My site's traffic has fallen very badly!
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People are not finding my blog on the search engines nowhere near as much as before. Before I was getting around about between 200 – 250 views per day. Now it is about 100 – if I’m lucky! Is anybody else getting the same problem?
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Hi. I suggest you take a look at the following support document:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/ -
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@davejwilson and allaboutwarmovies
Do understand that all issues between search engines are yours to work out. We Volunteers cannot help you with them as airoddyssey has pointed out.It’s possible your traffic has fallen due to the Panda update at Google which is aimed at removing duplicate content and low quality non-original material from the SERPS, thereby favoring high quality original content dorm high authority blogs in the particular niche. If this is the case, and I can’t say whether it is or not as only Google knows, then if you increase the amount of original content you create and publish your traffic may recover.
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66359
See also > http://tinyurl.com/3u72l6p -
@allaboutwarmovies
Also note that some of your former traffic may have been coming from the WordPress.com global tagging pages. If you use a an excessive number of categories and/or tags, which are treated the same way by WordPress.com and search engines, then your posts will not appear on the global tag pages and may be dropped into the supplementary index search return results by search engines. See here for more information > http://en.support.wordpress.com/global-tags/#missing-posts -
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I did check out the support page about search engines before, and I will contact Google when I can find the time.
Seeing how the articles on my site are anything but low quality, and the only non-original material I use for the pieces are the images (they are film reviews, so posters and screenshots go hand in hand with what we do), and that other blogs and websites that are doing the exact same thing are still coming up on the first few pages – I don’t see how that can be the problem.
But I understand that WordPress cannot help with this issue, and thanks for taking the time out to give us some info, timethief.
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Going into it deeper, I just found out that this is actually the problem. I will resubmit my site for reconsideration after I do some cleaning up.
Thanks very much for your help, timethief.
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