September 29th 2012
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I was looking over the analytics of close to 200 sites because we have seen a large decrease in traffic. The 200 sites are all independently owned by clients but all began to hurt last year.
Looking over analytics from every site I can pinpoint that on September 29th all the traffic stopped, like someone flipped a switch.
Prior we were seeing 800-1000 hits from Google a month per site and now we are lucky to get 100-150 hits?
What the hell happened? The sites all use the same structure but each site is on its own domain name and each site is managed separately.
An example is www.SearchBuford.com
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Sounds like that was one of the updates for Panda Sept 28ish. Sounds like you got the Google smack like many people did.
If these websites all reside on the same c-Block, then you probably got caught "if" you were building a network of sites to interlink to each other.
There are many posts regarding Panda update 2.5.
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