Website traffic has dropped, What's the problem?

[mkimpro]

Does your website have this problem? (attach file)
I've heard some opinions that it's because of the Pagerank index, what do you think?, the content is written by humans, not AI.
My website is experiencing a drop in traffic as shown in the image, I'm looking for a way to fix it. Does anyone know the reason and how to fix it?. Please share with me. Thanks you!

 

[tazarbm]

well, it's hard to say what's wrong with your site when we only have a screenshot of the traffic levels (over a long period of time too, which makes it even harder to pinpoint the culprit since we don't know the exact week / month when the traffic dropped, although it looks like middle of 2023, so probably June-July-August or so...)

Also, judging by the ultra sudden and total drop it's possible that you have been completely eliminated from google by... well.. google

Did you at least check whether your site is still indexed? If you've been de-indexed you're screwed, I don't think you can get back... But if you've only lost rankings but you're still indexed you might be able to bring it back. But again, how you can bring it back is hard to say because we know nothing of importance, such as:

- the niche, and types of keywords you've targeted
- the exact date of the traffic / rankings loss
- how well your site is optimized
- how good / well optimized your content is
- what technical errors your site has
- how good / safe your domain is
- etc...

If you can share these details with us (just don't share the domain name and the keywords you target), we might be able to help. Otherwise you'll have to figure it out yourself, or pay someone to run a complete site audit for you and give you solutions...

 

[mkimpro]

well, it's hard to say what's wrong with your site when we only have a screenshot of the traffic levels (over a long period of time too, which makes it even harder to pinpoint the culprit since we don't know the exact week / month when the traffic dropped, although it looks like middle of 2023, so probably June-July-August or so...)

Also, judging by the ultra sudden and total drop it's possible that you have been completely eliminated from google by... well.. google

Did you at least check whether your site is still indexed? If you've been de-indexed you're screwed, I don't think you can get back... But if you've only lost rankings but you're still indexed you might be able to bring it back. But again, how you can bring it back is hard to say because we know nothing of importance, such as:

- the niche, and types of keywords you've targeted
- the exact date of the traffic / rankings loss
- how well your site is optimized
- how good / well optimized your content is
- what technical errors your site has
- how good / safe your domain is
- etc...

If you can share these details with us (just don't share the domain name and the keywords you target), we might be able to help. Otherwise you'll have to figure it out yourself, or pay someone to run a complete site audit for you and give you solutions...

Hello
My niche: Automotive
types of keywords: keyword info
Half of the urls have lost their index. I'm looking for the reason why my website was penalized by Google. My website is a blog.

 

[tazarbm]

Half of the urls have lost their index.

"lost their index" means they've been taken out completely from google's index and that's a serious issue, and could be attributed to any of these:

- google has caught you building links and they've deindexed your pages and there's nothing you can do to bring them back (at least I don't know how)

- those pages are using copyrighted content and they've been DMCA'd by google at the request of the owner of the content (or it could also be a competitor who had DMCA'd your pages, this happens too)

- they are mostly duplicate content, mostly AI content, or mostly garbage content, or any combination of these 3 things (garbage = doesn't address the intent of the keyword and / or poor English)

- the pages have been noindex'd by either a plugin (usually caching, SEO, or sitemap plugins can do this, so check those plugins carefully), or by yourself by accident (check the robots.txt file, the .htaccess file, and the meta tags of the de-indexed pages and if you see the word "noindex" anywhere in there it means that something's noindexing them and you need to check what I said and remove the noindex from the source)

If by "lost their index" you actually referred to rankings then the situation is not as bad, but it could remain bad if you don't address it. But if you've lost rankings we would need to see the pages and to also know when the rankings dropped in order to be able to figure out a solution, but you've not told me yet WHEN the pages lost rankings. Check the GSC and post a screenshot of the clicks + impressions over the last 2 years so we can see the month / week when this happened.

Although, to be honest, you can check this for yourself, have a look at google's major updates and see if you can associate one of them with the date when your rankings dropped, and then look up on the forum (or in google) for solutions, as I don't remember everything that's happened with google over the last years so I can give you the solution:
Google Search Ranking Updates | Google Search Central | What's new | Google Developers

 

[psychicrajsharma]

well, it's hard to say what's wrong with your site when we only have a screenshot of the traffic levels (over a long period of time too, which makes it even harder to pinpoint the culprit since we don't know the exact week / month when the traffic dropped, although it looks like middle of 2023, so probably June-July-August or so...)

Also, judging by the ultra sudden and total drop it's possible that you have been completely eliminated from google by... well.. google

Did you at least check whether your site is still indexed? If you've been de-indexed you're screwed, I don't think you can get back... But if you've only lost rankings but you're still indexed you might be able to bring it back. But again, how you can bring it back is hard to say because we know nothing of importance, such as:

- the niche, and types of keywords you've targeted
- the exact date of the traffic / rankings loss
- how well your site is optimized
- how good / well optimized your content is
- what technical errors your site has
- how good / safe your domain is
- etc...

If you can share these details with us (just don't share the domain name and the keywords you target), we might be able to help. Otherwise you'll have to figure it out yourself, or pay someone to run a complete site audit for you and give you solutions...

could be due to outdated SEO strategies, algorithm changes, or technical issues. Let’s diagnose and fix the problem to get your visitors back!

 

[Fixgee]

Google must findout some serious issue for your site as few pages are completely removed, Did you purchase some backlink recently, If yes remove links from the source.

 

[QuirkQuest]

Does your website have this problem? (attach file)
I've heard some opinions that it's because of the Pagerank index, what do you think?, the content is written by humans, not AI.
My website is experiencing a drop in traffic as shown in the image, I'm looking for a way to fix it. Does anyone know the reason and how to fix it?. Please share with me. Thanks you!

I could have said it is Google update but the vertical decline in traffic is quite alarmin. Did any/some of your posts get de-indexed? Have you been monitoring your site speed too?
There is a lot that could cause this..
I believe the solution to this problem is right there at your search console dashboard.

 

[AllenGoogleAds]

If your competitors are improving their SEO, it could affect your traffic