I dont know why but over the last 2 weeks my traffic has dropped 50%. It dropped around Febuary 27 and has been down since. At first I thought it might have been the Google update, but Ive checked all over Google and all my page serps seem fine. Cant find any problem. Bing and yahoo seem fine too. The website is not having any downtime. Any suggestions on what is happening?
Ok, I just found the problem, Its a google thing. I must have been hit in the latest update. I just checked my states and my google traffic is down 50%. But I cant see where. When I search around google all my pages seem fine. I just dont know why Im losing google traffic.
Ya, your problem could rely here google announces change noticeable impacts 11.8% search queries.
Also - have your backlinks gone down, or remained the same? How many hard links do you have? Meaning links on blogs, and on articles?
I’ve read the news about that google update. I think it will really affect a lot of sites when it comes to the number of traffic. You have to find new ways to increase your traffic again. Unfortunately. 
The website has been online 12 years, backlinks are fine, Page Rank is fine, website is fully indexed. Ive spent the last 4 hours doing key word searched on google and it actually seems Ive improved some positions. BUT…my google traffic is down 50%. I just cant see where Im losing the google traffic. Any ideas?
I didn’t faced anything like this and not even heard regarding such loss of traffic… Is your traffic is normal now??
Well, if its down, it means you lose some of your keywords - how were you tracking your rankings before? That should pinpoint you to the issue.
If you can identify the keywords that are bringing visitors,you can work further to strengthen them.May be there are new competitors in your niche doing better SEO…!!
It will be better to analyze the previous stats and recent one. That can clear the idea of why and for which terms did the traffic dropped. I am facing the same problem with traffic but overall when i check the traffic for the older posts that i have updated long back, are generating traffic.
It is due to recent change in Google Algorithm which effect around 11.8 percent search result. Even big sites like Ezine, hubpages etc…suffer a lot from this Google algorithm change. So don’t worry this is something happen with hundreds of others , just like you.
Nearly all of the websites with many content pages, and most of them copied materials from other sources such as article directory portals, are found suffering from the recent Google ranking update. Other established sites with their own original copies of contents still seem to be dominating their niches and markets as they are valid.
The discussion of mini sites losing ranks is an old issue and since some years ago, Google began lowering values of websites primarily created for ad publishing purposes, all containing very short texts copied from other spots.
On the contrary, what is you are saying is not correct. Take a close look at the google webmaster support forum from the websites that are complaining and ALL of them are original content. Another thing is that most of them are older established websites, many were around before google. My website was around before google so how can google know who had the content first? When did they actually start keeping recorded copies of everyones content? And if they do then they are in breach of copyright laws. Which one is it?
Google says their getting rid of website scrappers that scrap other peoples content…do a search on google and nearly all the top spots are held by the internets biggest scrapper…Wikipedia. Why is google not taking action against the internets biggest scrapper but penalizing others?
Matt Cutts from google says dont scrape, but look in a recent statement of his that says the farmer update is about giving prioroty to websites that use references, so does that mean its good to scrape as long as you use a reference for where you scrapped it?
Google says they want to give priority to websites that are an Authority on the subject they write about…Go and do a search on google for the following term, “Cardiac Surgery”…notice how wikipedia comes up in the number 1 position…now a 5 year old kid can join wikipedia as an editor and edit that article…tell me, since when is a 5 year old an Authority on Cadiac surgery?
Tell me, which one is it? Because google are being hypocrites, they have different rules for different websites. They are all over the place. There statements conradict each other.
Have a read here of how google used the farmer update to shut down their competition…[Google Farmer Update Slaps Google Shopping Competitors growmap.com/farmer-update-google-competitors
you’re kidding yourself if you really believe this
wikipedia comes up high in search results because it has quality content, and wikipedia content is most assuredly ~not~ scraped
remember, content is king
On the contrary, Wikipedia is certainly not quality, more like a bad joke. Thats why Universities and schools BAN students from quoting wikipedia, because its junk content, biased, flawed, manipulated and unfactual.
Just to prove the point, 5 days ago I posted some 70 edits on wikipedia which in fact I know are wrong, even used citations that had nothing to do with my edit, and yet all my edits are still there, probably most will still be there in 3 months, and probably 3 years from now. Yet hey…your telling me its high quality. As I said, its a bad joke content website that is mostly just scrapped from other websites, They have scrapped plenty of my content and not once did they ever ask me.
you sound very bitter, i am sorry that you had such a bad experience
This is the reason why wikipedia has been kept open source. Its because that if someone finds your scrap content, then he can make changes to it and correct it. Not all netizens would want others to read wrong info.
Sorry for being rude…
Google is update till last month there for Google Change algorithm that is why your site traffic down…
Schools ban the use of Wikipedia because schools would be out of work, if we realize all we need is Wikipedia to learn.
Wikipedia has good content, and bad content, just like some book editors have good writers, and bad writers, and some history book editors have writers that can be bought to hide the truth, and misinform, so don’t blame Wikipedia, blame yourself, all of us homo sapiens for not providing real good true content.
Your posts will be seeing by some other Wikipedia editor, and eventually deleted (fast!), which in the publishing world it is known as errata, and you have to wait for a second edition of a book for the writer to apologize for what was first misprinted. That is, if there is ever a second edition. If no second edition, you are stuck with wrong information unlike Wikipdia that as you say will probably be corrected in 3 months or faster. Correct me, if I am wrong r937?
If your content was in fact scraped, well you are really ignorant for not suing Wikipedia as they should mention your site as a source. I have a couple of sites that date to 1999, and they are both mentioned with source on Wikipedia, I get no link juice from them, but some times, I get some visitors directly from Wikipedia because my sites are being cited.
What is the website? If the content is as good as you say, or better than mother Wiki, I promise you a couple of one way links. FREE And probably all Sitepoint forum members will give you a link too, if content deserves it of course.
Use site Google trends and check your primary keyword search. (Whether the search decreases or increase or constant) Also check search of previous year. May be search is decreases. If not then you should check ranking of your keywords and quality of content.