I have struggled to get above between 50-70 clicks a day on my website Google console says that I have low page load times which could affect rankings and in turn traffic. In t
I am pretty sure speed is not behind your lack of traffic. Strictly speaking, speed is not a ranking factor and there are studies by Brian Dean showing this. You said also that Support told you all was fine.
Check if your site is still indexed in Bing and in Google, I have had 3 of them in the past disappeared from Bing without any reason. All of them came back weeks later.
Just going through some of the posts on Google page speed and most mobile speeds are below 20 which is poor desktop is not much better at around the '50s.
Although there are many factors for page ranking I would definitely like to get these speeds up so I will do this first and then work through other things.
Might as well get as good as I can
Martin
Hi Martin,
I have been using GTmetrix to check my site's performance in addition to Google's PageSpeed checker mentioned earlier.
GTmetrix is also available as a WordPress plugin, which you could schedule regular checks to take place automatically.
Another bit more technical way of checking what is going on on the site is to use the Google Chrome browser for auditing your site and for monitoring network traffic when loading the pages. You can get to these tools by pressing the F12 key when the Google Chrome browser is active on your screen. It will split the screen in half, and down part of the screen is having interleafs providing various views. Selecting Audit interleaf, you can run the site audit tool, and from the Network interleaf, you will see things like how long any particular item took time to load and whether or not it was loaded from cache or not. In a status column in Network interleaf, you would want to see number 200 in most cases, indicating that element has loaded without issues.
Status code displayed there is an HTML response status code, and below is a general explanation of what they indicate:
Informational responses (100–199)
Successful responses (200–299)
Redirects (300–399)
Client errors (400–499)
and Server errors (500–599)
Occasionally performance and audit reports could indicate the need to compress and to minify stuff on the site. To manage this task, I have utilized a plugin called Hummingbird. Just remember to take full backups from your site before this.
Kind regards,
Aki
might be worth trying asset cleanup plugin - i used it on my site and the speed went up dramatically.
also check what is slowing down your site first https://varvy.com/ is a nice graphical one
do a before and after - but it will mess up your stats in google analytics as they are pageviews....
good luck getting the increased speed
phil
Hiya Martin,
Thank you for asking this, I would also like to know as I don’t understand page speed insights advice on how to fix things. If anyone could explain in plain English I’d appreciate it.
KRs
Caroline😁
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How can I increase page speed to gain my rankings back?
I have struggled to get above between 50-70 clicks a day on my website Google console says that I have low page load times which could affect rankings and in turn traffic. In t
Hey Martin,
Once you have tried all of the suggestions offered to you here, you might consider what Phil has to say: How Long Does It Take To Rank & Make Money!? Should you be POSITIVE that Phil's suggestions are NOT your issue, then I have one more suggestion, but I want you to check with Phil, first.
Only then will I offer the second suggestion as I know all too well how frustrating this can be.
Hope you find this helpful.
Thanks working through stuff but feeling a lot of technical jargon is slowing my progress. It will not beat me though.
I do agree your page speed does not have to do with ranking, but Google knows when your page loads slow, as a matter of fact, it drives visitor away from your site.
First simple step you should take, is to make sure you do not have more than 8-10 plugins, 5-8 would be better.
Images- If you have too much Images or they are too large, it slows your pages down as well, you can actually check that for your self right on WA platform.
I would advise start with the simple steps, then move to the other advance steps if the simple steps don't work or don't solve your problem or make it better.
The next thing is, I don't know how you do your promotion, but there are some simple things you can do to drive more traffic to your site. Content is King, but your content don't always in a position on search engines to call visitors, meaning on first page of those search engines, they all might be indexed now or sometime, but all will not make it on first page.
In the mean time your have to refer others to your site and have them refer others as well, with lots of people going to your site, google would love that and even position your site for more traffic.
There are many FREE site submitters that you can submit your site for FREE, and there is a whole lot of those.
Join forums in your niche, where you can discuss topics related to that niche and leave links.
Those are just some simple things you can do to drive more traffic to your site.
I would agree that traffic count is low, I also would encourage to promote and littler more and make sure you have it in front of the right audience. I do agree you're doing something wrong or ain't doing something you should be doing, if you doing everything else right.
Hope this help in you moving forward.
Earl
Thanks for your comments Earl I do get daily traffic from Quora, Twitter, YouTube and my email list. I think I may have found the issue, fingers crossed.
Martin
I am pretty sure speed is not behind your lack of traffic. Strictly speaking, speed is not a ranking factor and there are studies by Brian Dean showing this. You said also that Support told you all was fine.
