MyDogHasFleas

I have experienced a sudden drop in mobile traffic. I have about 10% of the mobile traffic that I had. I was redirecting it via htaccess to a traffic broker. The traffic is from about 200 or so sites. The odd thing is... The rest of my traffic has not dropped at all. No drop whatsoever.

Has anyone experienced anything like this? My host says everything is fine. I tested sending the traffic to someone that wanted to buy it and he says the numbers are low too. I just can't figure out what has caused this to happen. I think if Google stopped sending mobile traffic to people redirecting that this place would be full of people complaining. I can't make sense of this at all. I'm receiving all other traffic just fine.

Klen

Same here,but still need to test do i indeed have lower traffic coming or is there a glitch on side of traffic broker since that is how i count my mobile traffic.

MyDogHasFleas

When did you notice the drop in mobile traffic?

Ross

Why are you redirecting your traffic for short term revenue? Build one kick ass mobile site, send it all there and watch it grow, sell your ads and probably make more money.

Klen

Incident occured on 9.6.2014 day.Tho on day 3.6.2014 it was also drop.

MyDogHasFleas

Did you notice a drop in all of your traffic or just mobile traffic?

18teens

Same here and I can't figure out why. My drop started 3 days ago.

Klen

Nop,just mobile traffic.It seems this still going on,hoped how it was trafficbroker error in counting but it wasn't.Gentleman's ,we are getting SCREWED !

ColgateTotal

Google doesn't like redirect, check google webmaster tools for manual actions

megapower

If you got some search traffic from Google and do 301/302 redirects in best case you got a lower position in worst remove from index and the result is drop of mobile traffic instead a growth.
Listen what Ross told you and do it.

Klen

Yes this could be due search engine traffic drop,i did noticed a small drop of se traffic on desktop traffic and mobile se traffic is usually bigger then desktop se traffic.
And when it comes to alternative,if the shit become serious(but i dont think redirect is cause of this,more likely usual se fluctuation)i can still improvise by not redirect us mobile traffic and redirect all other,or atleast those one which bring serious money.

Klen

Hmm,i just checked my sites and it seems most of them are -deindexed . LoL.

MyDogHasFleas

The only difference I've noticed is the mobile traffic. All other traffic is the same. It was like a switch was turned off. All of a sudden it is gone. I've never seen anything like it.

Klen

You should check your sites are they indexed by typing info:domain.com -if no results back,then it is deindexed.Noticed one pattern,sites with stronger backlink profile weren't deindexed,only dropped in ranking while those with weak backlink profile were deindexed.

MyDogHasFleas

I did that for just a few of them and it seems that is what happened. What are the value of deindexed sites? I guess I will either sell them off or let them die.

Klen

It depend howmuch revenue they will generate without any google traffic,meaning does it generate bigger revenue of registration fee or willing boundary (meaning how it should generate atleast 5$-10$ monthly otherwise it's a waste of time)

Klen

Also where did you sent your mobile traffic,to a sponsor or traffic broker?

MyDogHasFleas

I redirected it to a traffic broker.

Klen

Which one?I asking since it is obvious how this was algorithm action,there is way way toomuch sites for manual action.

MyDogHasFleas

I don't want to say publicly because it may have nothing to do with them.

Klen

Send a PM then

MyDogHasFleas

I've never used Google's webmaster tools before. I had a lot of sites that were deindexed. Would I benefit from adding them all and asking them to reconsider? It seems like a lost cause to me, but who knows.

Klen

I got someone else who got de-indexed for same reason,he submitted reconsideration request and got re-indexed in a week.I'l stil try to reindex without that,but if it wont work then i will have to submit.

MyDogHasFleas

I may give that a try. I have a lot of sites and that is my concern. Too many sites would look too spammy to them. But, at this point there isn't much to lose.