Can anyone diagnose drop in organic traffic? (Screenshot attached)

[SamCUK]

I have an unexplained drop in google traffic on the 9th July. There are no messages in webmaster tools and no onsite or link building had taken place. In fact there were no changes at all. The only possible thing I can think of is that for some time I have had a problem where the bounce rate for my site was 95% plus in analytics. That data is wrong as the website is converting 1in 10 visitors and for them to  convert the bounce rate would 90% (If EVERY other visitor bounced) as they have to visit several pages to do so.

Any help appreciated!

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[SamCUK]

sales on the site have dropped so its not just an analytics reporting problem I don't think.

[StreamlineMetrics]

A drop this significant makes me think the Google Analytics tracking code has been removed/changed or otherwise broke somehow on the majority of the pages of your site and thus is not capturing the majority of the tracking data. It's happened to me multiple times when I uploaded a footer include file that didn't have the GA tracking code on it and overwrote the existing footer file which did. Have you confirmed that the GA tracking code is working properly on every page? Here's a great Chrome extension - Google Analytics Debugger - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-analytics-debugger/jnkmfdileelhofjcijamephohjechhna?hl=en

[SamCUK]

Yep there is some very weird stuff going on. Many first pages have in the top 5 that have come from nowhere and according to MOZ have 0 domain authority. These must be new sites that somehow pop up in the top 10! Maybe google now 'tests' new sites on page 1 to see their worth... who knows.

[SamCUK]

Adult dating sector.

[SamCUK]

Thanks I'd appreciate that.

[Trespass]

Its not a site I can look at from our office but can take a look tonight for you.

Robert

[xoffie]

What sector is your website in?

[donatasBart]

I've been working on escort website, and since panda rolled out, strange things started to happen on the adult section... And strange things still continue to happen.
My task was to do SEO for most popular keyword for escort in uk, and recently i started to see massive search result changes. Usually google showed about 40 000 000 results, this friday it showed less than 10 000 000, today it's 20 000 000, the same is happening on all modifications of that keyword.
I would guess that panda update had minor changes to adult content (not porn), but I have no clue what exactly. Tryed to analyze top ranking results, but they were changing very often, and sometimes even brand new domains, without high DA and PA authority were on top results.

[SamCUK]

Hi,

All keywords have dropped. I have seen this before and site recovered a few weeks later for no reason whatsover. Google seems to be particularly volatile at the minute and search results seem to be poorer than ever.

It could be panda I guess. I read the article Trespass and perhaps google see's the content as poor quality? The site in question is an adult dating site so please feel free to take a look at the on site SEO if you're not easily offended! Any on site suggestions to combat panda are appreciated.  http://www.local-sex-search.com.

Apart from that I don't know what else could be causing the drop.

[Trespass]

Possible panda update http://searchengineland.com/google-confirms-panda-update-is-rolling-out-this-one-is-more-finely-targeted-167219

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Well bounce rates in Google Analytics are available to Google of course but aren't being used as a signal within Google Search. Did already check the nr of keywords which dropped in terms of traffic? This could indicate if your problem is through your whole site or if it just depends on a couple of keywords.