Traffic is up, sales way down

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#1

After Google’s very weird “updates” from November and December, which appear to have completed before the end of December, my traffic is noticeably better. However, this is NOT reflected in sales - they have almost disappeared in January!

I wonder if this bad sales phenomenon is because G has finally mastered the dark art of filtering traffic so well that in the end we webmasters get only worthless traffic that doesn’t convert at all, while G keeps all the good paying visitors?

Or maybe people are just jaded and broke after the holidays…?

How have your sales been in January so far?

#2

My traffic hasn’t had any big changes, sales have been “normal” but perhaps slightly lower than last year. Hard to tell yet though, still fairly early in the month.

Each year seems to go down about 10-12% from previous year though, starting 5 years ago.

#3

We’re seeing some weirdness also. Affiliate sales are down, but product sales are up. Traffic is slightly up across the board.

I think most people are just tapped-out after the holidays.

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