Terrorist Attack Harms Even My Sites
Well, not literally.
But due to that terrorist attack in the city of Mumbai (India), traffic on some of my sites was reduced for around 2 to 3 days. Most hurt sites were educational and job related sites.
After the terrorist attack on Wednesday evening, the traffic reduced for the day. On Thursday, for some of my sites the traffic was reduced to around 50%. And so were the earnings.
Have a look at the traffic stats for one of my job related site, which is showing that the traffic for Thursday (27 Nov 2008) was reduced to half. The traffic slowdown even carried to Friday and somewhat on Saturday as well.
When I checked my stats for those days, I thought may be something went wrong. May be I lost some search engine rankings, or one of my servers went down temporarily. I checked all of it. No rankings were down. No server went out. The traffic was reduced for many of the sites and across the servers. So the only explanation I could give myself was that this happened only due to that terrorist attack in Mumbai.
Did any of your site suffer such attacks? Or, did you even check your stats for those days yet?
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Jim Karter on December 1st 2008 in Business, Earning Money, General
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35 Responses to “Terrorist Attack Harms Even My Sites”
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Abhishek responded on 01 Dec 2008 at 1:45 am #
True!! everyone was glued to the Television to see whats happening in the terror attack places in Mumbai.. so high traffic for news channel
Dirk responded on 01 Dec 2008 at 2:38 am #
This weekend was Thanksgiving weekend in the States, that’s the main reason you had less visitors.
ROW responded on 01 Dec 2008 at 2:58 am #
Same here Jim.
Also, I agree with Dirk. Whenever there is a holiday in US, traffic dips on my education related blogs.
Vasu responded on 01 Dec 2008 at 3:29 am #
TOI says that it has got 9 million views on those 2 days
Every one is eager to know whats the present
situation —
Create a news portal then:)
Mickey responded on 01 Dec 2008 at 5:20 am #
Yep, check your US traffic. Unless your site is about football or turkey-preparing, you saw a big drop last Thursday for the holiday.
Mega Champ responded on 01 Dec 2008 at 8:46 am #
Indian traffic must have been affected due to the Mumbai attack, even i was glued to TV all day long, Pretty dark 3 days.
Gustafson responded on 01 Dec 2008 at 10:07 am #
Your traffic for for the holiday days appears to match your weekend traffic pretty well.
That tells me that a significant amount of your traffic normally comes from people looking at your content from their places of employment.
If you have Google Analytics try to run a search to determine the traffic change by region. If the main change is the USA, then you should be pretty sure that the reason is due to holiday schedule changes.
kent responded on 01 Dec 2008 at 12:26 pm #
I am a first year adsense publisher. The last week in November saw a 40% drop in daily earning. (I have sites mainly in health and cosmetic surgery in English.) Is this typical for you? Thanks…
jackie sheeler responded on 01 Dec 2008 at 1:38 pm #
this is an undeniable example of the interconnectedness of absolutely everything in this speeded-up world. while that can at times be a positive, we see one piece of the downside in your reports.
this is also true environmentally. more plastic bags get tossed in city A and fish drop dead in ocean B.
talk about universal!
Mat responded on 01 Dec 2008 at 2:13 pm #
yeah…but still..your traffic is high
zoki responded on 01 Dec 2008 at 3:16 pm #
But i had the best traffic because i was ranked for one of thenksgiving keywords
Teaching Job responded on 01 Dec 2008 at 5:56 pm #
My traffic takes a dive every year at that time because of the Thanksgiving holiday.
My prayers have been with you and everyone in India. Such a tragedy, the terrorist attacks were.
Learn SEO responded on 01 Dec 2008 at 5:56 pm #
Nope…never had a site suffering from such an attack, but I know many families who’s relatives died that would have not wanted to read such post…sorry to say that.
Jim Karter responded on 01 Dec 2008 at 9:15 pm #
Learn SEO, the purpose of the post is that such attacks hurt the businesses and economy as well.
