Dropped from $600/month to $50

[Elephant Agent]

I have a website (using wordpress) which is mainly used for PPD, has a couple of links to cracked programs/serials etc..
Anyway I use to make around $500-$600 per month, had it on autopilot for around 3-4 months, earnings were dropping but only slightly but then a huge drop in both traffic and earnings happened. A screen shot below shows the drop in traffic:

img4.imageshack.us/img4/4555/traffics.png

What could have caused this?
And is there anyway I can fix this?
thanks, any help will be appreciated!

 

[dropsy16]

How were you getting your traffic initially?

 

[Anderson108]

Going to need way more details to answer such a general question.

 

[Elephant Agent]

Was getting most traffic from google and other search engines/dailymotion videos
videos are still up.

 

[tomsko]

It all depends on your traffic source, looking at earnings drop doesn't solve anything. Are your videos still ranking for kw's?

 

[acotut]

In case you were using Organic trafic,what methods you used to rank?
Also,have you investigated your link profile lately,in case of Neg seo attack?

 

[Elephant Agent]

videos are still ranked, I've checked.

 

[SEO_Alchemy]

You're rankings dropped, you lost traffic. Plain and simple.

 

[dropsy16]

Links still up?

 

[Elephant Agent]

Links still up?

Yes, links are up.

 

[KeyzDT]

You're rankings dropped, you lost traffic. Plain and simple.

I'd say this sums it up. Now the next question is why did your rankings drop?

 

[ehinoze]

I'd say this sums it up. Now the next question is why did your rankings drop?

did you totally leave it on auto pilot?if yes then thats the problem.when you plant and rest too much, the weeds take over the garden.my advice is try to take back your garden.do you have backups of your videos?check if they re still ranking.check if they are still on.check if your cracks are getting outdated or invalid.3-4 months is enough time to get outta business

 

[imperial444]

Check your Google Analytics and see what serps brought you the biggest traffic, then check those positions in google and get results.

 

[kuzmanin]

Try also YouTube traffic
It is still easy to rank video
Google doesn't like hacker sites and don't rank them good in search results

 

[SMMCity]

Try also YouTube traffic
It is still easy to rank video
Google doesn't like hacker sites and don't rank them good in search results

Very true, I have to use YouTube for traffic.

 

[Deleted member 658642]

Hmm what method to get traffic? rankings or YouTube?

 

[prab1996]

tis can be because your videos are old or you need to upload new videos about new products .

 

[thetraveller]

Hmm what method to get traffic? rankings or YouTube?

He said he had google searches and some dailymotion traffic.

A ranking position will vanish sooner or later (my opinion), the best option is to continually add new content so the traffic will catch up form other search phrases.

 

[jascoken]

There are many possibilities as we all know, and traffic is like women and shoes; if you can get a firm handle on it, then you're a better man than me...

But the main thing that you should have done, that was in YOUR direct control was rinse and repeat what you'd done before...

...What if you did the whole thing from scratch every month, with new hosting, content, designs, etc. all new and removed from your old site. And what if you started this a year ago? You'd probably have 4-6 ranking in the top 10, and the loss of 1 would just be an annoyance, as you'd have others on the way up.

i say this to IMers ALL the time. If you can create a $500-1000pm site then for God's sake replicate it. This is the easy route to $3-5k p.m. Then you can build from there with a base income in place that's not reliant on one site.

 

[umerjutt00]

You situation is very much similar to me. I think the problem is the very high bounce rate because the visitors quickly click on the download link and do not spend much time on your site due to which Google starts thinking that your website is not useful which ultimately results in drop in rankings. Another possible reason can be a penalty.....