ranking top then do some more backlinking. Hope this helps you buddy
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        • Profile picture of the author ayazmalik
          Originally Posted by leighs31 View Post

          You should have something like getclicky or webmaster tools implemented so you can see the trends. Google is fluctuating with local search at the moment so if you ranked high in US, UK, Australia etc you could have been hit by some sites coming in the local rankings with .co.uk address etc.

          This is why you should be tracking your visitors. If you are still ranking high for your target country then you are probably getting the visitors Google things you need.

          Where your site is situated on your server determines whether Google will rank you or not. So if you have a UK based server you will rank better in the UK. You can change this in webmaster tools.

          So check whether you are ranking for your keywords and then if you need to target different countries, you will have to setup pages relative to that geography.

          If your not ranking top then do some more backlinking. Hope this helps you buddy
          Thanks a lot for the suggestions bro, currently i haven't set any specific target country in my google webmasters, is it bad? i thought of it to be open for all countries.

          i haven't ever done backlinking till date, been naturally growing since last 3 years. this could be the reason i guess.
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          • Profile picture of the author leighs31
            I would say that is a drop regionally buddy - I have seen drops like this on some sites and it is purely because the rankings have dropped in different countries.

            If you notice when you log into google now it diverts to your local google.co.uk etc you have to change it to google.com and the rankings differ per country.Some of the bigger brands have now taken over and also ads have taken up a lot of space in certain countries. The only way yu can tell this by looking at the stats to be honest. Or using something like HMA and logging into different countries and seeing where you rank.

            You need to look at whether it is a drop in rankings or a drop in traffic. If you have dropped in rank hence the traffic decrease
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  • Profile picture of the author kaytav
    Definitely looks like a case of Google Dance. Also please check whether the keywords are in ranking or not. If the keywords also have lost rankings, then it could be a Google dance.
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