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(Entry was posted by Diego Santos Sicardo on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 10/10/2014).

Yesterday traffic completely dropped off one of our pages.

Hi,
Yesterday traffic completely dropped off one of our pages.
Traffic to the rest of the website has not been affected at all but these two pages have flat lined.
I have checked rankings on these keywords and they both return on page 1 as they always do so they can be found. 
I have no crawl errors or manual actions in webmasters and tracking code seems fine. 
Can anyone make some advice? ?
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  • Diego Santos Sicardo: Hi,
    Yesterday traffic completely dropped off one of our pages.
    Traffic to the rest of the website has not been affected at all but these two pages have flat lined.
    I have checked rankings on these keywords and they both return on page 1 as they always do so they can be found. ;
    I have no crawl errors or manual actions in webmasters and tracking code seems fine. ;
    Can anyone make some advice? ;
  • Mark Steenbakkers: +Diego Santos Sicardo did you find out what caused the sudden drop off?
  • Diego Santos Sicardo: not yet. Traffic is back to normal but we had several hours with no traffic at all
  • Mark Steenbakkers: The pages flat lined for a few hours and then they recovered? You didn't make any changes to the pages? Server update or something like that?
  • Diego Santos Sicardo: Yes. That’s right. Nobody was at the office when it happened so we are pretty sure it wasn’t something we did. It seems as if that page disappeared from the SERP for a while...
  • Mark Steenbakkers: There were some Google algorithm updates, maybe Google was testing an update. There was some turbulence on the Google algorithm weather report http://mozcast.com/
  • Diego Santos Sicardo: Thank you for your input, +Mark Steenbakkers ;. I also think that’s the most likely explanation. Still very odd.

View original question in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 10/10/2014).