Google referral traffic drop around 14th July 2014 (UK). Anyone else seeing it?
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We've seen around a 25% drop in Google referral traffic from the 14th July 2014 onwards and having real trouble identifying why and from what search terms we're being effected. WMT and Moz Pro don't show any movement. Is anyone else seeing the same thing on UK search terms?
Seems a bit late to be the effect of Panda 4.0?
Any help would be amazing.
Thanks.
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The Payday Loan 3.0 update hit around July 12th, but I've heard some chatter about weird referral data going around this month. Some speculated it was certain browsers (IE8?) misreporting and some speculated it was certain mobile devices, but I haven't seen a definitive answer.
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We have also seen a substantial change on July 14th on one of our sites. We are struggling to find what might have happened to make such a substantial drop (80% traffic has dropped). We're in the USA though.
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