Re-posting an article that went to oblivion?

Google hid my best-performing post. The post was ranked positions 3–5 for the focus keywords, and it was bringing around 50% of the traffic to this website.

I saw I had an issue with a product snippet (affiliate review block), there was a red warning about missing price field. I fixed it 2 weeks ago and re-send the URL from my GSC. Still, to date, there is no change and I’m starting to think of re-posting the article again with a new slug and redirecting the old one to it.

Do you think that would be a smart move, or should I wait longer?

P.S. The original URL is indexed, but not showing anywhere in the first 100 results.

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I’m starting to think of re-posting the article again with a new slug and redirecting the old one to it.

Do you think that would be a smart move, or should I wait longer?

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it would be interesting to see. I don't know what will happen, but if you have no other way of bringing that page back you should do it

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P.S. The original URL is indexed, but not showing anywhere in the first 100 results.

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I have a sneaky suspicion that they're doing this to force you to buy ads. Just a hunch, I can't prove anything...

Wow, today (8-10 hours ago) I finally decided to re-publish the article. I only changed the slug, and copy-pasted it 1:1.

Then 301 redirected the old URL to the new one.

The result:

- The main keyword is now ranking #16 (previously, before the issue was 5th position)
- The second main keyword is now at position #8
- and some long tail keywords appear #2,3

Very happy with this, and hope it will improve in the next days.

A short summary of the issue: My article got a schema missing price red warning, and completely dropped out of the SERPs. I waited 3 weeks after fixing the issue with no result. Today it finally ranked again, when I republished the article with a new slug.

So far we have changing URL + 301, removing videos, reducing content length and full rewrites for the latest HCU.

Glad you have seen improvements OP, but any other details would reatly help those trying to understand the update. Cheers

dandan594594 what is the success rate with these steps? In some articles, I succeeded only in changing the title, while in others I needed to add a decent amount of content.​

Others seem to not react to anything.
I recovered 19 out of 71.
Changing the URL is resolving the issue 100% time?

its very tricky question but I don't think so its safe for your website .

I don't believe it's safe for website

Yes, you can re-post an article that went to oblivion.