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the only thing I can think of is that my site was slow for a few days at the begining of the month (due to database problems). Also, we had 3 pages where all the links on these pages were broken. We have fixed this since, but our traffic is still dead!
It's important to note yahoo and MSN have not slowed at all.
What gives?
Zack
If not welcome to the club.
Wouldn't hurt if you had different titles for each page on your site. You're missing alot of potential.
This could very well hurt you.
tablehtmlheadbody
I think the problem in your database can be the cause. Let me tell you my experience.
My site have the following pattern of googlebot visits since january: first and third/fourth week of the month, kind of deep crawl; rest of the month 1 to 5 visits daily (mainly to the homepage). During June, the last ten days of the month, the site was working really bad, due to hosting problems. If googlebot was there trying to deep crawl the site, it couldn't. First days of july, site disappears from google searchs, and you can find it only with site:www.mysite.com, but with no tittles no cache.
I was worried about the possibility of a penalty, but couldn't imagine why. But now seems not to be a penalty because googlebot is doing its deep research of the beginning of the month. And because the few pages it crawled the past week are fine in google searchs. I hope the site will be back again in the searchs in the next two or three days.
If it goes as I hope, I'll add another tip: you need a site with rich content, no tricks, easy to navigate, good tittles, and a good hosting.
Patricio
It looks like you have a <table> above your <html> and <body> too.
Your index page has a table tag before the html tag... you have three head tags and five body tags in that page. I'm really astounded the page renders in my browser and can't think what a spider would make of it... Fix those mistakes before you do anything else. Looks like you are using MS frontpage - dump it and learn HTML.
The problem isn't with FrontPage, it's with the user. Telling the guy to get new editing software isn't going to help him and could very well make his problem even worse. (If he can't figure out how to use FrontPage correctly, he sure as heck isn't going to get very far with hand-coded HTML.)
he sure as heck isn't going to get very far with hand-coded HTML
Then maybe he's in the wrong business
Your HTML is a little messed up….
Might help you to check this out
Good Luck
Skippy
Then maybe he's in the wrong business
I wasn't under the impression that he was running a Web-design business. :-)
What he really needs to do is (1) hire someone to help him straighten out the existing mess and create some page templates that he can use in FrontPage, and (2) learn how to use the program.
sports workout, you should identify the keywords and phrases you want to be found on, then adjust your page titles, onpage content and even intra-site linking to reflect this. Even a commercial site can find ways to load more keyword text on to a page without spamming.
2. Your site has duplicate content problem. I looked at 2 product pages and copied a sentence from the main description and pasted in google. It turned out many sites are selling the same products and using the same description. This could be the cause for your faking traffic from Google.
