Google Page Level Penalty for Comment Spam – Rankings and Traffic Drop
The morning after I arrived home from my post SMX Advanced holiday I got up early to check my site traffic. Not to mention the personal achievement of being up and working before 7am on a Monday (this is good for me…), I even managed to resist the temptation of logging into Analytics on my iPhone for an entire week while I was in Italy too. Surely the start of a very productive week. Sadly, I found a bit of a suprise. My blog traffic had dropped!
To ease myself back into blogging (and to provide some traffic dropping, Google page penalty based entertainment for SEOgadget readers) here’s the story on what happened:

