Sharp drop in traffic this month?

Why did traffic drop this month on my site, for the first time in a year?

[luong]

For the past year, I have managed to increase the
traffic on my site every
month, going from 1837 daily visits in Sept 2002 to
7639 visits in May 2003.

However, in June, for the fist time, I experienced a
drop in traffic (5651 daily visits).

Documents that I found on the web say that this is
due to better weather and closing of schools, but the
drop they quote is of a few percentage points, not
more than 30%!

So far, it looks like google keeps indexing me correctly,
with the PR unchanged at 7. I am puzzled. Any ideas?
Did your traffic decline sharply in June as well?

Thanks

PS: I have edited the msg. to remove URL. Sorry.

[edited by: luong at 3:03 am (utc) on July 1, 2003]

[mack]

You might want to edit your post to remove your url ;-) (as per tos)

Welcome to webmasterworld.
I am in a similar situation where traffic is down for the first time on 18 months. What we need to remember is a lot of our traffic comes via google and google is in the process of going through a transitional phase. With luck our traffic will be back up to normal levels when google gets it's self back up to full speed.

Mack.

[chiyo]

1. The Northern hemisphere summer. Beach looks better than the Web!

2. I DO think that Google's new algos, by design or not, has reduced the value of many of the SEO "tricks" and "tips" we may pick up here. So if you have spent a lot of time on those, the value may not be as much as in the previous year.

[a1call]

Hi,
I have theorized before. In my opinion since google is involved in 80% of the search performed on the web. The new index contains much more sub-pages than before and is returning these thus people finding what they are looking for faster. So they don't have to keep looking. In my oppinion the drop is due to reduced untargeted traffic and is not necessarily a bad thing. Now only people which are looking for your site hit rather than people looking for something else.

[StanBo]

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