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I noticed that my traffic dropped by about 50% yesterday (compared to the last 7 days), then today I noticed that I have no traffic at all (about 40 pageviews or so)!!! So, I decided to check a couple of keywords for which I am on the first page in Google. I'm not there any longer!!! 

I don't know what happened, or where to look for answers. I just checked Webmaster to see if any major errors came up, but there was nothing. 

Does anyone have any suggestions? Search has been about 80% of my traffic during the last week!!!

Welcome to the Google Dance.

You are still in the google index.   http://www.google.com/search?s…..f&oq=

Sometimes sites bounce way down the index for a day or a week, then come back up, usually higher than before.  It's panic-inducing the first few times it happens, but as long as you are showing up in the index, it will get better.

Jason@LiveRealNow said:

Welcome to the Google Dance.

You are still in the google index.   http://www.google.com/search?s…..f&oq=

Sometimes sites bounce way down the index for a day or a week, then come back up, usually higher than before.  It's panic-inducing the first few times it happens, but as long as you are showing up in the index, it will get better.

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Have you seen this happen for multiple keywords? It's not that my articles are just low for those terms, but they are completely gone! I actually searched a few terms and added knsfinancial.com (so it would ignore most social media links), and those articles still didn't show up! 

I actually have an article that had a Pagerank before my site even had one, and that article doesn't show up for it's keyword either! 

Is this normal?

KNS Financial said:

Jason@LiveRealNow said:

Welcome to the Google Dance.

You are still in the google index.   http://www.google.com/search?s…..f&oq=

Sometimes sites bounce way down the index for a day or a week, then come back up, usually higher than before.  It's panic-inducing the first few times it happens, but as long as you are showing up in the index, it will get better.

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Have you seen this happen for multiple keywords? It's not that my articles are just low for those terms, but they are completely gone! I actually searched a few terms and added knsfinancial.com (so it would ignore most social media links), and those articles still didn't show up!
 

I actually have an article that had a Pagerank before my site even had one, and that article doesn't show up for it's keyword either! 

Is this normal?

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In December, I had it happen to an entire site that I was tracking 6 keywords for.   It took two weeks, but it came back with a higher rank than it started.

Jason@LiveRealNow said:

KNS Financial said:

Jason@LiveRealNow said:

Welcome to the Google Dance.

You are still in the google index.   http://www.google.com/search?s…..f&oq=

Sometimes sites bounce way down the index for a day or a week, then come back up, usually higher than before.  It's panic-inducing the first few times it happens, but as long as you are showing up in the index, it will get better.

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Have you seen this happen for multiple keywords? It's not that my articles are just low for those terms, but they are completely gone! I actually searched a few terms and added knsfinancial.com (so it would ignore most social media links), and those articles still didn't show up!

 

I actually have an article that had a Pagerank before my site even had one, and that article doesn't show up for it's keyword either! 

Is this normal?

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In December, I had it happen to an entire site that I was tracking 6 keywords for.   It took two weeks, but it came back with a higher rank than it started.
 

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Wow, that's insane! Any idea as to what caused it? 

Well anyway, I'm glad to hear that everything came back. 

Did you do anything to your permalinks or do some 301 re-directs?  That could affect things.

If you haven't done anything to your site, then sit this one through.  It will keep fluctuating.  Happens to me all the time!  But it comes back, sometimes it doesn't but I'm ranked higher for recent posts.  

 

If your posts disappear from google indexes altogether, then that is a cause for concern.  

everydaytips said:

Did you do anything with your sitemap or anything???

 

When I did site:knsfinancial, I only get 485 results, which was surprising- I thought there would be more.  (I get 1700 for mine)

 

Have you tried rebuilding and resubmitting your sitemap?  Did you do a plugin update or anything at all to anything??

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No, I haven't made any changes. I've been using WP Archive/Sitemap Generator for a long time. What do you use?

everydaytips said:

I use Google XML Sitemap Generator.  I have no idea if it is better or worse than any other sitemap generator.  I am just perplexed by your sudden drop.  Have you emailed google support?

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I've actually read good stuff about that plugin, but I just figured they were all the same, and the one I use creates an archive page as well. However, I didn't see any option to rebuild the sitemap. Maybe I should switch just in case.

I didn't email them because my site was still indexed. I did notice that 2 of the articles returned to the front page, so maybe the problem is correcting itself. I'll check it again on Monday.

Thanks for the suggestion!