Traffic Dropped, Still not recovered after 3 months

new_don · Mar 27, 2023

Hi Guy, one of my tech website got hit by last week december 2022 google update and my traffic started dropping after 3rd jan 2023 below is the screenshot. It's almost 3 months now still the traffic is not improving even a bit. Also my server got hacked around the first week of january and the hacker added 5-6 pages (ecommerce pages) with 1000s of pages (dynamic pages) which the hacker got all indexed in google search console at the same time.

We have removed all those pages by google temporarily removed request option.

Can anyone tell me what are the things that you can suggest to help regain my lost traffic or do you think it is purely google search alogorithm case.

Any help will be really appreciated.

Waifu_tatyana · Mar 27, 2023

Seems like big G marked you as a spam AI site due to the bulk indexation by hackers.
Try to build backlinks and press releases I guess.
That's the only way I can think of to regain Google's trust.

Lwartini · Mar 27, 2023

What is your niche? Maybe YMYL

SirLouen · Mar 27, 2023

If you look to the Google updates, technicaly the one that must have affected your site should have been
https://developers.google.com/search/updates/spam-updates?hl=en
Just by analyzing the dates it happened

But just by seeing a little GSC graph, it's 100% impossible to discover the real issues behind that drop.

PS: Yesterday I finished watching the Rings of Power. I hope I had one of those Palantirs for SEO purposes.

paisawaisa · Mar 27, 2023

Lwartini said:
What is your niche? Maybe YMYL

Tech is not YMYL.

Martin Hagen · Mar 27, 2023

Sounds like the hackers gave you trouble. If you deleted their links, and are focusing on creating good content on your existing site and building some links, you probably just have to wait to get the ranking back. It won't bounce back instantly, just have to wait.

Lwartini · Mar 27, 2023

paisawaisa said:
Tech is not YMYL.

How do the sites which outranked you look different than yours?

lotsofmoney · Mar 27, 2023

Martin Hagen said:
Sounds like the hackers gave you trouble. If you deleted their links, and are focusing on creating good content on your existing site and building some links, you probably just have to wait to get the ranking back. It won't bounce back instantly, just have to wait.

These hacking related services are on rise. I assume there will be good demand for protecting or fixing sites after hacks in future.

new_don · Mar 27, 2023

Waifu_tatyana said:
Seems like big G marked you as a spam AI site due to the bulk indexation by hackers.
Try to build backlinks and press releases I guess.
That's the only way I can think of to regain Google's trust.

Thanks a lot for the suggestion. Will server help in this case?

new_don · Mar 27, 2023

Lwartini said:
What is your niche? Maybe YMYL

It's a simple general tech niche

new_don · Mar 27, 2023

SirLouen said:
If you look to the Google updates, technicaly the one that must have affected your site should have been
https://developers.google.com/search/updates/spam-updates?hl=en
Just by analyzing the dates it happened

But just by seeing a little GSC graph, it's 100% impossible to discover the real issues behind that drop.

PS: Yesterday I finished watching the Rings of Power. I hope I had one of those Palantirs for SEO purposes.

Thanks for replying.

new_don · Mar 27, 2023

Martin Hagen said:
Sounds like the hackers gave you trouble. If you deleted their links, and are focusing on creating good content on your existing site and building some links, you probably just have to wait to get the ranking back. It won't bounce back instantly, just have to wait.

Ok, thanks for replying

new_don · Mar 27, 2023

lotsofmoney said:
These hacking related services are on rise. I assume there will be good demand for protecting or fixing sites after hacks in future.

Yeah true.

Lwartini · Mar 27, 2023

In

new_don said:
It's a simple general tech niche

oh I already sent another reply to this

tidelow · Mar 28, 2023

new_don said:
Hi Guy, one of my tech website got hit by last week december 2022 google update and my traffic started dropping after 3rd jan 2023 below is the screenshot. It's almost 3 months now still the traffic is not improving even a bit. Also my server got hacked around the first week of january and the hacker added 5-6 pages (ecommerce pages) with 1000s of pages (dynamic pages) which the hacker got all indexed in google search console at the same time.

We have removed all those pages by google temporarily removed request option.

Can anyone tell me what are the things that you can suggest to help regain my lost traffic or do you think it is purely google search alogorithm case.

Any help will be really appreciated.

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Japanese mass spam malware hit one of mine, destroyed my rankings, it's been about 3 weeks now and starting to see some recovery.

new_don · Mar 28, 2023

tidelow said:
Japanese mass spam malware hit one of mine, destroyed my rankings, it's been about 3 weeks now and starting to see some recovery.

What have you done on your site which is helping your site to recover?

lotsofmoney · Mar 28, 2023

new_don said:
What have you done on your site which is helping your site to recover?

Fresh install will be needed. Domain will already have all the link juice. It is lot of work but if the domain has achieved good stats, it should not be thrown away.

new_don · Mar 29, 2023

lotsofmoney said:
Fresh install will be needed. Domain will already have all the link juice. It is lot of work but if the domain has achieved good stats, it should not be thrown away.

Thanks for the suggestion, can you please explain a little bit more about the fresh install.

new_don · Mar 30, 2023

lotsofmoney said:
Fresh install will be needed. Domain will already have all the link juice. It is lot of work but if the domain has achieved good stats, it should not be thrown away.

Are you there?

judealex · Mar 30, 2023

lotsofmoney said:
These hacking related services are on rise. I assume there will be good demand for protecting or fixing sites after hacks in future.

Not in the future, already these kinds of requirements are coming high.

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