Ranking drop for my website

Mathew_ said:

I’d check GSC before assuming backlinks. Compare the affected period by queries, pages, countries, devices, impressions, clicks, and average position. Also check indexing, manual actions, security issues, and Google’s ranking update history. If the drop is site-wide, investigate technical/content quality; if only certain pages dropped, compare those pages with the competitors now outranking you.
The header links may have helped initially, but the timing alone doesn’t prove they caused the increase or that backlinks caused the later decline. I wouldn’t make major changes until you identify exactly which queries/pages lost visibility.

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shahab3 said:

HI, I run a small web resource and untill 23 of jul, it only got higher and higher rankings. It reached its maximum of 2300 visitors per day, then suddenly dropped to 1500, then 700, 400 and now it continues to decrease, 200, 190 and so on. I didn't do anything to the website itself. Google search console just shows that I have smaller rankings than usual and doesn't report any problems.
On the graph you can see that I moved from 1-5 visitors per day to 30+ and after it only increased. Reason for that I added 2 links to my website header, they are just synonyms of the same word but it worked. My gues is that someone outranked my website through backlinks ?
What do I do to discover possible issues ?

I remembered then a week before sudden drop I requested google ads on my site, I added their script to my html. After that, they closed my google adsense account and said that I was violating their policy but it's not true. This is the first time I try to place ads. Maybe that could be the reason? They think that I violate rules and dropped my site in rankings.
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medialounge said:

From your submission, the decline began exactly at the time you requested for ads on your page. And since your backlinks seemed to perform well, you should isolate them from the issue. I am suspecting the ads request method. Google is becoming stricter by the day, so much so that a little trigger sets off negative reactions. Sort out the ads thing first then audit your overall page.

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shahab3 said:

HI, I run a small web resource and untill 23 of jul, it only got higher and higher rankings. It reached its maximum of 2300 visitors per day, then suddenly dropped to 1500, then 700, 400 and now it continues to decrease, 200, 190 and so on. I didn't do anything to the website itself. Google search console just shows that I have smaller rankings than usual and doesn't report any problems.
On the graph you can see that I moved from 1-5 visitors per day to 30+ and after it only increased. Reason for that I added 2 links to my website header, they are just synonyms of the same word but it worked. My gues is that someone outranked my website through backlinks ?
What do I do to discover possible issues ?

I remembered then a week before sudden drop I requested google ads on my site, I added their script to my html. After that, they closed my google adsense account and said that I was violating their policy but it's not true. This is the first time I try to place ads. Maybe that could be the reason? They think that I violate rules and dropped my site in rankings.
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astridmonroe said:

first i would use GSC to find out which exact queries nd pages have been losing clicks nd correllate it with the date of the drop. i do not think the AdSense script could have caused this issue.

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shahab3 said:

HI, I run a small web resource and untill 23 of jul, it only got higher and higher rankings. It reached its maximum of 2300 visitors per day, then suddenly dropped to 1500, then 700, 400 and now it continues to decrease, 200, 190 and so on. I didn't do anything to the website itself. Google search console just shows that I have smaller rankings than usual and doesn't report any problems.
On the graph you can see that I moved from 1-5 visitors per day to 30+ and after it only increased. Reason for that I added 2 links to my website header, they are just synonyms of the same word but it worked. My gues is that someone outranked my website through backlinks ?
What do I do to discover possible issues ?

I remembered then a week before sudden drop I requested google ads on my site, I added their script to my html. After that, they closed my google adsense account and said that I was violating their policy but it's not true. This is the first time I try to place ads. Maybe that could be the reason? They think that I violate rules and dropped my site in rankings.
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shahab3 said:

HI, I run a small web resource and untill 23 of jul, it only got higher and higher rankings. It reached its maximum of 2300 visitors per day, then suddenly dropped to 1500, then 700, 400 and now it continues to decrease, 200, 190 and so on. I didn't do anything to the website itself. Google search console just shows that I have smaller rankings than usual and doesn't report any problems.
On the graph you can see that I moved from 1-5 visitors per day to 30+ and after it only increased. Reason for that I added 2 links to my website header, they are just synonyms of the same word but it worked. My gues is that someone outranked my website through backlinks ?
What do I do to discover possible issues ?

I remembered then a week before sudden drop I requested google ads on my site, I added their script to my html. After that, they closed my google adsense account and said that I was violating their policy but it's not true. This is the first time I try to place ads. Maybe that could be the reason? They think that I violate rules and dropped my site in rankings.
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shahab3 said:

HI, I run a small web resource and untill 23 of jul, it only got higher and higher rankings. It reached its maximum of 2300 visitors per day, then suddenly dropped to 1500, then 700, 400 and now it continues to decrease, 200, 190 and so on. I didn't do anything to the website itself. Google search console just shows that I have smaller rankings than usual and doesn't report any problems.
On the graph you can see that I moved from 1-5 visitors per day to 30+ and after it only increased. Reason for that I added 2 links to my website header, they are just synonyms of the same word but it worked. My gues is that someone outranked my website through backlinks ?
What do I do to discover possible issues ?

I remembered then a week before sudden drop I requested google ads on my site, I added their script to my html. After that, they closed my google adsense account and said that I was violating their policy but it's not true. This is the first time I try to place ads. Maybe that could be the reason? They think that I violate rules and dropped my site in rankings.
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shahab3 said:

Actually there were technical difficulties that could make users quit my website faster than usual and google could see this and lower rank.

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