Sudden Traffic Loss? Google Doesn't Send You Anymore Visitors? Here Is What To Check

181032 Resource 76407 24 21 1188265009837 1200767395796 Controlled Blog Content Quality Monitoring is Mandatory -- Ignoring it May Get You Banned From Search Engines

Some things are learned the hard way -- at MyST we provide an extensive review of the technical quality of your blog content every 7 days -- here's why this is so important.

This is a story about one of the most professional bloggers on the planet (Robin Good) and how his site was <a title="Sudden Traffic Loss? Google Doesn't Send You Anymore Visitors? Here Is What To Check" href="http://www.masternewmedia.org/online_marketing/traffic-issues/sudden-loss-of-web-traffic-possible-causes-google-dance-google-sitemaps-20070813.htm" target="_blank">banned from Google</a> for something so simple.In a nutshell, a malformed URL was all it took to suspend the Google Crawlers and cause a sharp decline in traffic. <a href="http://www.masternewmedia.org/online_marketing/traffic-issues/sudden-loss-of-web-traffic-possible-causes-google-dance-google-sitemaps-20070813.htm" target="_blank">Robin</a> describes his discovery...<blockquote dir="ltr" style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">"Blam. The error causing all of my trouble was sitting right there in front of me, waiting for action ... Invalid URL - This is not a valid URLThe <a title="Google Webmaster Tools" href="https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/about.html" target="_blank">Google Webmaster Tools</a> had identified it, dissected it, reported it and suggested how to fix it. It was just waiting for me there. A bad formed URL of an article was causing the Google spider to stop its crawling process and that caused Google to go in a standby mode with our web site and to basically withdraw our content from its search results until the issue had been fixed. "</blockquote>This is precisely the reason we provide Quality Assurance Reporting which includes a built a URL checker for every Blogsite. This feature scans every link in your blogsite once a week -- from your first post to the most recent -- and it reports anything that fails the strictest of HTTP standards conformity. It also provides a clear and concise report that links to each link in error making it a snap to correct.As our <a title="Understanding Blogsite Quality Assurance Reports" href="item/94149" target="_blank">Quality Assurance Reporting</a> guidelines indicate..."Link properties must contain a valid HTML 4.0 URL. The most common mistake is including leading and training spaces, since we tend to copy and paste URL's into the link property fields. URL's with leading or trailing spaces may appear to work fine in your web browser, but such URLs may fail with search engine crawlers or other web spiders. For this reason, such URLs are called out as QA issues."If you use Blogsite, take this report very seriously and review it each week if you recieve email alerts about quality issues. If you don't use Blogsite, consider spending some time learning the Google Webmaster Tools that can help you avoid a nightmare similar to Robin's.  9 application/xml false Blogsite Quality Assurance Reports Google banning invalid URL quality monitoring Sudden Traffic Loss? Google Doesn't Send You Anymore Visitors? Here Is What To Check A few days ago I was to wake up to a pretty strange surprise. All of the traffic coming to MasterNewMedia from Google had suddenly disappeared. From over 14,000 visitors to 4,000 and less is a pretty big change from one day to the next. http://www.masternewmedia.org/online_marketing/traffic-issues/sudden-loss-of-web-traffic-possible-causes-google-dance-google-sitemaps-20070813.htm What I can recommend ... find a way to automate this [quality checking] process... Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 aseidl 68.40.167.222 false true false false true 174050 false false true false false false true 76407 blog blogsite/Blogsite/web