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Hi All,
Been working on businesses eversince reading TMF a few years ago. Failed some businesses but some are also generating profit which allow me to work on the big project that will chance my life.
However, my website suffered a sudden great loss in rankings which I can't explain. It happend since 25 august and rankings are still dropping. Not small drops from position 3 to 6 but from 3 to 80+...
I've learned online marketing the last few years and although i'm no expert I do know must stuff that is important. However, I'm looking for awnsers to this drop in ranking for over a week now but nothing makes sense. THe site seems completely fine, doing sales and steady rankings for years. Rankings did not change for at least 12 months. Some URL's dropped a few spots and some gained a few but that's expected. Sometimes there are noticable spikes when rankings drop from 3 to 80 but that is always restored the next day. Now, rankings only seem to drop even further...
There are some updates done to the Google algorithm lately. Mainly Google SERP using H1 as their title instead of the Title in google search results. Been missing some H1 on some pages but that should not cause any drops in ranking. Also, pages that did have H1 also dropped in ranking.
The other update is about Google page experience (loading speed). Search console now has the option to check your site and page vitality. According to search console, 99,9% of all my pages are healthy/ok. Nothing is wrong according to search console. Other sites now ranking in our spot do even have worse speed results when checking with Google Lighthouse/pagespeed.
The last update is about Google link spam. I hardly have any backlinks. I did remove some that might seem spammy. But most links are there for many years. Not used any spam link tactics or whatsoever.
Also, all these Google algorithm updates were already rolled out before 25 aug.
Site been growing in traffic over the last few years althoug COVID messed some things up (site is related to travel and restaurants). Bing does not show any drop in rankings. So it does seem Google related.
I've done all checks I know about and searched for other things to check but can't find any. It simply does not make any sense at all... But 66% lost in traffic also means 66% less sales... looks like we got some kind of penalty for some obscure reason.
I'm out of idea's and options. Maybe someone with knowledge about rankings/SEO/Marketing can help me finding out what the * is going on. In return, maybe I can help you with something related to online marketing/seo sharing knowledge or something else.
If you want to help I can send more details in a private message. Not wanting to spam everything here.
Thanks for reading!
Been working on businesses eversince reading TMF a few years ago. Failed some businesses but some are also generating profit which allow me to work on the big project that will chance my life.
However, my website suffered a sudden great loss in rankings which I can't explain. It happend since 25 august and rankings are still dropping. Not small drops from position 3 to 6 but from 3 to 80+...
I've learned online marketing the last few years and although i'm no expert I do know must stuff that is important. However, I'm looking for awnsers to this drop in ranking for over a week now but nothing makes sense. THe site seems completely fine, doing sales and steady rankings for years. Rankings did not change for at least 12 months. Some URL's dropped a few spots and some gained a few but that's expected. Sometimes there are noticable spikes when rankings drop from 3 to 80 but that is always restored the next day. Now, rankings only seem to drop even further...
There are some updates done to the Google algorithm lately. Mainly Google SERP using H1 as their title instead of the Title in google search results. Been missing some H1 on some pages but that should not cause any drops in ranking. Also, pages that did have H1 also dropped in ranking.
The other update is about Google page experience (loading speed). Search console now has the option to check your site and page vitality. According to search console, 99,9% of all my pages are healthy/ok. Nothing is wrong according to search console. Other sites now ranking in our spot do even have worse speed results when checking with Google Lighthouse/pagespeed.
The last update is about Google link spam. I hardly have any backlinks. I did remove some that might seem spammy. But most links are there for many years. Not used any spam link tactics or whatsoever.
Also, all these Google algorithm updates were already rolled out before 25 aug.
Site been growing in traffic over the last few years althoug COVID messed some things up (site is related to travel and restaurants). Bing does not show any drop in rankings. So it does seem Google related.
I've done all checks I know about and searched for other things to check but can't find any. It simply does not make any sense at all... But 66% lost in traffic also means 66% less sales... looks like we got some kind of penalty for some obscure reason.
I'm out of idea's and options. Maybe someone with knowledge about rankings/SEO/Marketing can help me finding out what the * is going on. In return, maybe I can help you with something related to online marketing/seo sharing knowledge or something else.
If you want to help I can send more details in a private message. Not wanting to spam everything here.
Thanks for reading!
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