Lost Google Traffic beginning on Jan 5

[dailypress]

hello all,

Im not very familiar with Google Penalty and just started learning a bit after losing 87% of traffic a few days ago.

On Jan 5th my traffic dropped to 34% and today it dropped to 13%.

How do I know with what kind of penalty I was hit? How do I know what the reason was? Can someone please give an intro?

My main keywords jumped to page 2 when they used to rank number #1 or #2 on first page of SERPs.

Is this a penalty or is Google just playing around with SERPs? I havent made any changes for a while and dont know why my traffic suddenly dropped!

My Google Images had dropped from the Image Serps a while ago. I dont know why that happened either ?

im hating life right now! :(

[crobb305]

Dailypress, it just occurred to me that your penalty from Jan 5 to March 2 is a little under two months, not three months. I am assuming ur dates are correct. My 60 day mark is tomorrow, but I am not holding my breath :)

[dailypress]

youre right! sorry, maybe it felt like 3 months :)