Sudden Ranked Drop? Google Algo Update?

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nakamura said:
Traffic drops because pages get deindexed which results in loss of rankings. Happens for me too. This happens to normal websites. For Pinterest, Tumblr and other High DA websites there are not such problems, they are not getting deindexed. Thats why the serps are full of shit for some search terms. Normal websites are being removed from the serps, while authority sites won't face this issue and just take over the serps...even they have some low quality spun content.
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means reindex will not help?
 
bahus said:
One of my websites that was hit on Jan 7th, 2020 did recover a bit, about 25% of lost traffic after the Sunday/Monday, Feb 9th and 10th update. Didn't do anything to it. Just let it sit for a while. From the feedback here and elsewhere by now I have a pretty good idea of what went wrong and why it was hit. In my case, it comes down to on-page and anchor text in relation to keywords on-page. Neven meant keyword stuffing on purpose, just did what worked with moderation. Apparently that's not good enough now :) I don't take it personally, just see it as 'collateral damage'.

As I mentioned previously, forget about a uniform approach to SEO, you need to analyze how things fit together (on-page, links, anchor text) in the context of your website. Last but not least, I never had an issue with google deindexing my posts, so those who are still dealing with it might be facing a different problem. Google is known for doing updates targeting different things in one update just to confuse the SEO community. Like it or not, that's how it is now.
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Are you saying that your internal link anchors were exact match, you had too many keywords within your content and after fixing this, your site has been re-indexed and is back to normal? How long did it take to bounce back?
 
aw5 said:
Are you saying that your internal link anchors were exact match, you had too many keywords within your content and after fixing this, your site has been re-indexed and is back to normal? How long did it take to bounce back?
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What you are saying is interesting. Can you expand more on what you did with your links and KW distribution?
 
I don't know what half of you are talking about.. there has been an algo update. This is why your keywords and traffic tanked across the board. Quit with all the crazy theories. Google has also mentioned it had indexing issues through gsc, this is why some of the indexers aren't working.
 
aw5 said:
Are you saying that your internal link anchors were exact match, you had too many keywords within your content and after fixing this, your site has been re-indexed and is back to normal? How long did it take to bounce back?
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I'm saying that my external links' exact match was too high in relation to the same keywords on-page. Pages with high exact match were hit, pages with generic anchors were not. And that's what I'm fixing now. As for full recovery, it's too early to say, time will tell.

I don't think that internal links have anything to do with this. Besides, all my internal links are nofollow. And if you read my post I said that I never had any issues with google deindexing my posts.
 
JonnyCicci said:
What you are saying is interesting. Can you expand more on what you did with your links and KW distribution?
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There is nothing I can do with the existing external link as I have no control over them. All I can do is create more links with generic anchors and/lower my keyword density/change placement. Right now I'm working with keywords on my posts. I'm not building any links. Also, as an experiment I have disavowed a set of links with the highest exact anchor, it's too early to say if this will have any effect. Time will tell.
 
bmxryder711 said:
I don't know what half of you are talking about.. there has been an algo update. This is why your keywords and traffic tanked across the board. Quit with all the crazy theories. Google has also mentioned it had indexing issues through gsc, this is why some of the indexers aren't working.
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I think take turns to affect one another ? for me is indeed coming to me. Last week coming to weekend , start to see the drop effect , till now.
 
Alright, I have a bit of an update since my last post about a month ago. As of about 5pm today my pages have reindexed and have begun retaking some of their old rank positions. The ONLY thing I've done since I lost my rankings and my website starting deindexing was removing websites that were 301'd to my money site. I went from top 1-3 for most keywords to either 50+ or deindexed. As of tonight about half my rankings have come back and most money keywords are back to the first page. Unfortunately, not in the top 1-3 positions but at least making some money and giving me some hope.

I can't say if it was the 301's, a google indexing bug, or some combination of variables.
 
semiprodota said:
Alright, I have a bit of an update since my last post about a month ago. As of about 5pm today my pages have reindexed and have begun retaking some of their old rank positions. The ONLY thing I've done since I lost my rankings and my website starting deindexing was removing websites that were 301'd to my money site. I went from top 1-3 for most keywords to either 50+ or deindexed. As of tonight about half my rankings have come back and most money keywords are back to the first page. Unfortunately, not in the top 1-3 positions but at least making some money and giving me some hope.

I can't say if it was the 301's, a google indexing bug, or some combination of variables.
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thanks for the update.
I don't have any 301's to all my sites tho..
and the index are still reducing daily, not adding up.. it's weird.. still.. its been a month now I guess.
I hope there is fresh air that google fixing this crawling and indexing issues slowly..
 
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