WH Site strange disappearance!

farvana

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So one squeaky-clean site I have ranks #3 in US Google desktop and #1 in US mobile., #7 in UK mobile and nowhere in the top 100 in UK desktop. It just dropped out. It's just had a content upgrade. But not the type that should trigger this.
Any thoughts?

 

tylero

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farvana said:

So one squeaky-clean site I have ranks #3 in US Google desktop and #1 in US mobile., #7 in UK mobile and nowhere in the top 100 in UK desktop. It just dropped out. It's just had a content upgrade. But not the type that should trigger this.
Any thoughts?

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It may or may not return. Buy links from UK traditional news websites and see what happens.

 

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JM24

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Happend to me sometimes when adding new strong links or content.
The website came back some days later with new rankings and keywords

 

yalang

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@farvana it may just got hit with the recent google search algorithm update.

 

tazarbm

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either the competition for UK desktop is fierce (so you need more authority), or you're google dancing and will be back soon. That's all I can think of off the top of my head

 

farvana

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It was the development. I deleted the staging domain, which was built in a subfolder and had somehow become crawlable, and cleaned up a few other bits and pieces, and it reappeared in the top 100, jumping 95 places to #5. This underlines the care that needs to be taken when updating the content of sites that are prominent in search engines.

 

NeedMyLink

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It could be a geo-targeting issue. Check your Google Search Console settings to make sure you haven't accidentally set your site to target the US only. Another thing is the recent content upgrade.