Rapid changes in website traffic & visibility

Jinxer

Jinxer

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Hey folks,

I'm confused with the behaviour of one of my sites. Here is what happens:

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There was a Google Search update (marked "1"), but the problem seems highly unlikely to be connected with it (IMHO).

How do you think what could be the reason for such a dramatic fall in visibility (no manual sanctions applied)?

My hypothesis:
  1. Toxic backlinks: there were created about 20 web 2.0 profile backlinks which is about 10% of all linking domains
  2. Content issues: there is a large amount of pages, about 100 of 200 existing, that have not unique content (product descriptions, etc)
  3. Low uptime: during this period there were 3-4 times that the server was down because of me idiot
  4. Your theory
Since the drop is THAT sharp, I believe there is only one main reason for it.

What's your opinion?



Many thanks in advance :)
 
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Nah, seems like the changes match Google updates. I say the algo is seeing something good and something bad and switching between believing in your website and not trusting it. Work on it more, to overcome what the algo sees as bad and you should get back to your traffic
 
The opposite to many in the forum (incl. me). So weird.

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Jinxer said:
  1. Low uptime: during this period there were 3-4 times that the server was down because of me idiot
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You are shooting yourself in the foot if your server is not stable, but I guess you know this already.
 
SunnyLeon said:
Nah, seems like the changes match Google updates. I say the algo is seeing something good and something bad and switching between believing in your website and not trusting it. Work on it more, to overcome what the algo sees as bad and you should get back to your traffic
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This. The changes in fact DO match the Google updates.
There's essentially been a (major) Google update every single month for the past 3 months.

Here's a list of Google updates: https://developers.google.com/search/updates/ranking
 
thedorf said:
You are shooting yourself in the foot if your server is not stable, but I guess you know this already.
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Sure you are right. Let's say migration is in progress, heh
 
Sweely said:
This. The changes in fact DO match the Google updates.
There's essentially been a (major) Google update every single month for the past 3 months.

Here's a list of Google updates: https://developers.google.com/search/updates/ranking
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Thanks for the link!

But again - what could be the change that cuts the traffic and brings it back in a period of 10 days? It seems sooo strange
 
My $0.02.
I believe it has nothing to do with downtime.
I think the problem is the content.
 
praetserge said:
My $0.02.
I believe it has nothing to do with downtime.
I think the problem is the content.
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Thanks. Will try to figure out what could be the problem with content...
 
seem like what we like to call google dance.
but you cann try checking your backling, improving site page, and reviewing unpopular article
 
Jinxer said:
Low uptime: during this period there were 3-4 times that the server was down because of me idiot
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low uptime is the answer here. This happened to me as well. My site was DDOSed for a month nothing was able to keep it up but after that, I managed to learn something to defend it and keep my site up. During this time there was a huge loss of traffic almost 200k users.
 
akaseo said:
low uptime is the answer here. This happened to me as well. My site was DDOSed for a month nothing was able to keep it up but after that, I managed to learn something to defend it and keep my site up. During this time there was a huge loss of traffic almost 200k users.
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In my case the uptime dropped to about 98%. I can imagine that the impact of the 1-month long DDOS attack is much more terrible..
 
Here is an example of another website with similar behaviour:

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Here is an example of another website with similar behaviour:
mrneedles said:
Looks like they were hit by the aftermath of Spam Update on 28-30th October.
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The strange thing is that those 2 sites have different content structure and backlink profiles. One is 200-page website (≈ eCom), another is 200k+ pages informational content site.
 
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