Check if your site is still indexed in Bing and in Google, I have had 3 of them in the past disappeared from Bing without any reason. All of them came back weeks later.
Just going through some of the posts on Google page speed and most mobile speeds are below 20 which is poor desktop is not much better at around the '50s.
Although there are many factors for page ranking I would definitely like to get these speeds up so I will do this first and then work through other things.
Might as well get as good as I can
Martin
Hi Martin,
I have been using GTmetrix to check my site's performance in addition to Google's PageSpeed checker mentioned earlier.
GTmetrix is also available as a WordPress plugin, which you could schedule regular checks to take place automatically.
Another bit more technical way of checking what is going on on the site is to use the Google Chrome browser for auditing your site and for monitoring network traffic when loading the pages. You can get to these tools by pressing the F12 key when the Google Chrome browser is active on your screen. It will split the screen in half, and down part of the screen is having interleafs providing various views. Selecting Audit interleaf, you can run the site audit tool, and from the Network interleaf, you will see things like how long any particular item took time to load and whether or not it was loaded from cache or not. In a status column in Network interleaf, you would want to see number 200 in most cases, indicating that element has loaded without issues.
Status code displayed there is an HTML response status code, and below is a general explanation of what they indicate:
Informational responses (100–199)
Successful responses (200–299)
Redirects (300–399)
Client errors (400–499)
and Server errors (500–599)
Occasionally performance and audit reports could indicate the need to compress and to minify stuff on the site. To manage this task, I have utilized a plugin called Hummingbird. Just remember to take full backups from your site before this.
Kind regards,
Aki
might be worth trying asset cleanup plugin - i used it on my site and the speed went up dramatically.
also check what is slowing down your site first https://varvy.com/ is a nice graphical one
do a before and after - but it will mess up your stats in google analytics as they are pageviews....
good luck getting the increased speed
phil
Hiya Martin,
Thank you for asking this, I would also like to know as I don’t understand page speed insights advice on how to fix things. If anyone could explain in plain English I’d appreciate it.
KRs
Caroline😁
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Is anyone else having issues with custom sign up pages for WA. I have been contacted by someone trying to sign up on one of my pages and says he does everything correctly but i
Glad you managed to get it sorted.
Fingers crossed.
Just a gremlin.
Have a wonderful 2020 Martin.
Lily 😁🎶
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Problem with custom optin pages?
Is anyone else having issues with custom sign up pages for WA. I have been contacted by someone trying to sign up on one of my pages and says he does everything correctly but i
Glad you managed to get it sorted.
Fingers crossed.
Just a gremlin.
Have a wonderful 2020 Martin.
Lily 😁🎶
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I have only just noticed that the images sent from site content are not attaching themselves to the article also the alternative text is blank. I am sure this is affecting my S
I haven't had this problem at all. Try all the tricks others are talking about.
Wishing you luck.
The site content works perfectly. Unless they are not your own images.
I advise you first to save images on your computer, and then upload them to site content.
Yes I was saving to computer then uploading to site content. I am now adding images after publishing the text.
I use the same process without worries. However, another WA member said yesterday that he was facing the same problem as yours.
You can send a support ticket if the problem persists.
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Why does the images from site content not attach themselves?
I have only just noticed that the images sent from site content are not attaching themselves to the article also the alternative text is blank. I am sure this is affecting my S
I haven't had this problem at all. Try all the tricks others are talking about.
Wishing you luck.
The site content works perfectly. Unless they are not your own images.
I advise you first to save images on your computer, and then upload them to site content.
Yes I was saving to computer then uploading to site content. I am now adding images after publishing the text.
I use the same process without worries. However, another WA member said yesterday that he was facing the same problem as yours.
You can send a support ticket if the problem persists.
See more comments
I have recently started getting comments (trackbacks) to undesirable sites. Is there anything I can do to prevent this happening? I am just trashing them but seem to be adding
Hi, Go to Dashboard>Setting>Discussion. Under Default Article Settings make sure the box next to: Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks) on new articles
is unchecked.
Hope this helps, best wishes.
I used to get the same thing long time ago. But for the life of me, i forgot what I did to get rid of it. I think it has something to do with the settings. Keep reading, you're bound to get help.
Hey Martin,
Here's a post sharing what you can do to resolve those: WordPress Trackbacks & Pingbacks Hope you find this helpful.
YES! That blog post shows you exactly what to do in Wordpress, changing a setting to get rid of those @#!! things!
Trash all of them, send positive remarks, and watch the bubble bust. May you have a successful week my friend.
