Drop in google.com / referral trafic

[AdrienLargus]

Hi,

On one of our sites (after the release of a new version, including redirections), we've seen a drop in referral trafic from google.fr (france). I know that this trafic usually comes from Google Images but it doesnt seem to be the case this time. The referal path is "/" and not "imgres" as it usually is when it comes from google images.

The search trafic hasnt dropped tough...

The site is a job listing site. We also saw a drop from indeed.com, I guess their crawler got lost in our new site...

Any idea on the possible google site it could come from?

Thank you,

[katemorris]

I'm so sorry Adrien, I never saw this response. Did you figure this out?

[katemorris]

Apologies!

You got Google France traffic in the past and now it has gone away. Is France a major market for you?

I've seen this happen before but I've never been able to identify where it came from. The only thing I can think of is checking your site's log files to identify the IP address and research that way. But that's very intensive work.

[AdrienLargus]

We also read it could come from

• Google Alerts : www.google.fr/alerts
• Google Custom Search : www.google.fr/cse?

Any idea on finding who could use google custom search to redirect trafic to us?

[AdrienLargus]

Hi Katie,

Thanks for your answer! Well no it is not the case! Our site never drew much trafic from google image (job listings are no that exciting haha).

The total traffic from google.fr dropped significantly. This is very surprising, we have no idea where this trafic was coming from!

[katemorris]

Just to clarify, you are still seeing the same amount of traffic from google.fr, just not from /imgres?

If that's it, there is one possibility that the information is being lumped into one large referrer. This happened a number of years ago with google.com. Images traffic was shown separately and then one day merged. Quite annoying to my images based client.