Intra day tips responded on 02 Dec 2008 at 5:28 am #
Yah i saw the same results in some of my sites too.True facts guys!
Make Affiliate Money responded on 02 Dec 2008 at 6:49 am #
Don’t forget it was Thanks Giving in the US last week which also impacts heavily on internet usage.
JZ
jawaan responded on 02 Dec 2008 at 7:07 am #
it did make little bit differnce but not that much. as your sites suffered jim.
kent responded on 02 Dec 2008 at 10:53 am #
In jim’s defense:
Learn SEO, do we really have to be so ridiculously politically correct to mention the obvious, that these things are very upsetting, sad and frightening? This is after all a “make money online” site.
Make Affiliate Money responded on 02 Dec 2008 at 12:52 pm #
It affected only Indian traffic based sites.
AllofInterest responded on 02 Dec 2008 at 3:47 pm #
It was ThanksGiving, thats why some of my blogs traffic was reduced but this one ,I got flood of traffic.
Terrorism hurts everybody,everything some or the other way, that is also correct
Jim, have you ever used any HYIP ?
Envirogle responded on 02 Dec 2008 at 5:01 pm #
Ouch, hard hit.
The terrorists used AK’s and Grenades???, why not just a bomb?, just a question.
@jim
Are most of your sites indian based?
The 9 day wait for the post was painful
Julius Orias responded on 02 Dec 2008 at 7:52 pm #
Hi Jim,
Yes, it is not good what is happening this day even economies are going down and also our online business, but great job here sharing the knowlegde that you have to others. Finally, my business start flooding of orders after learning how the top marketers doing.
Cheers,
Julius
Picture responded on 03 Dec 2008 at 4:51 pm #
I wish i had your traffic
Envirogle responded on 03 Dec 2008 at 10:50 pm #
@picture
It takes time and great enthusiasm for the niche to be able to build up traffic.
If you had Jim’s traffic, you will lose most of it in under a week, and have nothing in two weeks time.
It is not only about getting the traffic but keeping it.
10k-20k uniques daily is definitely realistic, not easy, but with some determination and good niche selection, great content and advertising you will get that traffic.
Make Affiliate Money responded on 05 Dec 2008 at 6:40 am #
[quote]Make Affiliate Money responded on 02 Dec 2008 at 12:52 pm #
It affected only Indian traffic based sites.[/quote]
How can someone use the same name? Just to point out that this guy is not me!
JZ
kent responded on 05 Dec 2008 at 7:17 pm #
traffic returned…
Bike Advice responded on 08 Dec 2008 at 10:01 pm #
I guess the whole of India was watching the TV instead of browsing
whiteblogger responded on 10 Dec 2008 at 12:41 am #
hoho. its really happen? its fine with my site.
tkada.com responded on 10 Dec 2008 at 5:46 am #
It is not because of any other reason, whether server or rank down,anything other than that but all because of the devastation due the terrorist attack in Mumbai-India, as What you told, where people affixed to television focusing into the news clips relating force full consequence of Mumbai city.
And we too had affected by the drawn-down traffic of our site.
Srednarb responded on 13 Dec 2008 at 8:05 am #
did not happen on sites, besides i recieve no to little traffic on india
greencard responded on 24 Dec 2008 at 11:06 am #
Is there any information about this subject in other languages?
daaan responded on 02 Jan 2009 at 6:49 pm #
I wish i had your traffic
YJ responded on 22 Jan 2009 at 12:15 am #
that is crazy, you never believe that things like this is connected
ZK@WebTrafficROI.com responded on 28 Jan 2009 at 9:53 am #
So that means most part of traffic to your websites are coming from India. And if Mumbai play a significant role than I am sure you got less traffic.
That’s why I prefer to have such websites which have international market and traffic.
Abhijeet Mathur responded on 24 Oct 2009 at 10:50 pm #
Your traffic has certainly reduced but it is very high as compared to other bloggers.