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  • This update is kicking my butt!

    Posted by seohelper on May 7, 2020 at 5:19 pm

    So yeah, The May Core Update is kicking my ass on one of my biggest earners.

    I’m sure it will bounce back eventually but I do have a question:

    The day before the update, I also deleted about 100 posts (old content which was not getting any traffic).

    Do you think the reason for this insane dip (I’m talking 60-70% here) is due to that (as well as the update)?

    WebLinkr replied 3 years, 10 months ago 1 Member · 6 Replies
  • 6 Replies
  • ARandomVisitor

    Guest
    May 7, 2020 at 5:26 pm

    Yes, for sure it impacted your traffic. Just think of all the internal links you lost to your top/primary pages. If I was you, I would put them back ASAP and start optimizing them slowly over time.

  • laserpoint

    Guest
    May 7, 2020 at 6:39 pm

    Same 60% drop

  • blulemming

    Guest
    May 7, 2020 at 8:52 pm

    My site had a 45% drop. But up until now (it’s 1 year old, with 1,500 visitors per day, before the latest update) it has always benefited from the G updates.

    It’s a clean site, a fast site, and the whitest of the white in terms of SEO. The content is also good. I’m not sure what’s suddenly so wrong with it in Google’s eyes.

  • chariozip

    Guest
    May 7, 2020 at 10:13 pm

    Old posts without traffic are by no means responsible for 60-70% drop.

    It’s just the fact that Google likes someone else better now.

    Not much you can do about it except keep creating good stuff that people love to read about.

  • shawnisFILTHY

    Guest
    May 8, 2020 at 12:28 am

    Everything I have seen is that this is a huge update, so wait a week or so before anything too drastic. If your old posts were duds and had no valuable links, that shouldn’t really harm you. If you have access to tools like Ahrefs and Screaming Frog I would say 1) check out if there were backlinks for the deleted posts and 2) crawl your site, both live pages and the deactivated ones and see what’s up. You’re more likely to be punished for technical issues I bet.

  • WebLinkr

    Guest
    May 8, 2020 at 2:08 pm

    If it’s a core update, it shouldn’t “bounce back” – the whole idea of an update is to improve search quality. Are you 100% sure you’ve kept within Google’s TOS?