Hi Vance,

You also got similar huge ride as well? Very interesting! I understood that weight loss is a very competitive niche. I’m currently working on a new blog aiming at this niche.

Rudi

Hi Rudi,

Interesting post an I do agree that one never knows what Google will do.

I took me for a huge ride too, except that my traffic went down close to 80% in September and so far has not recovered.

I’m talking about my weight loss site which is in hugely competitive niche.

I’m glad that your traffic ended up being higher.
I’d be interested seeing your other blog since I might learn something more about guitars.

I play guitar.

Vance
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Thomas,

You are correct, it was not this blog. This month the traffic drops to 300 visits / day, still higher than it was before the sudden anomaly. More than 50% of traffic were sent by Google image search. I have quite a good number of pictures there because the blog is guitar niched and people are mostly looking for guitar chord charts or other guitar related pictures. Since the beginning Google consistently sent more traffic from images search compared to keywords search but I have no clues why it out of nowhere sent me huge traffic. Anyway I don’t see a way to apply this method to our IM niched blogs (or perhaps you have other ideas?).

- Rudi

Hey Rudiawan:

That’s pretty cool! Am I understanding you right that this is not this blog? I wonder if you found any clues as to why Google picked up on it all of a sudden?

If you could find the “how-to” behind this and repeat it in other niches/sites I guess that would be a huge deal!

Cheers,
Thomas
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