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Unusual spike in organic search visitors
So I have very little knowledge about seo and hoped you guys could clear up a question I’ve had for a couple of days.
For context I run a small website for fun (had around 350 views a day) that is basically a single page web application. Last week I got an email with a request for a bugfix, which resulted in 2 lines of changed code and the first update to the site in 3 months.
Since the release of that fix a week ago I get ~150% more traffic than before.
I’m certain that there were no changes to the html files, only one .js file was modified.
So can updates in your javascript code actually result in a better ranking or could there be a different reason for that spike?
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Definitely unlikely that any JS changes would have that big of an impact – I’ve been hearing some rumors of a lot of people in similar positions recently. There was a “big” update to the way google treats back links that could have been part of the reason, hard to say for sure!
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What file did you update? Could it be a tracking script?
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Who sent you that email and what was the bug that needed fixing?
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The change *could* have prompted Google to recrawl your site and then give it a better position based on the parameters of the most recent Broad Core update in January
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This is just a personal anecdote…
But my own properties have had a VERY high degree of turbulence over the past week.
Some properties doubled in rankings, another lost 75% of its traffic… and regained it tonight.
Lots of volatility.
There may be some changes going on in the Google Algo right now and that’s causing your site to be changing.
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was it a tracking Script???
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