wanderingmind - 5:41 am on Oct 6, 2006 (gmt 0)

I got my traffic back which I had lost on August 17th. Did nothing.

I expect it to go back to barren after exactly 4 weeks, with the next data refresh.

This would just mean that a few parameters are being turned up or down in every refresh, and sites cross a line and lose and gain rankings.

The next thing then would be to figure out what those parameters are.

In my case, I suspect they are similar/ same / no meta descriptions; a dupe content penalty to a 20-30 link 'related stories' box which was repeated across all stories in a section, occasional titles repeated in pages due to oversight.

Other potential suspects: Press releases published on the site (obviously not original), but as a news site, I need to keep press releases on the site, so I am not going to touch that.