Prepare for a Traffic Dip Ahead

Its holiday season, All office goers and school going teenagers are utilizing their holidays to visit their friends and relatives. They are getting busy with their offline activities, so they don’t have time for their online activities. As a direct result, we (bloggers / webmasters) are facing a mercurial dip in our traffic. Even your regular commentators might disappear for few days.

I’m already feeling the punch, this graph proves it all:

As a side effect, my revenues have also significantly decreased. I’m sure that the situation will worsen in the upcoming keeps, but it should improve by the first week of January.

Did you see a drop in your traffic?, share it with us (comments are open)

This post was published by on December 17, 2006

About the Author: Thilak Rao works as a Social Media Expert. He is one of the first professional bloggers from India, and he loves to write, travel and click photos. Follow him on Twitter @thilak

  • http://www.groklife.com Chad

    I’ve seen a dip in traffic to several of my affiliate sites. It’s good to know I’m not the only one that has been affected.

  • http://www.rishiraj.info Rishi

    Hmm…!

    Same with me! My average visits was 500 uniques per day and has never gone down to 200…but yesterday it was horrible…69! :(

    Hey Thilak bhaiya plz recomment some tricks yaar! So that we bloggers can have a good holiday ;) !

    One thing I noticed was during Diwali then I wrote a post on diwali shopping etc., I drived about 800 uniques…so it maybe that if we implement this here also…we can succeed!

    Okay thanks!
    waiting for your reply!

  • http://www.vincentchow.net Vincent

    What about something like this?

  • http://www.freakitude.com Lovedeep Wadhwa

    my website traffic stats almost same as of now.

  • http://www.rishiraj.info Rishi

    Hmm…you are right!
    Yesterday I got my least no. of uniques…shame on me – it was 69!
    Before my minimum traffic was upto 250 uniques!

    and one more thing…if we give a post of HOW TO WISH YOUR BELOVED HAPPY NEW YEAR AND X’MAS IN AN ONLINE WAY…we may drive some traffic as I did during Diwali season!

    Waiting for your tips and reply!

  • http://www.sewj.com Sujan Patel

    Less traffic to websites but more traffic to shopping malls :(

  • http://www.sewj.com Sujan Patel

    btw. love the snow flakes

  • http://www.helloashok.com Ashok

    Shopping sites may be getting high traffic, as many people are busy in shopping

  • http://stevenbao.com/ Steven Bao

    Agreed, Thilak. I am planning to release another article on my blog on Sunday so that hopefully some people might be able to read it.

    Then again, I don’t have many readers ;-)

    Nice snowflakes.

  • Linu

    I began to Post Christmas related Article from November and by end of November Google indexed almost 50 christmas related articles from my blog..

    As a result, now I am getting christmas traffic!

  • http://www.proxynetwork.i.ph Myspace Vtunnel Proxy

    yes i also experience this i have a bunch of proxy and when the vacation comes my earnings also decrease. i got one article that i read they look for keywords that will give you a definitely traffic.

    right now i’m focusing on the VEDIOS,VIDIOS,VEDEOS keywords.

    and i got traffic now from this..