What could a halt in affiliate sales mean?

I may be worrying for nothing.

[spikedo55]

Okay, go easy. I'm new to this game. I've had a site up for about 2 months that pushes products for one company. I started getting purchases every day, then on Feb. 7th they stopped. It's been four days now and the traffic is still coming. Is this normal? Could my rank in search engines dropped all of a sudden, giving me less quality traffic? Please offer any other possibilities that I could investigate. I already have an e-mail into the affiliate manager to make sure their system is okay. Thanks.

[jimbeetle]

Had the same thing happen to me awhile back and spent a harried week checking, checking and checking.

Turned out I had installed an update to Frontpage and the 'improvement' munged all the links to one program.

So, along with everything else check that the links are working.

Jim

[vibgyor79]

- If you have been fooling around with your pages, check all the links on your page

- You must be knowing your keywords for which your page is displayed on the search engines. Check 'em once.

- Make a test purchase using your credit card on your site.

[eljefe3]

One thing you need to do as an affiliate is to place a test order if you see somthing out of the ordinary. However I don't know if your situation is out of the ordinary as every day is different so perhaps your first two months were above average, and now the non-sales day are bringing the average sales per day back to a normal level. Over time you will see that there becomes an average number of sales per unique visitor.

[smackman]

another thing to look at might be your server logs / traffic stats. What's changed in the past few days, has the source of your traffic changed, did you get killed in a google update with some other traffic that may be less targetted replacing it? The server logs can be a good source of info. Also, do you have your outgoing links to the affiliate on any sort of a redirect so you can track for your own records the clicks to their site? If so, what's happened there? Are you still sending the same volume of traffic or has it declined?

HTH