Drop in traffic after Post Audits

[Pam Danny]

Over the past 2 weeks, my new site had been experiencing a steady increase in traffic. So 2 days ago (Friday), I edited about 4 posts that I rank 11-50 (I think all are 2x), and added or removed sections according to other top ranking competitors.

I also added about 6 new articles.

But yesterday I realised the traffic dropped. Weekends I usually get less traffic, but this dropped drastically.

Does it have anything to do with the edit? Any suggestions on what to do?

 

[SilverSultan]

Hi there, could be the recent google updates, here is a good link explaining why rankings, and keywords drop - https://www.contentkingapp.com/academy/ranking-drop/faq/organic-traffic-drop/

Try to add quality backlinks, such as guest posts that are relevant.

 

[Fang Yu]

Why did you change your top-performing articles?
Is there any reason you think it will rank better?

 

[SirLouen]

Over the past 2 weeks, my new site had been experiencing a steady increase in traffic. So 2 days ago (Friday), I edited about 4 posts that I rank 11-50 (I think all are 2x), and added or removed sections according to other top ranking competitors.

I also added about 6 new articles.

But yesterday I realised the traffic dropped. Weekends I usually get less traffic, but this dropped drastically.

Does it have anything to do with the edit? Any suggestions on what to do?

A/B test now. Recover content as-is of some 50/50 of those articles and see for 1 month how it evolves: are the dropped domains staying there while the recovered increase in ranks?

It's 100% impossible to understand whats going on with the information you give with more preciseness, so you might need ultimately to A/B test and see how it evolves.

 

[Black Belt Spodermen]

Does it have anything to do with the edit

I don't think so unless you have changed some of the most crucial information like titles and the content itself to a great extent.

 

[Pam Danny]

Why did you change your top-performing articles?
Is there any reason you think it will rank better?

The articles I edited are some of the worst performing. As I said, they were all on the 11-50 position. They were getting on average 1 visits daily. I didn't touch the best articles in page 1

 

[Pam Danny]

A/B test now. Recover content as-is of some 50/50 of those articles and see for 1 month how it evolves: are the dropped domains staying there while the recovered increase in ranks?

It's 100% impossible to understand whats going on with the information you give with more preciseness, so you might need ultimately to A/B test and see how it evolves.

But considering the 4 posts I edited barely got more than 1 visitors daily,do you think anything? These were some of my worst traffic posts

 

[vriskas]

There is almost always an initial drop for a few weeks after updating content as Google decides where it deserves to rank now. Give it time.

 

[Pam Danny]

There is almost always an initial drop for a few weeks after updating content as Google decides where it deserves to rank now. Give it time.

My major concern is that my main ranking posts which I didn't edit dropped ranks. And I made sure I didn't fiddle with links in the edited posts