Organic Traffic dropped 50%. Anyone want to have a stab at why? (URL listed)
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Just curious what the pro's on here think is the reason why our site got hammered recently.
The URL is www.jobshadow.com. We've got gobs of quality content that had been ranking for quite a few keywords. Even one from Rand himself http://www.jobshadow.com/interview-with-seo-and-seomoz-founder-rand-fishkin/
Rankings for even the exact match domain keyword 'Job Shadow' have been pummeled. Anyway, we've got a pretty solid link profile I would think.
We also have a very high user time on the site, thus suggesting the organic traffic was engaged when Google ranked us for those keywords.
We have lots of unsolicited inbound links and even recent ones from PBS. I'm not really sure what it takes to please the "machine" at this point. Curious as to what everyone here thinks.
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Hey Thomas, thanks for the input. The dictation is a little rough so I'm not 100% sure how to respond. We do have a wide variety of careers on the site, and thus links coming in from a wide variety of sources.
As far as .edu links. We do have a lot of those as well. Colleges see value in the site for their students and link over.
I guess Google sees differently:). If there's no way to help the algo see that then so be it. But if it's something we could do differently I'm all ears. Thanks again.
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Thanks Jesse. The only message in GWMT is a notice that my traffic took a big drop. Not a why, just a heads up ha.
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I have a guess as to why you can't buy this recent update by Google. You encourage students to always link back to your website regardless more so-called cited. Because web designers or anybody that puts their URL on the footer or in a lot of websites gets penalized and cools gotten Penalized because it is seen as some sort of manipulation especially if he's a real students of any sort and you're putting your URL on their domain that's in edu that's a
that they weren't earned link then
Google has always been very protective of the dot EDU domains and any company having any interest in having links on them. So they will always penalize The company that is requiring a lot of links on the dot EDU site and you clearly state please remember to psych us. All that is fair I do agree to say you have to many people do it it turns into the exact same effect as a web designer it also turns into the exact same fact that is a edu Link scheme. I'm not saying that's what you're doing I'm just saying that's the way that Google's looking at most likely. Probably why you're losing so much traffic. I would definitely think about the relevancy of the student or other persons workplace to your company I know it's jobs and everything like that but This is simply a guess at this point. I'm gonna look over your site and make sure there aren't any errors or anything blocking the Google bought from indexing your site. And if you would let me get back to you in about an hour so I will do this analysis for anything that could be Laurenrae by not allowing the fuck to crawl and let you know about that.
This is a quote from your site below.
PS please forgive any glaring grammar or word issues I have been doing this by dictation on a mobile phone so I sincerely apologize for the mistakes.
Thomas
Hi, thanks for the kind words. Most of the interviews going forward will have people’s names associated with them, as well as their Twitter feed(if applicable) along with a link to their site with some info about them(have a look at the most recent 6 or so interviews). Given the information is found on http://www.jobshadow.com students should continue to cite this as their source(along with any other sources required by the teacher obviously).
That being said, many interviews will continue to be anonymous. We ask financial questions that some people aren’t comfortable sharing publicly(and sometimes people are very candid about other aspects of their jobs). And since we all work for a living getting solid financial data is a must for young people considering careers. Plus we want to keep the interviews uniform in nature so people can know what to expect with each career profile they read.
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Yikes. So this happened recently? Say, right around 5/22 ish?
If so, my conclusion has to be a Penguin hit. Have you received any messages in GWMT?
I'm not sure why you'd be Penguined. I just took a peek at your backlink profile and it looks pretty solid. You have a high PR and a decent DA. Although I'm surprised your DA isn't higher with a PR of 5. I see sites with a DA of 49 and PR of 2 all the time... This is confusing to me.
I'm sorry I don't know what to say but I'm curious. Please keep us posted on your findings if it is Penguin related. It would mean there is some other factor that I have yet to consider going into this algorithm..
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