• White Hat SEO

  Article dropped 6 positions overnight

  Posted by seohelper on June 7, 2021 at 1:59 pm

  I own a relatively authoritative website in health niche. Our articles are medically reviewed to comply with YMYL and EAT guidelines.

  I published an article on a keyword that got ranked in the first page of Google after 2 days. However, it got pushed down 6 positions making me lose all the traffic I got.

  Is there any reason behind it?

  AndreaLambert replied 2 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 9 Replies
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  Glowingpenisbrain

  Guest

  June 7, 2021 at 2:03 pm

  Algo update is rolling out right now. There will be fluctuations in the SERPs for about 1 more week. I’d hold off on any analysis until the update is fully rolled out.
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  bbax51

  Guest

  June 7, 2021 at 2:15 pm

  Give it at least 2 weeks to find its place.

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  brandufo

  Guest

  June 7, 2021 at 2:15 pm

  If you check on Neil patel free tool

  Tpye keyword…………. Keywords require how much domain authority and backlinks. If someone have all these things greater thn you, he can easily rank. Also one more thing I want to add. What is bounce rate for this page, if it’s high Google may think low and lower it’s position. Hope this may clear your answer. Or maybe some other reasons are possible too

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  Bootyak

  Guest

  June 7, 2021 at 2:24 pm

  Stop chasing rankings for individual keywords. There’s always flux and either way it’s pointless because you can’t control the SERPs for individual keyword rankings.

  Instead, focus on overall, organic traffic growth to a page. Because if traffic is rising for a particular page, it means that the corresponding keywords that it’s ranking for are also rising higher/gaining more visibility, etc.

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  itisoktodance

  Guest

  June 7, 2021 at 4:02 pm

  Did you just publish the article? Wait for it to stabilize. Is it an old article? Update it with your new knowledge on what keywords it’s picking up.

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  KatherineKing

  Member

  June 8, 2021 at 1:43 pm

  Yes, you have to wait for stabilization is right, until then it’s pointless to check anything!!!

  • This reply was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by  KatherineKing.
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  AndreaLambert

  Member

  June 8, 2021 at 2:44 pm

  Don’t pay attention to a specific request. I had the same thing. It jumped to the 1st place according to the requests of https://www.google.com/, then to 10+, after only a month it was finally fixed at 6 and since then it has not yet moved. Just wait a bit.

  • This reply was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by  AndreaLambert.

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