| Sudden drop in traffic.. again | lboth | 6/12/10 7:45 PM | I have read the FAQs and checked for similar issues: YES My site's URL is: http://www.topcountrymusicvideos.com Description (including timeline of any changes made): I've been working hard on my website daily, since October, 2009. Pages/posts number |
| Re: Sudden drop in traffic.. again | seo101 | 6/12/10 8:09 PM | What about the crosslinking from your other site? Not a good idea |
| Re: Sudden drop in traffic.. again | lboth | 6/12/10 8:22 PM | I have rel="no follow" on the link to my other site (which I just added to it recently). I am building a group of related music websites that are all under one main business entity. Crosslinking from one site to another to bring visitors from one own |
| Re: Sudden drop in traffic.. again | lboth | 6/12/10 8:23 PM | If the 2 owned sites were not related, I could see how this may not be a good idea, but the sites are both music related. Thoughts? |
| Re: Sudden drop in traffic.. again | Autocrat | 6/12/10 8:30 PM | |
| Re: Sudden drop in traffic.. again | lboth | 6/13/10 8:51 AM | Traffic Varies: I understand traffic will vary. I've checked recent search trends using Google Insights for Search for keywords in which my site is typically found using, and the trends have not lowered to account for the recent dip I've experienced, |
| Re: Sudden drop in traffic.. again | Autocrat | 6/13/10 11:44 AM | Well - for someone that said they don';t know what to look at/for ... ... that was preet damn fine :D Okay... 2 bits caught my eye. 1) You are using GWMT for Ranking Information. I don't recommend you rely on that ... the data is often a little slo |
| Re: Sudden drop in traffic.. again | lboth | 6/13/10 1:19 PM | Thanks. I got your initial reply last night but after reading it I figured I better make sure I checked everything you mentioned before I posted back, hence the reply today after checking. I just checked also using Analytics and it is showing the sa |
| Re: Sudden drop in traffic.. again | Autocrat | 6/13/10 1:36 PM | "... I figured I better make sure I checked everything you mentioned before I posted back, hence the reply today after checking. ..." Couldn't ask for more than that. Even if you failed to understand/find anything - so long as you try ... that's all |
| Re: Sudden drop in traffic.. again | lboth | 6/13/10 2:11 PM | Thanks for your help. |
| Re: Sudden drop in traffic.. again | JohnMu | 6/14/10 5:46 AM | Hi lboth and welcome to the forum! Looking through your site, I noticed two issues: - Many of your pages seem to be focused on a video from YouTube. For me, it feels a bit weird for search engines to send users to your site when the users are actua |
| Re: Sudden drop in traffic.. again | lboth | 6/14/10 7:04 AM | Hi John, thank you for your reply. -I have to agree, that many (the majority) of the pages on my site are focused on music video(s) from YouTube as my site is designed to help share and promote the musicians music. And I also understand how it may s |
| Re: Sudden drop in traffic.. again | Autocrat | 6/14/10 8:01 AM | Well - you may want to look into ways to do "more". As kind of covered in the "I havea directory" topic ... if you aren't doing more to stand out, there is little reason for your site to rank highly. Why not introduce Bio's etc. in the Gallery pages |
| Re: Sudden drop in traffic.. again | lboth | 6/14/10 8:25 AM | Great ideas Autocrat. Thanks. I'll add them to my "idea's to implement" list (or should I say stack?). Thanks again. |
| Re: Sudden drop in traffic.. again | Autocrat | 6/14/10 8:28 AM | Well - you need to prioritze that stack, and start implementing (sooner = better). So you have to sort it based on Usefullness vs. Ease of application. I general go on a tic-tac path .... taking one from each list :D (Easy first, then a mroe difficu |
| Re: Sudden drop in traffic.. again | lboth | 6/23/10 6:55 AM | I have an additional question relating to this thread- I had added my rel="nofollow" to the links to my "other related sites" that I own, yet those links are still showing up as links to my sites. Shouldn't adding the rel="nofollow" have eliminated t |
| Re: Sudden drop in traffic.. again | Autocrat | 6/23/10 7:53 AM | Don't suppose you read the FAQs? Pretty sure it mentions that the Link info from G does Not distinguish betwenn nofollowed or normal links. |
| Re: Sudden drop in traffic.. again | lboth | 6/23/10 8:03 AM | Thank you. I'll do some searching next time before I post too quickly. I found the info. I just wanted to make sure the changes I am making to make improvements are correct. BTW: Life is wonderful indeed. Since I've posted here and started making ch |
| Re: Sudden drop in traffic.. again | Autocrat | 6/23/10 9:04 AM | The variances/vagaries of SEO can be frustrating as hell. But it does go to show/prove that G does treat things differently, and that there is no singular method of getting optimal rankings. It really does boil down to site-by-site. What you may be |
| Re: Sudden drop in traffic.. again | tedmasterweb | 7/2/10 5:15 AM | I've read, with great interest, this entire thread and thank all of those who've participated thus far. I too recently experienced a sudden, and somewhat drastic, drop in "impressions" (from GWMT) which seems to be the source of a similar drop in re |
| Re: Sudden drop in traffic.. again | Autocrat | 7/2/10 9:05 AM | Please do not post your issue/question in someone elses topic. It's not only a little rude, but can result inconfusion over URLs etc. If the FAQs, this topics and others do Not resolve/answer your issue/question, then please, create your own topic, |