Hi all, this is my first time posting on here, so apologies upfront if I do anything incorrectly but I'm just looking for some advice.
We have a website (***Link removed by a Mod***) that has historically done around 100k page views a day. Since around the middle of December, the numbers have dropped dramatically and have continued to drop (it's now doing around 6k page views a day). We don't see any penalties in Search Console and the site speed is optimised - so we're struggling to figure out why the sudden drop in numbers.
The only changes that have been made to the site centre around the Google Site Indexing API. We switched the API details in January (the old account was shut down by the previous developer) and then we had an SEO consultant turn off the API for 3-4 days in February. At both times, the numbers went down. However, we've switched everything back on and the numbers have not improved. The site still seems to be found when we try site:***Link removed by a Mod*** so we haven't been removed from the rankings - but the numbers have just fallen off.
We're wondering whether the issue could be related to the Google Site Indexing API or whether the site is being affected by the suspected Google algorithm changes that have been happening from November onwards. We've got a lot of high quality backlinks (websites like talkSPORT, Daily Mail, The Sun, Mens Health and DAZN are just some of the websites that have linked back to us so these are pretty big sites) as we tend to have access to a lot of boxers - so we get original quotes and content that is published on the site and linked to by others. So we're really unsure where to look because there's no obvious issue that we can see yet the issue has almost killed the site completely.
Any thoughts and advice would be greatly appreciated. If it helps sharing some more insight, then happy to do that.
We have a website (***Link removed by a Mod***) that has historically done around 100k page views a day. Since around the middle of December, the numbers have dropped dramatically and have continued to drop (it's now doing around 6k page views a day). We don't see any penalties in Search Console and the site speed is optimised - so we're struggling to figure out why the sudden drop in numbers.
The only changes that have been made to the site centre around the Google Site Indexing API. We switched the API details in January (the old account was shut down by the previous developer) and then we had an SEO consultant turn off the API for 3-4 days in February. At both times, the numbers went down. However, we've switched everything back on and the numbers have not improved. The site still seems to be found when we try site:***Link removed by a Mod*** so we haven't been removed from the rankings - but the numbers have just fallen off.
We're wondering whether the issue could be related to the Google Site Indexing API or whether the site is being affected by the suspected Google algorithm changes that have been happening from November onwards. We've got a lot of high quality backlinks (websites like talkSPORT, Daily Mail, The Sun, Mens Health and DAZN are just some of the websites that have linked back to us so these are pretty big sites) as we tend to have access to a lot of boxers - so we get original quotes and content that is published on the site and linked to by others. So we're really unsure where to look because there's no obvious issue that we can see yet the issue has almost killed the site completely.
Any thoughts and advice would be greatly appreciated. If it helps sharing some more insight, then happy to do that.
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