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My Site Traffic Has Dropped By Almost 50%...Has Yours?

by whitworldwide
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My visitor stats have dropped by nearly 50% over the last week or so. Most of my visitors are from the US.

Most visitors arrive at my site via Google.

Has anyone else had the same issue?

Thanks in advance...
#50%has #dropped #google #site #traffic
  • Profile picture of the author PBScott
    Several times, but not recently, wait a few weeks they will probably come back. Probably...
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  • Profile picture of the author Vector Graphics
    Are you doing anything Google would consider blackhat? Tactics like excessive link building or article spinning can get your sites penalized.

    It's really hard to tell without knowing more details about your situation.
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  • Profile picture of the author TheAdsenseGuy
    Keep in mind that kids are going back to school now. And the labor day holiday.

    My traffic has been lighter this past week. Will probably pick up starting Tuesday.
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    • Profile picture of the author whitworldwide
      Originally Posted by TheAdsenseGuy View Post

      Keep in mind that kids are going back to school now. And the labor day holiday.

      My traffic has been lighter this past week. Will probably pick up starting Tuesday.
      Yeah, I was thinking (hoping) it was something to do with this. Perhaps everyone enjoying themselves outdoors while on vacation/holiday etc.

      Hopefully it will pick up this week!
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  • Profile picture of the author alphaomegalady
    Yes, this has happened to my site. It happened because I get lazy doing SEO works but trying to revive it at the moment.
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  • Profile picture of the author pvijeh
    yeah, one of my sites took a huge dive in traffic over the past two weeks-- google updated their algo and is punishing me for some reason
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  • Profile picture of the author webprogramzone
    I am facing this problem quite often and then i try to update my site quite frequently by adding more and more contents which are unique and new to my site and I am getting back in track. But you should do it quite often
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  • Profile picture of the author soppnox123
    Ya even for my site also same issue occurred , what to do to get good rank within few time? please inform me good techniques to overcome this issue.
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
      Originally Posted by soppnox123 View Post

      Ya even for my site also same issue occurred , what to do to get good rank within few time? please inform me good techniques to overcome this issue.
      You only have 9 links in your signature. You will never rank that way. You must have at least 10. :rolleyes:
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  • Profile picture of the author A S M
    You might want to consider waiting a bit since there is still holidays and stuff... but big spikes like that can happen . My website too goes crazy on the charts . So , I wouldn't worry to much about it.

    Aris
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  • Profile picture of the author patco
    Are you sure your website was not hit by Penguin? Or Blacklisted in Google? Did you check:

    site: yourdomain.com

    If this is not the problem, then you should continue your SEO strategy and build a few quality backlinks, index them (you can ping those backlinks!) and wait for Google to index them!
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    • Profile picture of the author whitworldwide
      Well, another couple of weeks have passed and daily visitors are still down almost 50%. In fact on Friday I only got 133 visitors to me site!

      Ok. so I haven't added any more content to the site in about 62 months, but surely not adding content would not have such a detrimental affect on my visitor numbers??? Would it?
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      • Profile picture of the author whitworldwide
        Originally Posted by whitworldwide View Post

        Well, another couple of weeks have passed and daily visitors are still down almost 50%. In fact on Friday I only got 133 visitors to me site!

        Ok. so I haven't added any more content to the site in about 62 months, but surely not adding content would not have such a detrimental affect on my visitor numbers??? Would it?
        I meant 2 months, not 62 months, lol
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  • Profile picture of the author Earl Gray
    My mutually linked sites dropped for more than 90%! In Bing they are on the first or second place.
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  • Profile picture of the author topsint
    Just wait for some time don't be panic and do something unusual. Because Google is playing with algorithm and after august 14 i am seeing this panic every where in market.
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  • Profile picture of the author marketkidz
    Its a common problem for every webmasters sometimes traffic down drastically but if you add more contents and unique contents and market it well it will be again on the track
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  • Profile picture of the author emelef
    Unique, fresh content added regularly and genuine back links should keep google happy. But traffic can dip due to many reasons... ultimately you need to market and not rely purely on organic search traffic as you are then at the mercy of Google!
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  • Profile picture of the author Earl Gray
    Something serious is going on, there are blog posts where people are writing about getting unnatural link warnings for links from Yellowpages and DMOZ.

    I admit that I made links that are scheme for passing PR juice (no blackhat), which now is against the policies. But on the other hand, it seems that they banned almost every kind of links which is hilarious.

    I suppose Google will fix this update.
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  • Profile picture of the author challanger
    There are plenty of webmasters facing this problem. I have been looking multiple websites to find out the reason behind this but still unable to reach any logical/justifiable conclusion
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  • Profile picture of the author johnsmith789
    I think it might happened due to recent Google Update on 12th of this month. My website rankings and traffic is showing down. But, if you did good and quality SEO work then your traffic will come back soon.
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