{"id":38,"date":"2004-08-27T16:18:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-27T20:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/significant-traffic-change-reported-by-wmw-guys\/"},"modified":"2012-09-20T06:40:54","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T10:40:54","slug":"significant-traffic-change-reported-by-wmw-guys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/significant-traffic-change-reported-by-wmw-guys\/","title":{"rendered":"Significant traffic change reported by WMW guys,"},"content":{"rendered":"

Possible reasons speculated by the poster:<\/p>\n

1. Are they affiliate sites with many links to the affiliate host.
2. Do they have satelite domains which they cross link\/one way link with sites particularly on the same ip c-block.
3. Are the drop in serps keyword specific or site wide.
4. Are some inbound links on mass from single domains. For example, a great number links from a footer link on a major site.
5. Have changes been made to keyword density recently.
6. Is there a distinction in ranking between major and minor terms.
7. Has there been any PR changes or backward link changes.<\/p>\n

Read a long 5 page thread here (webmasterworld.com\/forum3\/25465.htm ) if you are interested,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently a lot of webmasters in WMW forums reported a significant loss of traffic from google, Also they faced major drop in keyword rankings, Here is a brief post by a guy who started that thread, Possible reasons speculated by the poster: 1. Are they affiliate sites with many links to the affiliate host.2. Do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pagerank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1702,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/1702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}