wanderingmind - 3:21 am on Apr 12, 2006 (gmt 0)

If giving a shot at traffic to the little guy was true --

I know a niche site, very focused, and totally original nice content. Their visitors are currently all type-in or from MSN and yahoo. No adsense on the site yet.

For some 3 weeks in March, they were in SERPs. Its a new site, so rankings were nothing great but they were there. Around 300 visitors a day from Google in that period.

Then the pages vanished from Google, and only the homepage remained.

For me, for a niche and new site, the traffic from Google when their pages appeared in SERPS should have at least kept them somewhere in the SERPs, at least deep down in the index.

That doesn't seem to be happening.

One of my own new sites with again excellent content (its an experiment, but I wrote 200 articles for that) has been supplemental forever - once it escaped supp hell and traffic shot up. Back to supp, and no traffic.

That shot at traffic seems to happen - but with no impact for the future.