Howdy,

On or about August 6th, our PR dropped from a 5 to a 3 and in Google Analytics, we went from an average(over the past 5 years) of 2,500 unique visitors per day to anywhere between 300 and 500 per day. Much to our dismay, it's stayed that way ever since.

I pulled a report from July 1st through Oct. 1st. Here's a screenshot of my dashboard for that report:

http://www.myfootshop.com/images/goo...raffic_dro.jpg

One would tend to think that either we were penalized by Google or we fell victim to an algorithm change. We're pretty much straight shooters in terms of our white hat/black hat methods. So I doubt that we've been penalized.

The plot thickens.....We also run 123 Log Analyzer on our server. Much to our surprise, we found that our server stats also dropped off on the same date. The character of the logs remains unchanged in terms of entry/exit pages, time spend by folks browsing, etc. The only tid bit we could pull from our server logs that had changed was that there's been fewer types of browsers being used to browse our site. But IE is still tops and is present in the list of browsers.

Nothing has changed on our website and we're struggling to understand what may have been the source of such a dramatic and rapid drop in our stats. One question that still remains is our host. Is anyone familiar with how a host may influence your stats? We have our own dedicated server but keep it at a secure remote site with a professional hosting company. Any chance that our host could have made changes that could be the source of our problems?

Thanks.

Jeff
Myfootshop.com