I could use a little help with this site in trying to understand why the traffic has dropped off sice March.
The site is october-systems.co.uk and they provide IT training materials. Traffic from all other search engines has been steady, but Google has dropped off and as far as I know there have been no major changes to the site. You may find they have 2-3 sites and part of the content is duplicated between those sites, but it is not a big percentage. Still they have been advised to get it changed.
Anything else that someone can see that may account for the traffic loss?
Thanks!
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ronhollin posted this at 20:40 — 16th June 2004.
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Has there competition been doing there homework? Maybe the site hasn't dropped. Maybe the competition has gone up.
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Christian_SEO posted this at 23:00 — 16th June 2004.
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That is a possibility, but the drop is dramatic, and it has not been seen on MSN, Yahoo, etc.
ronhollin posted this at 23:04 — 16th June 2004.
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The site has 7 incoming links. There is your problem.
Christian_SEO posted this at 00:56 — 17th June 2004.
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Are you saying that the site has lost incomming links and that is why it has lost traffic?
It still has a PR5....
My site at nielsentech.com has a PR3 and no back links (should be hundreds from all the sites that have linked to me over the past 4-5 years, but I still get good traffic...). and I've never seen any drop in traffic.
I guess it could be related to linking, but in my opinion you cannot just say a site has 7 links as the reason it has had a dramatic loss in traffic. Please back up your statement with some information, ok? To be honest I don't know if it has gained, lost, or just maintained that number of links during the time it lost traffic.
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ronhollin posted this at 01:23 — 17th June 2004.
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It's possible that links were lost. I would concentrate on getting more links and you are sure to see your rankings go up. It shows 7 backlinks, but I'm sure it has more as Google only shows PR4 and above using that tool.
I'm just saying that you have only 7 backlinks for that site and that is pathetic. When I started my e-commerce site I was nowhere (duh) and I optimized it and started my link-building. After about 4 months of that I was #1 for my top 5 keywords. I had all of the on-page elements optimized as well. Just to test the whole "links get you top rankings" method, I put crazy word in my title, ALT tags, H1 tags and I completely removed my META keywords and Description and after 6 weeks I was still #1 for those keywords. I have so many links with my top keywords that no one will ever catch me. I've even had competitors call me personally asking how come they couldn't take over the top spot. I did so much link-building that they would have to spend 40 hours a week for months to catch me. Get more links and your rankings will increase. That is a guarantee.
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