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AlexK - 5:07 am on Feb 8, 2005 (gmt 0)
natural number: Very consistent numbers on my site for the drop in visitors following this Google update : (compared to the average of the same day, previous 3/4 weeks) (actual visitor numbers in 4 figures daily) On the previous Monday morning I had just instituted a mod_rewrite into httpd.conf to 301 old sub-domains from some years back into the current domain (www.mysite.host.net => www.mysite.com), thinking that the continued existence of these sub-domain SERPS was causing a duplicate penalty in Google. When this drop first showed up it was `oh-my-God-what-have-I-done'. It was quite a relief to discover that the drop had nothing to do with my actions. I think. [Just read this immediately after posting] WebFusion: You are kidding, right?
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i'm getting about 30% less traffic
Amazing! I come especially to post the following, and the above is the first thing I see. Thu 3 Feb: 28%
Fri 4 Feb: 30%
Sat 5 Feb: 27%
Sun 6 Feb: 26%
Mon 7 Feb: 28%
I'm still waiting for the doom and gloomers to explain why not a single one of thousands of "white-hat" websites have been affected negatively.