Sudden drop in traffic to my site

[naveen_reloaded]

Hi guys i am running a site say blog...

prev week i had a average of 1.5k visitors (source : google analyticals ) .. and prev week i dodnt update my blog..
this week its hit a low of ju8st 200 ... for the past 4 days ... wht could be the reason..??

more over .. my main source of traffic were thru google ( organic )[source : google analytical]

wht could be the reason...??

wht should i do ???

please help..

[victor_rambo]

Did you lose SERPs?
There was a recent page rank update.

[naveen_reloaded]

serp`s ???

i dont know .. but i know that before my page rank was 0 but now its 1

[victor_rambo]

And was your site down or something?

SERPS = Search Engine Ranking pages

[naveen_reloaded]

no.. its actuaaly on blolgspot....

[mayanks_098]

Whoa...great coincidence.
You know i also had a unbelievable drop in traffic,almost during the same period.
Almost exactly the same thing happened to me,only difference,mine was worse.
I was doing at ~2.1k/week and suddenly it dropped to ~300/week.Now its picking up again. I too could not guess what was happening.


Anybody else.

[remrow]

you see it could probably happen when you don't upadate your blog or website frequently. When a user views your website/blog for the first time he may have found a good post and read it. And when the user comes back the other day for more he gets the same content that was yesterday. So if that lasts more days then he will get bored and get off your website/blog.

So this could be the reason of the drop of the website traffic.
More reasons might be less publicity, commenting problems, and more to go then http://problogger.com .

[naveen_reloaded]

no i dont think sooo its the case..

coz just for eg... my site which recieves 1,700 visits a DAY !!! now for the past three-four days recieves only <500 visits/day!!!!

i dont get it...

anyone having same problem...???

[Faun]

my blog get 100 hits on an avg
Dunno why it has pagerank 4 ?
I post once in a blue moon

[naveen_reloaded]

i think page ranks are given coz of quality of the post....

mine mostly are cut and copy ( dont blame me.. i find little time to write a article .. so i C& P )

thats why mine is @ 1

anyway.. any news guys ?? why this happened to many ??? or say for two of us @ sam time

[ravi_9793]

What is source of major portion of your site traffic. Is it search engine??

[victor_rambo]

Page Rank is given depending upon the no. of backlinks the page has. Quality of backlinks also matters

[ravi_9793]

Pagerank doesnot matter much. Its traffic that matters. I can make PR3 of any site in 3 months.

[naveen_reloaded]

yes i as said my 80% of traffic is from google search engine ( organic )
ie = nearly 1000 visita/ day

but now for past few days ... that 80% is reduced dramatically....

wht shall i do... its affecting my adsense review.. very badly...

actually am posting many articles now... to make up for my lost traffic...

any suggestion or solution ???

[iMav]

ThinkDigit does have some really well written articles worth reading

[naveen_reloaded]

ya thanks for the link... but all iam asking is why is it now when i was having this 1.5+k visitors for past 5-6 months ???

http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/3639486-3-30.htm

more similar people having this problem....

[ravi_9793]

Originally Posted by naveen_reloaded

yes i as said my 80% of traffic is from google search engine ( organic )
ie = nearly 1000 visita/ day

but now for past few days ... that 80% is reduced dramatically....

wht shall i do... its affecting my adsense review.. very badly...

actually am posting many articles now... to make up for my lost traffic...

any suggestion or solution ???

Is your site new???

[naveen_reloaded]

having it for past 4-5 months...

why ??

[ravi_9793]

Originally Posted by naveen_reloaded

having it for past 4-5 months...

why ??

4-5 months old website should not have any problem.

Google has a policy to blacklist new sites. if your site is new, and gets large amount of traffic, than google may blacklist your site.

[naveen_reloaded]

is there a way to check if my site is black listeed...

coz mine is aboiut tricks/ tips/ hacks.. that sort of...

wht should i do now ????

[Kiran.dks]

Originally Posted by naveen_reloaded

i think page ranks are given coz of quality of the post....

mine mostly are cut and copy ( dont blame me.. i find little time to write a article .. so i C& P )

thats why mine is @ 1

anyway.. any news guys ?? why this happened to many ??? or say for two of us @ sam time

Nope. Quality of posts have no influence on Page Rank. It is indication of number of backlinks to your website. More the number of backlinks, higher will the page rank.

[slugger]

cud it be possible that some other site on the same subject has acquired a higher PR than yours and so now when people search for those keywords for which your site appeared higher now get to see that site first?

since they are gettting all d info from that site they r not clicking on your anymore

if u r usin google's webmaster's tool then you could see your sites rankin for keywords typed in the search engine - if it has gone down this month compared to last months then u are likely to have lesser visits

[victor_rambo]

Can you give us the URL to your site?

[Faun]

Originally Posted by Kiran_tech_mania

Nope. Quality of posts have no influence on Page Rank. It is indication of number of backlinks to your website. More the number of backlinks, higher will the page rank.

Does back link is directly proportional to the promotion of website ?
In that case I havent promoted mine till now, and there is one website which has just two posts and is having PR 3

[victor_rambo]

You may be having some strong backlinks of which you may be unaware.

[Deep]

Check the site in Google Webmasters' section and see whats up there, pass the site address so people can check more info on it.

Originally Posted by ravi_9793

4-5 months old website should not have any problem.

Google has a policy to blacklist new sites. if your site is new, and gets large amount of traffic, than google may blacklist your site.

I don't see why google should blacklist the site if it's getting more traffic? No logic there, the issue could be with some bad stuff / script in the code or good old sandbox or bad backlinks.. as mentioned earlier google webmaster section should give more info on it.

[naveen_reloaded]

No guys it seems google is playing with the page ranking system...as the link i gave you prev from webmaster.. You can see loads of people or site owners having problem...
Doesnt anyone having the same problem...

But my traffic grou increasing a bit...how to say whether its blacklisted or not?
My site shows in the search result and neither have problems with google crawlers or bots...

[ravi_9793]

Originally Posted by Deep

I don't see why google should blacklist the site if it's getting more traffic? No logic there, the issue could be with some bad stuff / script in the code or good old sandbox or bad backlinks.. as mentioned earlier google webmaster section should give more info on it.

there is a logic dear. There are few blackhat SEO methods...and Google is well aware about it. And that is why, I never do much SEO of my new launched sites.

[slugger]

TOTALLY OFFTOPIC

@ Deep

nice sounding domain name u got www.whoisdeep.com

conveys a lot of meaning

[victor_rambo]

@naveen,
if your site is shows up in results, it is not blacklisted. So be happy.

Do this:
1. Open your google analytics and see which keywords brought traffic to your site.
2. Enter those keywords and see at what position is your site.

If your position has dropped down, this may be the reason.

Also consider the possibility that there might not have been as much searches for those words as they were before. This is common.