Decline In Traffic During US Thanksgiving Day or Unconfirmed Google Algo Update?

by 2d0k

Posted: 13 years ago 16 replies

I experienced a 20% to 30% decline in web traffic since November 20. Could it be because of the Thanksgiving day? Most of my web visitors come from the USA. Did you experience a web traffic decline also? Does this usually happen during this time of the year?

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McBrett 13 years ago

Yes.. A lot of websites will experience a traffic drop over the Thanksgiving holiday. I would expect to see the same at the end of December around xmas.
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sovereignn 13 years ago

A lot of people in the US are traveling so they wont be on their computers.

So expect this around any holiday where people travel to be with family and loved ones
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sdlive 13 years ago

i run a big adult site and it increased
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GGpaul 13 years ago

One of my sites increased tremendously. That's because of my niche and Black Friday.
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- 2d0k 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by GGpaul
  
  One of my sites increased tremendously. That's because of my niche and Black Friday.
  
  You might get an increase in your sites' sales on "Cyber Monday" as well if those are e-commerce sites..
  
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AngelaLuo 13 years ago

My sales dropped during these days, I was worrying about it now I am relaxed.
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- 2d0k 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by AngelaLuo
  
  My sales dropped during these days, I was worrying about it now I am relaxed.
  
  I felt apprehensive also Angela, it's good to know that this is the direct reason for the traffic decline. I thought that there was another Google algo update or something.
  
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fanta81 13 years ago

I saw the same decline too on my couple of websites.
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- MRamocsai 13 years ago
  
  I saw a decline with most of my sites. I think it's only natural considering people tend to be away from the computer on holidays. The variable that would change things in the case of Thanksgiving would obviously be black Friday.
  
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howto 13 years ago

My traffic drops on weekends. Holidays are the same. People generally browse the web if they have nothing better to do.

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yukon Banned 13 years ago

I bet Amazon is getting hammered with traffic right about now.
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shab 13 years ago

mine dropped 20-40%
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Shout Out Digital 13 years ago

Yeah holiday season drops are quite common depending on your type of website. Most people are with family, on vacation or out the house. However Google did supposedly do a small update just before Thanksgiving so please double check your rankings to see if those keywords that dropped traffic have dropped in the rankings.
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- 2d0k 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Shout Out Digital
  
  However Google did supposedly do a small update just before Thanksgiving
  
  Do you have a link to this info?
  
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GGpaul 13 years ago

Yukon nailed it. I hope I make a lot of money tonight so I can pay the bills lololol
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2d0k 13 years ago

I've done a little search. It seems that, aside from the Thanksgiving holiday, the decline in web traffic was due to a Google algo update at about a day or two before Thanksgiving. It's not yet confirmed but it is probable.

Was Google trying to hide this algo update by implementing it before Thanksgiving when web traffic naturally declines on this day?

Info about the recent updates:

Google Panda Refresh #22? Did Google Just Update?
Google Image Search Ranking Update: November 2012?
Google Says Panda Update Coming Soon But Won't Confirm Weekend Update

I smell something fishy..
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