Scary Traffic Drop — Slower at First, Now Much Sharper
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Hi. My website, dailytekk.com, has been steadily losing viewers since April. In recent weeks, though, the drop has been much more significant — scarily so.
Almost all our traffic comes from Google, organically.
In the last 30 days I've lost 135k page views.
I'm not sure if we just have content that is getting old, if Google changed something in the algorithm, if we are being penalized, if AMP pages are having a negative effect, etc.
I would love to find a great consultant to help us figure this out and get back on the right track. We seem to be losing traffic despite our best efforts at this point.
Thanks,
Chris
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Thats penguin time.
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I recently faced similar situation (but not to the extend as yours). It could be panda or something else.
First segment the traffic. Try by source/channels if one source is worse than other. Try location. Is one source is worse than other. Try Type of customers. You get to a place where instead of saying you loosing the traffic, you would be able to say this source, this traffic, this location is having the most impact. It is easier to find when there is sharp drop,
Btw I faced a big drop on Sept 29 on multiple sites. Did you see around same time?
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