Sites dropped in Google

[deepsand]

Check out the visitor flow in your analytics and measure the drop off ratio. I think it will be help you for the measurement that where the visitors are drops and you will implement the strategics according to that.

How will that tell why potential visitors stayed away?

[Hiren]

How will that tell why potential visitors stayed away?

According that chart you can see the visitors behavior. Like you can generate the custom report that on which keywords the visitors are came. They might be not land on relevant page. I know this is not the perfect solution but you can start the initiative. At-least you will able to see the flow which is suitable or not and according to that you can do some surgery for your webpages.

[deepsand]

According that chart you can see the visitors behavior. Like you can generate the custom report that on which keywords the visitors are came. They might be not land on relevant page. I know this is not the perfect solution but you can start the initiative. At-least you will able to see the flow which is suitable or not and according to that you can do some surgery for your webpages.

To repeat, how will that tell why potential visitors stayed away?

Such data speaks only to those who visit; it is silent regarding those who do not.

[Mel]

Hi,
For years one of my sites is getting between 100 and 200 visitors a day from Google. Every now and then, this site suddenly only gets a few visitors, but after a few days the amount of visitors is back again. This happened again a few days ago, and normally I would not be worried about it. Only this time it happened to three of my sites at exactly the same time, and these three sites are all hosted at the same provider. My other sites, that are hosted at another provider, are not showing any change in the amount of visitors. Could this has anything to do with this particular provider, and should I be worried about it?

Since you have said that the site was not down during the period of low visitors I fail to see how it could have to do with your hosting company. Granted the fact that three sites with the same host dropped at the same time would make you wonder, but either your site is viewable or its not. I would sign up with one of the free site monitoring companies and have them monitor your site on an hourly basis just to be sure.

Did your rankings of these sites also drop? Am I correct in assuming that all of the sites are now back up to normal visitor levels?

[mukluknation]

When something like that happens I usually check my social bookmarking accounts like Digg and Reddit. It's easy to get banned on those sites and if you don't have enough accounts to spread out your risk, it could seriously impact your ranking. I've had 5 months worth of work completely wiped out on Digg before I started to manage multiple accounts at once.

[deepsand]

When something like that happens I usually check my social bookmarking accounts like Digg and Reddit. It's easy to get banned on those sites and if you don't have enough accounts to spread out your risk, it could seriously impact your ranking.

The OP clearly said "Every now and then, this site suddenly only gets a few visitors, but after a few days the amount of visitors is back again."

How would it be the case that being banned on social bookmarking site resulted such transient volatility?

[SteveB]

Hi,
For years one of my sites is getting between 100 and 200 visitors a day from Google. Every now and then, this site suddenly only gets a few visitors, but after a few days the amount of visitors is back again. This happened again a few days ago, and normally I would not be worried about it. Only this time it happened to three of my sites at exactly the same time, and these three sites are all hosted at the same provider. My other sites, that are hosted at another provider, are not showing any change in the amount of visitors. Could this has anything to do with this particular provider, and should I be worried about it?

On the surface, it appears related to your providers, but a few questions come to mind. Are these sites essentially designed alike and do they target the same demographic? I wouldn't be worried just yet, but I'd certainly keep a close watch for future trends.

[henk]

Hi,
thanks to everyone who tried to help me. There was no reason to worry, all three site are back to their old visitor levels. As I said this happens about once every six months, normally it lasts a few days, now it lasted a week and a half, that is the only difference. I did not change anything on these three sites during this period.

[deepsand]

... this happens about once every six months, normally it lasts a few days, now it lasted a week and a half, that is the only difference.

Seasonal fluctuations?