Last Google Update : why I needed a break!

Hello WA friends!

It's been a while since I have been on my WA account and, that's because I needed a break. Like many, I was hit so hard by the last Google update. My traffic dropped and though that was difficult, I stayed resilient and told myself that the storm would pass and that I wasn't the only one going through it. I spent a lot of time modifying my posts, fixing site speed, and fixing errors in Google Search. I then tried to write posts according to Google's recommendations.

But then, I hit the bottom and got so discouraged when my last post wasn't being indexed at all. I spent so much time trying to understand why??? After that, I finally stopped trying to get it indexed and moved on to writing another post but it took me months to finally publish it. I thought to myself: why bother if it isn't going to be indexed?

Plus now that you can directly add product links to IG, and Pinterest, I started to re-focus on growing my social accounts. My Pinterest account is growing fast again (almost 800K views!!) and I believe that thanks to that my website traffic is going back up!

I decided I would take care of my website after my holiday. Back from vacation, I was afraid to go on Google search to check if my last post was indexed and to my big surprise, it was!! That meant that fixing the errors worked! I had spent so much time and energy but I knew back then that it wasn't wasted because I was learning a lot along this storm. That positive mindset kept me going.

Bottom line: don't give up, and keep on learning!

Now a new Google update is coming but now I am ready mentally!

Hope this post helps you if you are struggling! :)