Any Ideas Why My Traffic Halved?

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So a little while ago I made some changes to about 12 of my posts in accordance with the webinar on improving page rankings (https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/tips-on-i...). That was on June 19th, which corresponds to the same time as my traffic dropped by more than half, as seen below from google analytics! :(


I'm just curious if anyone has had similar experiences or could comment on why my traffic has dropped? The posts that I made changes on were not receiving much search engine hits anyway. The changes that I made included editing Meta descriptions, picture file names and alt-tags, and adding H1s, all with my targeted keywords in them.

Here are my results 2 weeks after applying these changes (red = worse ranking, green = better ranking):

I checked my rankings using "Digfer", and these are google search rankings.


As you can see, there are not that many massive changes for the search terms I targeted after 2 weeks and doesn't seem to have worked consistently across the board - some improved, some became worse.

I can't think of any other reason that would halve my website traffic though, as it coincides with the same time I made these changes. Is there a chance that I did too many changes at once and google has seen this as 'keyword stuffing'? Would this really downgrade my whole website as a result, or just the affected posts? They weren't actually bringing in that much organic search engine traffic anyway, so I doubt these rankings caused the sudden drop in traffic.

Thanks in advance for any comments or advice! I'm thinking of reversing the changes that I made now, to see if I can fix my traffic problem, but not sure if I have been 'blacklisted' so to speak by google!


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When doing some pages audit, your ranking will drop first, then it will rank higher afterwards. Depending on your technique to do the editing and the competition too.

I suggest to edit one post/page per day, and social share it once perday as well. After that ask for comment.

Doing that has improved my ranking.. :)

P.S. Do NOT edit your content that have been ranked on the first position. It may drop drastically. But it will up again later.

I don't think it had to with the changes you made because your traffic was declining. I personally make changes to my site all the time. Google does what Google does. Lol I suggest you don't revert back to your original post. We all improve our sites as we are building.

I would suggest looking at your competition and see what they are doing. Maybe they are offering something that you're not. I would also highly, highly recommend getting more comments on your site.
Go to the new comment thread, it's really cool. Finally always add new content to your site.

https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/websites/comments

I hope I was helpful Jolie, :))

Thanks Evelyn, I didn't know about this comment tool! Will definitely be checking it out. Cheers!

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