Was my website affected by the Panda or Penguin updates?

[andrej]

I wonder if my website was affected by the Panda or Penguin Google updates? My traffic dropped from 700 visitors daily over 2 years to just 40.

Here are the details:

- on 13 July 2011 the traffic dropped from 700 daily to 400 daily

- on 4 Jan 2012 the traffic went back to 700 daily visits

- on 28 April 2012 the traffic dropped to 200 daily visits

- then the traffic was slowly dropping to 100 daily visits

- till today the traffic has slowly dropped to just 40 daily visits

Note: The dates above can vary 2-3 days.

[goodroi]

Why can the dates vary? In your analytics did the drop happen on one day or slowly over several days?

[Planet13]

Also, did you confirm those drops against your server log files or a different analytics program (such as statcounter), or are you relying simply on google analytics?

I ask because there was a time when GA was showing one of my site's traffic cut in half for about 6 weeks, and then it mysteriously recovered.

But when I checked the server logs, the traffic showed no decline.

So either google was having a brain cramp or I somehow removed the GA code from some of my pages.


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Agree with goodroi: Can you provide more details of the exact dates of traffic drops?