flicky - 4:55 am on Dec 8, 2009 (gmt 0)

I'm glad to see this... something major has happened and I bet there are alot of others with the same problem. My example is even more extreme than the poster's. My site is very popular and has been around since 1997. I've lost 80k hits a day from Google since this problem began. Nothing changed in the way I was doing business. Same as usual. No tricks, no garbage.

The drop began at exactly 12 noon on November 29th.

Now, I have noticed some very strange activity in my Google Webmaster Tools reports. I keep seeing these "DNS Lookup Timeout" notifications for a small number of pages... between 5-12... it comes and goes. There is no reason for that error. I've never seen that since I began using webmaster tools in the very beginning. I have this feeling that something is screwed up with Google. I sure hope it gets fixed soon. 80k hits is alot to loose each day from a glitch.

I still come up #1 for my domain, my main keyword and I'm doing well with some obscure terms in other countries... but everything else is gone. The number of indexed pages is the same as usual and spidering continues as usual.