Question

I'm very disappointed, My website was affected by May 2020 Core Algorithm Update, the organic traffic was down from 26k to 2k / day. Is there anything should I do or just wait? or.?  

Answer 1

Not sure bout the others but I don't touch it for a week or two before taking actions.  

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But that's a big drop you know, you might want to pull out your checklist already to give you an idea where it might gone wrong.  

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Ok, so waiting. Thanks.  

Answer 2

Wait for another week

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@vouch657 how's your traffic been so far?  

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@teliospore lost about 100 visitors a day. Let wait and see

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@vouch657 lost 40%. I'm patient. I'll wait the update out.  

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Bro all most everyone I know have lost traffic in the last two days. Including me. Just wait man

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Ok, thanks.  

Answer 3

What's the niche?  

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@battleax869 I’m in Tech as well. Lost 60%

Answer 4

That’s a huge loss. I agree with the posters above. Give it at least a week to recover. If it dropped that much in 1 day, it can heavily fluctuate over the course of a week also.  

Answer 5

Move on. Copy all the data, move to a new domain.  

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@hedge8287  

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@hedge8287 this is actually best Solution and so this is why i tell others not to worry much, what is your experience like, have you done it already and how was the success overall? Canonical or permanent 301?  

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Permanent 301. Best with expired domain.  

Answer 6

Huge drop. Were you involved in any kind of link building? Also, without more data about the site and the niche, it will be hard for anyone to give you some good advice.  

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Niche: Tech.  

Answer 7

Literally did nothing. Wait it out.  

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Santosh, oh yeah. But my other site lost 40% traffic. Lol!  

Answer 8

Huge drop. I think you should to wait .  

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@goss2 If someone waits will it increase?  

Answer 9

Don't wait to buy gold, buy gold and wait.  

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So, You think that I need to buy links when the update is rolling?  

Answer 10

100% wait, at least a week. If it's not recovering after a week, there should be enough data SEO community wide to give clues about recovery.  

Answer 11

Wait for another week

Answer 12

Same here. traffic down about 40%

Answer 13

Thanks for you all, About the content, Should I write more?  

Answer 14

If content is good and revelant this will back with in weeks, some read shows this so waiting will be good for us

Answer 15

Wait for two weeks. Small update will happy every time when major updates done. They will do some adjustment. Also please check your four month SEO and content related work. What is your niche? Thanks

Answer 16

Is there any Google-update-proof SEO method?  

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@slapdash yes, ppc

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Yes. No. Maybe so. Lol. Love it. PPC makes sense. I wonder how CTR for google ads has changed over the past decade.  

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"just make great content"

Answer 17

Just wondering, how many of you guys that lost huge organic traffic are using Yoast Seo?  

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@magneto5652 I'm using yoast, i lost around 60% of my traffic, but what does yoast has to do with it?  

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There are many complaints lately about it. I have been using it on one website and lost quite some traffic while I didn't on others that had another Seo plugin. Not sure if this is the problem though. Check the review comments:  
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordp...views

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I've yoast on 3 domains, 1 effected and other 2 not effected so it has nothing to do with yoast

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@lissettelissi826 Noor Same version on all?  

Answer 18

Did you notice how Pinterest gained a huge boost? On my niche they got over 4 spots with multiple domains (. com, . de, , cl, . it, . br, . es) BTW, my niche is about prayers in Brazil, so this doesn't make any sense. Google literally wiped all sites but Pintrest and Youtube.  

Answer 19

Is it by Google update or Coronavirus

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Google Core Update.  

Answer 20

I’m hearing from a number of folks I know who saw a big drop, but who have not done any linkbuilding. Wondering if changes are related to on page factors, or either something niche related, like YMYL.  

Answer 21

I lost around 300 ranking on the 10th of last month, got it back a few days ago. Wait it out.  

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@arnone 100% recovery? Or partial

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@bandeen in the end full and a little more spots gained

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@arnone nice. So it took a little over a month to bounce back

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@bandeen I'll send you a pic of the drop then the pickup

Answer 22

My site was hit with Google algorithm and my traffic dropped please is there any solution to this?