90% traffic loss. Pandalized?

[LocalLocal]

Happened several times during this year. After launch as soon as we reach exactly 100K uniques Google kills 90% of the traffic.  Then sudden recovery (pretty much without any action from us) after several weeks not connected to any algo updates/refresh.

No warnings. No malware. WMT clean as a baby. Only old good whitehat SEO. Not even close to the edge of wrongdoing:)

This time it happens again Aug. 22nd right after Panda 3.9.1.  What is different now same exact date Bing traffic went down as well.

http://bit.ly/eEu27I

Need advice:)

[irvingw]

You really need to look at all your pages especially the /catalog pages and see if they can be considered quality content or are they are just a bunch of links.  I would noindex,follow all those pages until you can spruce them up. Basically, your site looks like a big link farm. I also found serious SEO infractions and formatting  issues with your meta tags and microformats. You should also have canonical tags on every page.

[EGOL]

Take the quiz at http://www.mytrafficdropped.com/

[LocalLocal]

Not sure I understood this part: "You should also have canonical tags on every page."

Thank you!

Edited: Ah I see what you mean. Unfortunately we can't. Pages may look similar but locations are completely different.  Happens because some locations may have almost identical set of retail chain stores (obviously same products in same stores...)

[LocalLocal]

Already did. Think we can adjust few things.

Weird that Bing traffic went down the same way as Google. It's Google's Panda afterall so does that mean that rumors were true and Bing "steals" Google results to add to it's own SERPs?

[JustDucky]

Local - My site was severely hit by Panda 3.5 and Penguin 1.0.   Bing results held steady.  Eventually a slight decline in Bing but I attribute it to the loss of the FB Likes that resulted from my taking a break in the "community" (think "Free Beer") and taking a break from developing IBL's, new postings, etc.

[irvingw]

Canonical tags are the least of the issues. I would focus on beefing up the category pages. In the meantime, use the noindex,follow robots tag on those pages.

[LocalLocal]

Already noindexed and followed. I guess it will take next Panda data refresh to see the results. Thank you Irving.

[LocalLocal]

Irving, should we also submit removal request for these pages?

Thank you