Anyone else hit by the Oct. 13th Panda update? | Bloggers Lair | Yakezie Forums

I haven;t seen any drastic change, week end traffic usually stays at 70 -80% of weekday traffic for me.

Geez, that's too bad. It's seemingly quite random to many people how that happens. I have heard of people seeing search traffic plummet for a while, then come back – but not sure if when involved with Panda. Hope it does recover for you though.

I noticed a decrease in traffic, but I did not know why! 

I haven't seen anything unusual on the SE front. We're still getting between 40-50% SE traffic.

It's definitely clear that my site was specifically targeted. I'm talking a very very large decrease here. I also manually checked my best keywords and my site is listed much further down the SERPs for all of them than it was on Oct. 12th.

I hope it recovers – but unless they change the algorithm back or lift any penalty they may have given me – I think this is the new norm for me. Losing 60% of your total traffic sucks!

Jeff Rose said:

SavingMentor said:

It's definitely clear that my site was specifically targeted. I'm talking a very very large decrease here. I also manually checked my best keywords and my site is listed much further down the SERPs for all of them than it was on Oct. 12th.

I hope it recovers – but unless they change the algorithm back or lift any penalty they may have given me – I think this is the new norm for me. Losing 60% of your total traffic sucks!

Keep your head up.  I haven't mentioned this in the forum yet, but my site was hit back in April from Panda.   I had similar affects losing 70% of my traffic overnight.   When the past 4 months I was averaging over 100k visits per month, that sucks….big time!     There was no black hat tricks that I was doing.  Only good, original content, submitting to carnivals, and guest posts.  That's it.  

This month is the best my traffic has been since and I'll be lucky to crack 40k visits.   When it originally happened I was so frustrated, and hence why I've been really been emphasizing the newsletter signups.   Google might be able to take your traffic away, but they can't take away your email subs.

Holy cow! 100k visits!

That's why I'm working on my direct traffic and referrals through rss and facebook. Google is too fickle to depend on. I wouldn't trust my blog's livelyhood to them.

Wow, what a kick in the shorts for you and Jeff. I've seen a decrease but my traffic wasn't that high to begin with, and I haven't been able to post much lately.

There are a TON of sites that got bumped in this last update, but I suspect it is temporary.  There was an update that ran on 9/28 but Google didnt really like the results so Matt Cutts announced an upcoming update that "should impact 2% of sites" … which I believe is the Oct 13/14 update.  

The problem is that it sounds like it impacted way more than 2% of sites, penalized "good" sites and promoted a lot of MFA and spun content sites to higher rankings… not good.  Since that's not exactly what Google is looking for I figure that this "adjustment" is not final… but what do I know.

BYI got crushed in the panda update before this most recent one… lost 90%+ of traffic.  I decided to just stop posting altogether and make a couple minor adjustments to the site to see where it ended up after the update (after all… what did I have to lose?  NOTHING was ranking).  

It seems to have bounced back a little but still not where it was… I can see things returning to normal a little so I'm going to start back up again.

Anyway be patient, don't make any crazy changes… a lot of the time Google throws the baby out with the bath water and eventually comes back to fix it. It might take a month til the next Panda update or it might be sooner but if your site has good content and a good link profile you'll bounce back.

Its all just part of the "fun" of making money online unfortunately.

One of my niche websites was getting 2,500+ visitors PER DAY and as of two days ago this has dipped to $1,200. It has impacted Adsense earnings from $45 a day to just under $20. Percentage wise these are significant numbers.

THE STRUGGLE – the most frustrating part is that we don't know what is causing/has caused our sites to dip. In my case, I have other sites built and marketed the same way as the niche site talked about above, however those were not impacted. It makes it a big guessing game for the small website owner. Because of this, profiting from niche sites has become a numbers game and we are seeing numerous micro niche websites crop up overnight.  Those with authority site, such as a popular blog suffer less if at all because traffic is well diversified (not just search engines). Moreover, one would think Google has given a lot more credibility to authority sites with a voice behind it vs a remote niche site that is on a set it and forget it profit model.

Long story short – many sites are impacted, reasons are unknown, therefore what to do different is also unknown (guessing game).  Would love to hear everyone's thoughts on this statement, as well as what can be done to protect our web properties providing they are backed with good content and are marketed ethically ? ? ?

@ Rose – where do you get your latest / greatest Google news and Matt Cut's updates? His blog? I'd like to dig in further into the new Panda update and recent happenings

Haha, speak of the devil.   GFC was not affected but my other boomer site was, Consumer Boomer. 

Still early, but traffic looks like it's down about 50%.   Yeah!   (There's A LOT of sarcasm in that "Yeah!" )