Thread: 900% drop in traffic in one day - could it be our host?
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Old 11-17-2008, 07:59 PM
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Default Re: 900% drop in traffic in one day - could it be our host?
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Originally Posted by Oman View Post
Dave,

I hear what you're saying, but what's actually happening is that the search terms are the same. SERP are still giving us good rankings on our hot keywords and search phrases. It's just that the number of times our key words and search phrases are showing up in the SERP is less than a third of what it used to be. When they show, they're in the top ten. The issue is that they're only being displayed 30% of what they used to be displayed. It's as if I'm in an AdWords campaign and I'm being rotated with search returns.
August? Hmm, Could it be the result of Universal Search? That would to some extent answer the question as to where the searches are going. If you were in the top of fold you may have been pushed down the page or out altogether by OneBoxes, different media (images/videos) and sitelinks.
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