Lost 50% google traffic in one day - panic?

[GeorgFranz]

Hi Grace,

thanks for your long post and for sharing your experience! Well, I am using a different software / content mangement system, so I am not able to have the same issue as you.

Best wishes,
Georg.

[GeorgFranz]

Hi Steven,

in the last days it got even worse (!). We lost the number 1 position of our main keyword. Also keyword combinations. So we have lost again half of our remaining traffic.

I am pretty frustrated, I need some time to analyze this new situation. I will post the new findings here in some days.

Best wishes,

Georg.

[GeorgFranz]

Hi Peter,

were there any major google ranking updates in the last days? (end of july?)

Best wishes,
Georg.

[Dr-Pete]

Definitely some turbulence at the end of July, and around Panda 3.9. If you haven't seen it, keep an eye on our new project, MozCast:

http://mozcast.com/

[freestone]

Our rankings are still fluctuating wildly.  Up and down 10 to 35 places from Moz campaign crawl to the next crawl.   This has been going on for months.  It makes little sense.  A keyword that is up 10 one crawl might be down 35 the next and the same keyword might then be up 45 in the next crawl.  It is just non sense.

Are others experiencing this crazy swing up and down ?

[GeorgFranz]

Oh, very cool site! Thanks for the info!

[AndyMacLean]

Do you rely on branded keywords for which you arent the brand owner? Ive seen alot of movement for these kinds of terms recenty.

[GeorgFranz]

Hi Andy,

no, thats not the case at my site.

Best wishes,

Georg.

[GeorgFranz]

Still no progress. So we have decided to rename our main urls and run into the next mess, have a look here: http://www.seo-stories.com/post/31927940673/google-penguin-penalty-duplicate-content-problem

[freestone]

Sorry to hear things are still bad for your site.  We are still suffering reduced traffic and have done a ton of work on backlinks, created a list of very old ugly backlinks and a few new ones that frankly must be negative SEO (yea all you people that want to jump in and say no it is not negative SEO ....that is very rare to non-existent...dont bother....I dont want to hear it....your are wrong...you are as niavie as you are a fool).

We have now sent 1000s of emails and or filled out contact forms for link removals from these sites .....and gues what.....ZERO reponces so we are creating a disavow file and will try and come back here and let you know how it goes.

More on the negative SEO.....we have some recent links (according the MAN himself) that are super suspect.  We did not ask for them and there is really no reason for thse site to link us except competitors trying to pile on the already diminised ranks.  Hey negative SEO guys.....Get a life...

I would love to throttle some penguins.

[csfarnsworth]

dean1986 I totally agree with you.Look at the meta keywords.Are they not part of SEO strategies.Forum posting was used as one of the largest technique of SEO.Than people switch over to blog posting.Than web 2.0 and now guest post/infographics.

Surely the ranking game is not easy by any means and google have to take actions all the time but the day I meet MR MATT always coming up with happy face in videos telling the world EMD is there check out are you down,I shall ask him.MR MATT "why you guys hate spam and index it"?

Who develop natural domain as ranking signal and who said this game is over?