Google update on 4th September

[mjk26]

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[Felip3]

I saw similar drop in some of my sites... Same dates, never got any message from Google...

Does any else had this problem?

Would be cool to figure out a solution for that...

[Kurt_Steinbrueck]

Have you gotten links from any private blog networks?  I heard some people saying they think a few of them got smacked by Google last week.

[mjk26]

Hi,

just a further update to my earlier post.  My site actually recovered in September, following the 90% drop in organic traffic.  It recovered to normal-ish levels after about a week.  Following Hummingbird I didn't experience any dip in traffic at all, but then late on October 11th, my site experienced the 90% drop once again!  I've got my fingers crossed that it's another temporary drop, but it does worry me since the drop is so drastic.  Does anyone have any suggestions why my site appears to be so temperamental in the organic listings at the minute?  Many of my pages that have dropped from page 1 to page 3+ have got great, unique review content, and in analytics, they show a low bounce rate.  Users who find these pages seem to enjoy using them, they have a good conversion rate, but Google just don't seem to like them at present.  I've not yet been able to find any online chatter about others experiencing similar drops on these dates, which confuses me even more.  My site has never had any manual penalties - at least, they have not been flagged up in GWTs.  Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated,

Many thanks

Mike