Google Analytics Traffic Loss (Going Back in Time)

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flowershopgirl

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Hey, I know this is going way back in time, but did anyone have a dramatic loss of traffic in Google Analytics in May 2007? We saw a HUGE drop in traffic right before Mother's Day last year, and it never came back. We assumed there was a change at Google and we'd see the traffic come back, but it hasn't.

Has anyone else experienced this?
 
flowershopgirl said:
Hey, I know this is going way back in time, but did anyone have a dramatic loss of traffic in Google Analytics in May 2007?
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Have you looked at the traffic sources to see exactly what traffic you lost (i.e., referral, direct, search)?

In Mar - Apr 2007, we suddenly lost ~20 visits a day. It turned out that these lost traffic was from images.google.com. Apparently one of our arrangement pictures was on Google Image. Meaningless traffic.
 
We saw the loss in every channel. The graph looks the same for each source. We are now at 25% of the traffic levels we were in April of 2007, and we're doing more new customer acquisition than ever. We're talking hundreds of visitors. I'm thinking Google was calculating bots differently for us or something.

Thanks for your reply. I'll see if we can pinpoint a particular image/page that was getting a lot of traffic.
 
Did you make any changes to your website around that time? Is it possible you don't have the tracking code installed on all the pages?

If you want to give me viewing access to your reports I can have a look for you and see if there is anything telling in the data. ([email protected])

Ryan
 
One other note about google analytics.

I have been noticing for some time that they now have a prefered domain setting. For us its always been set to not to associate a domain however it seems that becuase of the changes that google has made it may be very important to set this setting.

For us we have been seeing a flip flop of domains from our .com and .net and if the information that was given to me today is correct you should set your prefered domain especially if your using yahoo webhosting (Yea I know ryan).

I have made the changes today so I will see what happens.

There has been a report of data missing from Google about the same time period. At least that is what I am seeing from our Analytics as well as the message from google.
 
I've checked our GA accounts for a few sites, and I don't see the drop you mentioned. Since it's across all referral types for you, I'd suspect that the code was dropped from some of your pages.

Ryan
 
mlou said:
Offer the subject, but Eric, is Yahoo doubling your hosting fees July 8?

Heard their fees are going from $49+ to $99+

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Nope. But I did get the increase on the domain renewal notice.

:drumroll

Important note: Beginning on July 1, 2008, Yahoo!'s annual domain renewal price increases to $34.95 per year.

For a company that can't figure out how to let its existing customers create a 301 redirect I must say that they have some balls to increase their domain renewals.

Oh well I guess its time to start magrating my domains to somewhere else.
 
Important note: Beginning on July 1, 2008, Yahoo!'s annual domain renewal price increases to $34.95 per year.
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from what? $11.95/m?

....for a 2nd domain name and webhosted page that will redirect to our main page


godaddy does the annual domain much less, and better if you do it at 10 yrs
any pricing better than this?
 
Eric S said:
...Nope. But I did get the increase on the domain renewal notice...
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It's coming...Here is the notice...

Beginning with your next billing date on or after July 8, 2008, the monthly price of Yahoo! Store will increase from $49.95 to $99.95 per month. Pricing for item fees ($0.10/item) and transaction fees (0.50%) will not change at this time...

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mlou said:
It's coming...Here is the notice...

Beginning with your next billing date on or after July 8, 2008, the monthly price of Yahoo! Store will increase from $49.95 to $99.95 per month. Pricing for item fees ($0.10/item) and transaction fees (0.50%) will not change at this time...

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I have the standard Ecommerce. So I haven't seen anything yet.

$99.95 mth 1% Transaction fee (ba*tards)

Besides they have bigger problems that they need to address before they start loosing customers.

Let me think Domain forwarding issues!!!
 
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