I would like to thank everyone for all the help. I've learned alot reading the great forum posts here.
I've gone from a few hundred visitors a day down to 46 one day this week. Google has totally frustrated me, and I give up. I've tried redesign, keyword work, unique content, no sneaky tactics, and we've gone further and further in the hole since February.
I just can't take it anymore, and I give up. I am going to let the site flounder because I'm going crazy trying to keep up. It feels like I read and read and work and change things and nothing helps and its getting worse. We are doing awesome in MSN serps and very well in Yahoo serps, but google we're awful. And thats where all our visitors and sales "came from". So thank you so much for letting me vent and whine.
I love reading the forums here, and will continue to read because its fun and educational. But I give up !!
Good Luck to everyone with all your websites, and take care !!!
Thanks for the reply. I have thought about it, but my budget is even lower than my visitor count lately !!
I was kind of hoping that some good old fashioned elbow grease, and honest work would help me, but.............
It's been awful since February, we were in the top 3 in serps for most of our products until then. Now yikes, I give up. I've been trying to make up the lost ground for almost 6 months now, and have gotten worse instead of better, so.
Maybe in a year, they'll change their algo, and we'll bounce back !!! LOL !!
It was a lot of work down the drain, but at least I learned alot in 1 1/2 years and had fun trying.
I'm not sure how much it costs to maintain the site, but I would maintain it if possible. Keep adding content and getting links and good things will happen.
I was complaining about one of my sites for years on this site, so long I stopped checking Google's results. Then someone told me that I was actually in the Google SERPs.
Don't give up! Sometimes you just need time. Just follow the basic rules. Get some good inbound links and just wait a few months...
...I find a good tactic is to not fret about day to day results. Link building is an ongoign long term task, when you come accross a good potential link partner, take time to come to a good arrangement with them. This is better than trying to get many links quickly. A few good, and well placed links are much much better than hundreds of lower quality links.
I think that's a good approach Linda. Keep in mind not all traffic needs to come from search engines either. By the way if you post a link to the site I'm sure many here will be happy to take a look and offer suggestions.
I think that's a good approach Linda. Keep in mind not all traffic needs to come from search engines either. By the way if you post a link to the site I'm sure many here will be happy to take a look and offer suggestions.
If you lose visitors for 1 day just give up.... saves you the aggravation and stress.
Alternatively you could embrace SEO and start by getting a site review. Spend some money on advertising for commercial site or link exchange for content sites.
If you lose visitors for 1 day just give up.... saves you the aggravation and stress.
Johan007,
It wasn't a loss of visitors for 1 day, its been a steady drop in visitors since February. I've been trying since February to right the ship, if it was a day or a month or two I wouldn't be stressed, however after 6 1/2 months of trying things are getting worse, not better and the one day that I mentioned was the newest of new low points.
Maybe I should have made that more clear. I thought on my post on 8/9/06 that I mentioned how long its been going on and that my budget didn't allow for advertising at this time and that I was hoping hard work and honest attempts at seo would help some.
Totally Frustrated by Google and Giving up !
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