Comments on: What should you do if your Google Ranking Falls and you lose all your traffic?

By: bhami

bhami — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:40:28 +0000

Thanks for the tips. I will try not to panic. My site http://pint.com.au/ recently dropped from a rank of 3 to 1 and the number of pages indexed has dropped to about a third of what it was. Figures crossed that things will improve. In the mean time I will work on improving the content and making the site more search engine friendly. Thanks again for the tips. Ben.

By: van man

van man — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:03:40 +0000

my site vanished after being in top 3 for 8 months – cant see it anywhere but google says its not banned , cant find out why either… my traffic is more of less the same as its always been, which is odd, as i dont come up on any searches for what i offer now .

By: dede

dede — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:03:30 +0000

I have done 3-5 reviews so far and my Google stay at pr4. today it the sixth reviews, my pr then drop to 2? making money through review is much more faster the adsesne, but it seemed very dangerous for blog ‘s PR! i read you post regarding when the pr drop. its make me bit cool. my question is why there are some such review if in the end spoil blog reputation? what is the best to make money with blog? thanks Darren,

By: Aaron Lee

Aaron Lee — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:24:43 +0000

Very insightful article.. I guess if you do everything according to Google’s webmaster guide you will have much less chance of experiencing this problem, given the fact that you have a reliable web hosting service and error-free website.

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By: charles

charles — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:24:24 +0000

A PR drop will be affecting your traffic from google.

By: eman

eman — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:40:45 +0000

just today i noticed my PR is dropped down from 3 to 0 … it frightened me but i got lucky to find this post.

the traffic is gone little low but its still coming from google will the PR drop down take little time to effect organic traffic?

i was having server outage problem, my site was facing problem for last two months….once its up and once its down…i don’t know if this issue dropped my site’s rank

how much time it will take PR to be updated?

By: CrazzyCool

CrazzyCool — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 06:12:05 +0000

Yea I am currently going through something similar..it is not easy but this is a good article.

Thank you very much for sharing this….

By: Robert Roose

Robert Roose — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:59:13 +0000

Great post. I’m having the same problems with my website http://www.androidmagazine.nl at the moment. I was doing really great, after just two weeks I got in the first SERP with the keyword ‘android’. And than it struck. I’ve been set back to the 3rd of 4th SERP page. It’s been lasting a few days now so I hope it’s over soon…

By: goonie

goonie — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 01:55:55 +0000

I have lost my blog traffic too. Two days ago the traffic and SERP ranking back but only for two days, than fall again. But the PR goes up from PR 4 to PR 5. So what must I do now?Just wait or do another else? thanks

By: Louis Liem

Louis Liem — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:20:46 +0000

I experienced that, back then on my early months of blogging when my PR4 went to 0. I didn’t do anything and kept blogging as usual. Thankfully, it rose again after a few weeks, even it isn’t as high as it was..

By: James

James — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:43:48 +0000

I have lost my rankings, I was on page three now I am on page 13. This is a massive decline, although I am confident i will get back to where I was and closer to that first page. For my keyword I was 23 out 200,000, but I am planning to create a podcast to increase my rankings.

By: Alvin

Alvin — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:54:27 +0000

I just entered my first dark period today. I’ve re-run some past searches that got me to the first page, and now I’m either not there or something like number 500. While I don’t make mega money like the professional bloggers, the $1 – 4 per day hit is nice and makes you want to build your blog to get even more.

I’ll take your advice and be patient while continuing to post.

Cheers.

By: iliyas patel

iliyas patel — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 11:30:46 +0000

I Have a web site and that is a very dynamics site, google index my site with in 7 days but my site page rank not increased,
what can i do for that. Pls do say or give me tips about that.
thanks
iliyas patel

By: Webmaster

Webmaster — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 22:48:48 +0000

Great Google ranking post Darren! It looks like you originally posted this 11 months ago, but you are still receiving relevant comments so a lot of us are still having this issue.

We are experiencing a strange situation where our PR rank fell from PR4 to PR0…but only on our home page. Pages within the site are still 3′s and 4′s when tested, but the main page remains at zero. We didn’t do anything unusual to initiate the sudden page rank changes (that we know of), but natural search and overall traffic is steady despite the homepage ranking bug.

Hopefully it is just a glitch that will work itself out, but we’ll check out a few link provided in the post and see if we can find others with the same issue.

Thanks again!
Webmaster http://www.drmoz.com

By: web designer

web designer — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:21:23 +0000

I really appreciates for this nice article…it helps lot of newbies and of coarse the SEOs while doing search engine optimization….thanks Darren :)

By: attorney at law

attorney at law — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 13:38:57 +0000

Hi Problogger
Thank you for your fantastic site. I have recently improved my page rank considering the tips you have referd to. Thanks

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:12:23 +0000

I just got knocked out of the rankings again by Google. Second time. Very frustrating. The first time it took a couple of months for my traffic to return to normal levels.

I think the reason both times (they have a common cause after all) was using inappropriate words (in appropriate contexts).

I hope this doesn’t knock me out of Google for two months. That would be tough to stomach, even though it doesn’t send much traffic now it is still 50% of my visitors.

By: Blog Opinion

Blog Opinion — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:11:30 +0000

Hi , my blog pagerank recently fall down to N/A from 2 on google toolbar . I don’t know why . It happen when Google was making some updates in page rank . The page rank on site is not increasing. I am having no pagerank for last 2 months . I am getting good traffic from google on few keywords .

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 26 May 2007 04:27:25 +0000

Hi, I was hopeing you might be able to help. I have hade this blog since feb this year. It got indexed to page two under keyword “Unblock Myspace” and slowly made its way to page 1. after a month. Then it all went rong I put up a new post then it wasnt but the next day my blog got burried in the results, so I paniced and took the post off, two days later my blog took back its index spot on page one.

I got around 2000 + visitors a day and because of the topic there are very few compitors in the niche so adsense dosn’t pay well. So recently I made some adjustments to try and increase my earnings by posting new content,. and by completly forgeting the first horrible experience, It happend again but a little differently. About 3 days after publishing my new posts my adsense earning increased and I was loving it, 2 days later my site got burried to the back of the keyword index ?? I have watched it all week and it has slowly made it’s way to page 35 and has stayed there for 2 days now.

Can you help me out, maybe you know whats going on, and can suggest somthing. Hopefuly.

Thanks,
Paul A