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Updated my 20 year website. Seeing good results, but it’s happening fast? Normal?
Posted by on February 17, 2026 at 8:20 pmAll this is happening in the span of less than two weeks.
Core Vitals Mobile 0 > 3270
Core Vitals desktop 0 > 2700 needs improvements > 1 week later 3.24k good
Indexing 5k > 27k (5k index total and 30k not index before)
Rich snippets 230 > 2kI read horror stories of people doing massive updates, and it wasn't good. Right now, traffic is up, revenue is up, indexing is up. It was a big update though with a whole redesign, all URL have been changed, so everything is being 301 redirected right now. Mostly all the same content. Big seo change I did was I added canonical links in the html, unique meta descriptions and page titles (thx to AI).
I also improved website speed. by a lot. Got into cloudflare for the edge network. My own server got a 103x improvement with a 3000 concurrent apache benchmark test after major coding rewrites, caching, server optimization. Everything gets cache. Dynamic content stays dynamic. Lighthouse, Observatory scores all up. No new backlinks though, still around 3.2m backlinks. Lost about 20m backlinks over the years.
Am I going to be in a world of hurt soon? This is just a nice bounce before the craziness happens?
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Just start working on authority now primarily through backlinks with your keyworded anchor text in them.
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