Is your site's traffic dying down? Don't freak out.
Hi WA community, so lately I've been seeing and getting messages from people who are freaking out about their traffic dying out for some strange reason.
They are doing the WA training, they are supposedly doing it right, and yet this is happening, what's going on? Well here's what you need to know:
Most niches sites see a loss in traffic due to the holiday season coming up this time of year and it happens across the board for MANY sites, especially bootcamp sites which promote WA, it's just normal.
In addition other events trigger these things:
Trump tweets something, everyone freaks out, attention is drawn away from your sites.
Holidays come up in other countries, masses flock and focus on that.
In addition, other trends also affect other sites, like no one thinks about dieting before the New Year, but "everyone" does after New Years.
So if you're seeing a drop in traffic, and you've been following the WA training and not being "bad", you're fine. Let me say that again, you're fine.
If your Google analytics traffic is dropping, do this:
Check your Google rankings for pages you know are ranking high, if their rankings are still in that spot or close, you're fine. It's just one of those event moments taking place and it'll pass.
Additionally, if Google is doing an algorithm update, this ALSO affects sites, but once again, if you're doing the WA training, fret not, it'll come back after the algorithm change has settled, it ALWAYS does.
Vitaliy
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Thought its the other way around, due to the holiday season coming up, more traffic as Christmas nears.
Easier said than done. The situation is serious, you have seen the person blogging about the traffic reduced to zero. Having a dead site after a couple of years of building it, is everything but normal. This is not related to the holidays.
Perhaps you didn't read the rest of the blog post, I mentioned what a person needs to do in order to verify if it's dead and that is to cross check with Google and see if their rankings are intact, if they are, they are fine.
Hi Jovo,
I did not want to startle anyone here about my site. It seems Vitaliy is right as my analytics have shown people are visiting again. Perhaps it was a glitch, I don't know?
What I do know, is I went through peoples advice and tried a couple of things. Plus, as Vitaliy says, I didn't freak out too much, I checked my pages were still in the rankings which they were.
I did read the rest of your blog. I am talking also from my own experience with all sites crippled, literally, with the traffic reduced to the quarter of what I had 3 months ago. All my ranking is excellent as it always was, with many featured posts as usual. I know pretty well what I am talking about, have checked everything possible and impossible. And yes, I have always worked 'by book' and by rules.
So let's be serious. You would not want to find yourself in such a situation.
You did not startle me, have my own sites to realize the gravity of the situation. Have been through this from the early September.
Same thing here. I had not done anything fishy prior to Aug 2018; however, my traffic took a nose dive after the August 1 and Sept 27 Google algorithm updates. It seems there was another update on Oct 30 (Google Halloween ranking update). Looks like things are more stable now, and my traffic/keywords are showing a small upward trend (gained about 3% after losing 50% between Aug and Nov).
Yes you are right, there has been something very bad happening from August. I can see it clearly and can compare with the previous years. Nothing is normal, contrary to what the author of this blog writes.
What do you think about photography niche during the holidays? It seems that so far my November is a LOT slower than October. $70 as of now vs $1585 in October, pretty huge difference. (Not super worried, just curious).
It depends, usually the holiday traffic gravitates towards hot selling electronics and gift ideas. You could look up trends for cameras that are trending around this time (I'm sure certain models get praise around this time), then do a top 5 or top 10 review of them and put some bing ads traffic to work to see how it converts.
According to Google trends Nov-Dec and May are the highest (though it's not crazy peaks, just by 30-50 searches more). I thought technology usually sells out like crazy but we'll see. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
A lot of people are holding off on shopping right now, knowing that the great deals of Black Friday are less than 2 weeks away. Then things will go crazy!
Good point Jeannie! Zarina, electronics do sell out but thats broad, you have to look into which particular electronics are geared to be best sellers, I'd go on Amazon and look at cameras, and see which ones are getting the best seller rank, then potentially post those on your site as reviews, then hit it with some Bing Traffic when black friday comes around, you should be able to get VERY cheap clicks, following WA's Phase 6 training.
I've never done Bing Traffic but guess I should give it a try!! Thanks for the advice, I will use it, as for Bing Ads, time to check Phase 6 training!
Trump tweets something... That's a good one!
That's the reason why that man became a president: ATTENTION!
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To avoid, this I am trying several niches in a few sites and one site also that can cover multiple mini niches in 2019.
Finally getting some first spot page 1 results and they remain in place - these give you sales daily - BUT...
The only thing that annoys me is that one of my main merchants has switched their platform from http to https in October so I have to redo all the links again (a few weeks sales missed) and this takes a ton of time to do that I do not have!!!