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  • shinobud

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    March 8, 2026 at 7:40 pm

    Okay so 16k keywords and you lost 2/3 of them. What was your placement for all of those keywords?

    And your solution was to remove half of your pages?

    Makes sense why it’s “performing worse” if that is the kpi you’re tracking. Did your organic traffic get cut by 2/3? Which pages lost organic traffic?

    As others have said, all of these improvements that you said you made have nothing to do with SEO. There’s simply not enough info here to tell you what happened.