Website Goes As Google Goes - on a 2-day cycle?

Its Amazing How Google Makes My Site Tick or Not

[JoeHouse]

In regards to just organic traffic its truly amazing how my website goes as google goes.

When google is good to me (they seemed to turn on a switch or something)my site does wonderfully with real traffic and great sales.

When google is going through some flux/changes (they appear to have turned the switch off)everything and I mean everything comes to a hault!

This has been going on for several months.

What I am seeing is very weird and needs an explanation from my fellow experts in this forum as to what may be happening.

Does this mean this may be the start of something great happening? Or is this going to be a lifetime struggle?

It appears I am on a two day on and a two day off system with Google. Meaning no two days are alike in both traffic and sales.

Example: Monday and Tuesday killer traffic and lots of sales. Wednesday and Thursday traffic in cut in 1/2 and no sales. Then picks up again on the weekend.

Just when I think I got it all figured out saying to myself well Monday and Tuesday are hot traffic/sale days, as soon as I open my mouth the following Monday and Tuesay I am in a funk with less organic traffic and no sales, then Tuesday and Wednesday it picks up again etc...

There appears to be some type of cycle for sites who have not yet gotten fully established on the search engines (In Google's Eyes).

Is anybody else noticing this cycle or am I going nuts!

[mattg3]

It becomes increasingly a nightmare. So don't think about and accept Google reliability converges to zero and develop your business around that..

Just don't ask ne how? Lol.

[inbound]

Google have invested heavily in infrastructure to allow more regular tweaks, and they're certainly making the most of their new-found ability.

Google has so much traffic that it's possible to get a good idea of how changes have effected user experience in a very short period of time.

We may have seen the last BIG update, it's going to be a roller-coaster ride.

[Bewenched]

We have a very well established site 7 years, use sitemaps... all white hat and I swear over the last few months that google must think we are in a different timezone or something. Most days are fairly quiet with the phones .. but boy .. hit 1pm or so and it goes ape.

I have seen the same cycle on our site as well. Everything was VERY busy first part of the week, but yesterday and today have been quite slow.

[JoeHouse]

Bewenched exactly!

Very busy early part of the week and yesterday and today nothing.

I am experiencing the same thing over and over again. The frustrating part is that I was hoping that I would get to a point where my website would be stable enough to quit my day job.

However if this trend (cycle) keeps up there is no way I can make this my main source of income!

It almost appears Google is juggling the traffic this way on purpose so that we would need to buy some expensive ads on adwords.

[mattg3]

we would need to buy some expensive ads on adwords

The only stable technique I guess is ads offline or anything which does not involve Google.

[craigpet]

This seems to be the case with my site also. It is a 7 year old ecommerce site. I think the traffic and order surges are from google but I am not postive.

It seems like google has 2 indexes and everytime they switch indexes there will be a surge that lasts a couple of hours.

Another observation is that each time a surge occurs, I receive orders for a different group of products. This makes it very hard to determine inventory quantities.

I am wondering if any content sites are experiencing this or if this is something google applies to ecommerce sites.

[Bewenched]

we would need to buy some expensive ads on adwords

The only stable technique I guess is ads offline or anything which does not involve Google.

We have had very very little sucess with adwords. I've been in thei biz over 10 years now and have little to no success with adwords on basic keywords... you really have to be specific to the terms like

Insted of
widgets

we would do
[widgets for blue whatnots]

you have to put them in brackets for the key phrases to be exact. yes this does mean alot key phrases to manage but when they are specific the cost is low enough and the results specific enough to work.

[edited by: encyclo at 6:21 pm (utc) on Jan. 29, 2007]
[edit reason] fixed formatting [/edit]

[madmatt69]

I seem to be on this cycle too. Google's gone bi-polar!

[trinorthlighting]

Our eccomerce site fluctuates a lot. It really depends on the customers time zone, if they are looking, or not and even the season.

It really depends on what you sell and it also depends on serps as well...

[MThiessen]

Anyone else seeing a big blue box in Benwenched's post? Strange..

[trinorthlighting]

Yep, I am seeing it as well...

[stevegpan2]

I see this too. I guess google does this on purpose to increase adwords revenue. you know, they have to find new ways to make money.

[mattg3]

Now 2 result sets are circulating with 2 sets of pages with a 33% difference in pages indexed. Now the have lost it completely.