Is there something wrong with my blog?

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  benharrington · Member · Jan 7, 2014 at 4:23 pm

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  Traffic to my blog has dropped 75% in 3 months and keeps dropping. Could you please check that there’s nothing wrong with it as it’s unusual to have such a dramatic drop.

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  kraftbj · Staff · Jan 8, 2014 at 3:34 pm

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  I don’t see anything that stands out to me.

  SInce your setup with Google Webmaster Tools, can you log into that and see what notices are being returned? There’ll likely be some notices that aren’t impacting things really, but that could clue us into if there’s a “fatal” error in Google’s eyes, thinking that reduced search engine traffic may be partly responsible.

  Thanks!

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  benharrington · Member · Jan 10, 2014 at 10:45 am

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  You’ll have to excuse my lack of knowledge on Webmaster tools but I’ve had a look at it and it shows no obvious problems.
  The drop in traffic occurred at exactly the same time as Google’s Hummingbird update which I feel can’t be coincidental. Is there anything either myself or WordPress could do to respond to this?

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  kraftbj · Staff · Jan 10, 2014 at 4:44 pm

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  From everything we saw from Google, the same SEO principles applied before and now. In other words, I don’t believe there’s anything structurally we can do.

  While Google announced Hummingbird in late September, they launched it a month earlier, so with your highest month being September, I’m less inclined to blame Google.

  With your large “bumps” in January 2013, then a nice trend in May-August 2013, was there anything particular that was different? A solid post or two that gained a significant amount of traffic or anything like that?

  It looks like a good amount of traffic was pulled from these two posts:
  http://drivingtorque.com/2012/10/11/citroen-ds5-dsport-hybrid4-first-drive/ and http://drivingtorque.com/2013/01/23/all-new-ford-fiesta-how-does-it-compare-to-its-predecessor/ . Both of them, all-time, out-perform your home page: https://wordpress.com/my-stats/?blog=13647333&view=postviews&summarize&unit=1&numdays=-1

  I don’t have a solid answer, but could it be part of the natural flow of new car announcements? Not trying to pass blame, just trying to figure it out too :-)

  Cheers!