As a new blogger with no prior knowledge of SEO, I created this website four years ago and have been publishing articles on it ever since. However, when I had started receiving some traffic and earning a little ($100 every four months), my site got hacked, and everything went haywire. The incident was so demotivating that I lost all interest in blogging, and it was one of the saddest days of my life.
As a result of the hack, I got banned from Google. Although I was not deindexed, many pharma and spammy URLs got indexed, which I later disavowed and removed the malicious code. After a few months, Google started sending me traffic again, but Yahoo and Bing didn't, which was my primary source of traffic. Consequently, I lost 50% of my traffic. It's been almost a year since I got rid of the malicious code, but I'm still not getting enough traffic.
When I search for my website on Bing and Yahoo using the query "site:mysite.com," I get no posts of my website.
Which should mean I have been deindexed, right?
However, when I perform an exact search for the title of my post like "very specific keyword search" it appears. So, what's the issue?
I'm getting very little traffic from Bing and Yahoo, about 2-3 organic visitors every day. I am bitterly disappointed and would appreciate any tips you may have.
I wasn't earning much, but the stats of my site were going high, which gave me satisfaction as I had finally started getting results for the hard work I had put in over the years.
If you guys have any tip, please share that with me. And thanks for reading.
As a result of the hack, I got banned from Google. Although I was not deindexed, many pharma and spammy URLs got indexed, which I later disavowed and removed the malicious code. After a few months, Google started sending me traffic again, but Yahoo and Bing didn't, which was my primary source of traffic. Consequently, I lost 50% of my traffic. It's been almost a year since I got rid of the malicious code, but I'm still not getting enough traffic.
When I search for my website on Bing and Yahoo using the query "site:mysite.com," I get no posts of my website.
Which should mean I have been deindexed, right?
However, when I perform an exact search for the title of my post like "very specific keyword search" it appears. So, what's the issue?
I'm getting very little traffic from Bing and Yahoo, about 2-3 organic visitors every day. I am bitterly disappointed and would appreciate any tips you may have.
I wasn't earning much, but the stats of my site were going high, which gave me satisfaction as I had finally started getting results for the hard work I had put in over the years.
If you guys have any tip, please share that with me. And thanks for reading.
