Drop in Visibility and Visitors

[mcsweer]

I have had several sites have their SE Visibility and Visitor traffic drop of a cliff on August 10.  I know there was a Panda update but I cannot determine why these sites incurred such a precipitous drop.  Any advice?

Mike

[OlegKorneitchouk]

The August 10th update was not related to Panda. It is named the Emanuel Update and it affected the rankings of sites based on the number of valid copyright removal requests.

So unless your site has a lot of copyright infringing material, that wasn't the source of your traffic drop.

1. Check the links of your competitors and see if they increased.

2. Check your own backlinks and see if you received any negative seo.

Can't really tell you much more without knowing the site.

Cheers,

Oleg

[SEODinosaur]

Hi Mike,

Check you anchor texts, are you linking in with all keywords and no branding/URL? Does your linking profile look natural? Are your links quality/related to your niche?

Is your site a good site do your users like what they find? or do they go back to the SERP for another link?

Without a URL its hard to give you real constructive criticism.

[JustinTaylor88]

There was also the June/July 86 pack released on the 10th August.

Check out Search Engine Lands overview of the changes, they do a far better job of explaining the changes than I could
http://searchengineland.com/googles-june-july-updates-130392 

It seems the updates focus on quality, the new algo has been updated to help users find "high quality content from trusted sources"

That suggests to me that quality of backlinks and possibly social shares may be factors, so in addition for checking items already mentioned by Oleg and Donnie, I would certainly do some backlink analysis against the sites that are now occupying the spots you used to.

Hope that helps