Search Traffic drops from 8000 to 50 in 30 minutes

[nandla]

I've a 2 year old site, was going good and had 7-9 K unique visitors daily from search engines.
On 25th April 2011 at 10PM (GMT+5), It had normal visitors online (67), after some 15 minutes, they all disappeared strangely. Traffic from 7-9K down to 100/150 visitors daily till yet.
I checked things i could like, robots.txt, meta nofollow.
And new pages are still being indexed in google but the traffic went down so harshly.
I want to ask what could be the reason of so fast decline in traffic from search engines.
Just in 30 minutes time, how search engines can push my site back and why?
* there was no any copyright content, i received no any email or complain.

[tedster]

Are you sure it is a change in your Google search rankings, rather than some other technical problem such as a DNS issue? If you are sure, then I'd say start pinning down which rankings you lost.

[lucy24]

What about non-search visitors? Did those numbers stay constant? Have you taken a closer look at your raw logs? Load it up in a text editor that's good with RegExes and do some number-crunching. Do the same thing for the previous 24-hour period and see what's different.

Was google visiting your site at its normal rate during the same time period that other visits dropped?

What about the error log? Anything unusual-- starting with its size?

[TheMadScientist]

And remember to empty your cache and view your own source code for a while, making sure to quadruple check for what seems to be the often unintended overuse of the <meta name="robots" content="noindex">.

[BillyS]

I own a domain say abc.com. It has a video script and it has 5000+ daily unique visitors. google adsense sent a message about usage of youtube abuse and disabled adsense ads serving on abc.com.

Now I want to make a new website and want to redirect my abc.com's visitors to new site say xyz.com but the problem is if i redirect 301 permanent to new domain. The URL structure will be different of new domain as compare to abc.com. So kindly suggest me the solution how can i redirect my traffic to new domain without losing SEO rank of abc.com.

Hi All.
I'm having very strange problem.
my site having 2 adsense codes on very top of the page and very bottom of the page, and i'm unable to find who have inserted these ads. my site has not been hacked, no any password change.

Sounds like game over for your site.

[indyank]

Billy, Whom are you quoting and what are you trying to say?

[indyank]

Ok I got it...

[pageoneresults]

Billy, Whom are you quoting and what are you trying to say?

I believe BillyS did what some of us would do, take a look at the OP's user profile and review the most recent topics they were involved with.

It appears that the OP have something fishy going on with their site. It could be a SQL injection hack or something similar. Previous topics have revealed that the OP may also be doing things that may not be in line with Google's guidelines.

[nandla]

Are you sure it is a change in your Google search rankings, rather than some other technical problem such as a DNS issue? If you are sure, then I'd say start pinning down which rankings you lost.

I've checked DNS issues and site is loading normal in all parts of the world.

What about non-search visitors? Did those numbers stay constant? Have you taken a closer look at your raw logs? Load it up in a text editor that's good with RegExes and do some number-crunching. Do the same thing for the previous 24-hour period and see what's different.

Was google visiting your site at its normal rate during the same time period that other visits dropped?

What about the error log? Anything unusual-- starting with its size?

Non Search Visitors are same. and i've not looked into raw logs of cpanel :(

And remember to empty your cache and view your own source code for a while, making sure to quadruple check for what seems to be the often unintended overuse of the <meta name="robots" content="noindex">.

I've searched, checked robots meta or robots.txt file but i dont think thats the issue.

Sounds like game over for your site.

Both Sites are completely different. hosted on completely different servers. other sites on this server working fine.

Ok I got it...

But I don't think at all that this is also an sql injection for what me search ranking dropped dramatically :'(

[nandla]

And Search Traffic have not been completely vanished. some 40/50 visitors are still coming from SE