lucy24
msg:4550746 | 11:15 pm on Mar 3, 2013 (gmt 0) |
You need a little more information. The most fundamental question is: 80% in number of unique visits, or in number of pages requested?
The sequence goes:
--visitor requests a page
--site shows Cookie message
--visitor says "Yeah, yeah, I understand, show me the ### page already"
--site makes additional cookie saying "visitor has agreed to accept cookies" (this line is a guess on my part, because otherwise you'd have to show the same message on every single page)
--site serves page
--site serves additional pages as requested (again, this is where I'm guessing that there are no further Accept-cookie messages)
At what point in the sequence is the drop happening? Are users declining to follow through on their initial request, or are they visiting the first page but not continuing to additional pages?
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jimbeetle
msg:4550752 | 11:50 pm on Mar 3, 2013 (gmt 0) |
Have you checked to see if the drop coincides with any SE algorithm or data updates?
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MartinBrown
msg:4554258 | 10:52 am on Mar 13, 2013 (gmt 0) |
I wonder if the cookie message affected Google/Bing bots reading the site. Is the site still OK within the SERPS?
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phranque
msg:4554264 | 11:16 am on Mar 13, 2013 (gmt 0) |
welcome to WebmasterWorld, jonnyruss and MartinBrown!
I was going to ask the same question as MB.
have you checked the cached version of your page(s) in google or tried "fetch as googlebot" in GWT?
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