Google drop down - keyword gone, why?
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Hi guys, i received traffic off a yearly based term, this year for '2013' i noticed it is nowhere near what the yearly term was for the year before.
I believe that Google has stopped the yearly term appearing in a drop-down menu from a big volume related term, my question is how do they determine what goes in the drop down menu for related/relevant searches?
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Can you provide keyword phrase for us?
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What would cause something to disappear off auto complete? seems very strange it was there for ages and had great volume.
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Google Autocomplete is determined by a number of factors such as how popular certain word combinations are, their search volume, trends, etc.
http://support.google.com/websearch/answer/106230?hl=en
http://searchengineland.com/how-google-instant-autocomplete-suggestions-work-62592
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Yes auto complete drop down, or when you type a keyword a drop down below suggests an add on to the keyword. What decides what keywords go in there, do Google look at ctr%?
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Have you tried searching for your keyword in Google Trends?
I'm not sure what you mean by drop down. Are you referring to Auto Complete? Instant Preview (which just went away)? or something else
I've provided links on the terms above to resources if your question is regarding one of these topics.
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