Recently seen a large decrease in pages crawled per day. Also see a significantly high increase in time spent downloading page. See images below.
Does anyone know what would cause this? I've had a look around online and people are mainly suggesting its due to high page load speeds. But the...
There are a few known bugs with yoast causing issues with sitemaps. I am 99% certain that the issue was caused by yoast. Soon as I installed Google XML sitemaps and re submitted, all of my rankings came back. Literally within 5 mins.
FIXED!!
The issue was with the piece of shit Yoast XML sitemap issue. When I have disabled the yoast xml sitemap option, I then created a new sitemap with https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/
Then submitted the XML sitemap and requested index
Then fetched and rendered the...
Thanks everyone for the replies. So looks like I have an algorythmic penalty as such. The link building is pretty much grey hat. Paying for guest posts on bloggers sites. I wouldnt of thought that this would trigger a penalty because I have used this technique on many other sites and they havent...
Hi JamaicanMoose,
Basically all my keywords totally tanked in the space of two days. Look at my traffic:
No reason for this at all other than potential penatly :(
I feel like one of my sites has got a manual google penalty. However, I do not have any notifications in search console. Anyone have any ideas if they still send them out?
Yeah to be honest I made these changes by accident, therefore didn't realise they where "no idexed" till I had a look through my search console. That's why my initial thought was a potential algo update.
Yeah you are correct! I should of left well alone! :(:(:(
traffic and rankings still decreasing. I don't think this is a manual penalty as I do not have any messages in search console. One thing I noticed around the time of the drop was in my "post tag sitemap" a decrease in indexed pages. You can see on the 28th the drop in indexed pages. A day or two...
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