Seems to of, nothing since. I was only getting 3 or 4 a week over a period of a couple of weeks. What was interesting was I saw some others on here with the same problem about the same time (maybe a month ago). Coincidence? no idea! but yes seems to have worked
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Trackback comments how can I drop them ?
I have recently started getting comments (trackbacks) to undesirable sites. Is there anything I can do to prevent this happening? I am just trashing them but seem to be adding
Hi, Go to Dashboard>Setting>Discussion. Under Default Article Settings make sure the box next to: Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks) on new articles
is unchecked.
Hope this helps, best wishes.
I used to get the same thing long time ago. But for the life of me, i forgot what I did to get rid of it. I think it has something to do with the settings. Keep reading, you're bound to get help.
Hey Martin,
Here's a post sharing what you can do to resolve those: WordPress Trackbacks & Pingbacks Hope you find this helpful.
YES! That blog post shows you exactly what to do in Wordpress, changing a setting to get rid of those @#!! things!
Trash all of them, send positive remarks, and watch the bubble bust. May you have a successful week my friend.
Seems to of, nothing since. I was only getting 3 or 4 a week over a period of a couple of weeks. What was interesting was I saw some others on here with the same problem about the same time (maybe a month ago). Coincidence? no idea! but yes seems to have worked
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A couple of weeks ago I managed to get a review post on the front page of Google, Bing and Yahoo which in turn gave me loads of traffic and sign ups to WA.
But although
About a month ago I started to see a dramatic drop in my Google rankings across the board. I watched for a couple of days to see if it continued and it did.
That got me wondering what happened because watching won't help. Here's what I did.
1. From Google Search Console I went into Security and Manual Actions, then manual actions. This will tell you if you have been penalized by Google and what you did. Fortunately, I had no penalty.
2. Was I hacked? No, my links work and no other issues.
3. Checked my site speed with Google Site Speed. WOW, way down. On my end, it seemed fine.
4. Checked my plugins and found what was slowing it down.
5. Rankings started to rise the next day.
Now, this may or may not work for you, but it is worth trying. I never wait to see what will happen because my rankings are a huge part of my site.
What I am saying is don't sit and wait to see what happens because if there is a problem and you wait, it will take a long time to get back to where you were and you don't need that.
Make a troubleshooting checklist and go through it. It may just help
Thanks for this I did go and try and index it at again... and it did say about issues which I am investigating. I will look at security and manual...
Thanks
Wish I could help Martin but I did see someone else with a similar problem recently. I'm afraid I can't remember who and not sure what the outcome was, maybe a search might find their post.
I did post an article a few weeks ago and the next day searching incognito it was at the top of page 2. A few days later it dissapeared and has not been seen since! Very frustrating
I hope you find a solution or it resolves itself. Keep us informed
Kevin
Thanks Kevin, sounds like it is a common occurrence be interesting to see what happens to it and whether it reappears
i have heard ranking goes through about three phases - the first algorithm is a basic one - then a tougher one and finally almost a human one.
this all up takes about 34 weeks, when you wil have your 95% final ranking.
the first stage takes a couple of weeks - the second up to 12weeks.
so adding backlinks and getting comments would be a good move at the moment.
you have probably gone from the first to the second stage and other ranking factors have kicked in.
might be worth doin a couple of articles on site and linking to it and maybe an article on medium or somewhere like that.
good luck getting it back
phil
I have experienced this same occurrence with some of my posts but the good thing is that those rankings came back a few days later and could be gone again etc. I think this is expected as more content on same topic is been added to the Internet. I would say keep up with writing a quality content and your ranking is sure to come back.
Tony
In general, rankings can jump up and down at times and nothing much you can do than just continue if you are focusing on quality content.
Secondly, there has been some issues with Google by error deindexing pages recently and this is something they have announced themselves. If that is the case the rankings will come back. You can read more about that here: https://searchengineland.com/googles-de-indexing-issue-still-not-fully-resolved-but-google-is-working-on-it-315070
Finally, is it just in Jaaxy you are checking or can you see it on the actual traffic? Because sometimes Jaaxy can misread and not show your post even though it is ranked - I have experienced this a few times.
Thanks Mikael,
I have also checked in Google console and my traffic has dropped right off ... although it is still showing the page in performance results.
Would resubmitting help ?
Martin
I wish I could help, but that has not happened to me.
sorry, I wish I could help, but go to the live chat, someone is sure to respond.
It is a general problem with Google Search Console since the fourth of this month. Google released an announcement that the issue was resolved since 15 April but it can still takes some days to get back to normal.
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Help my google ranking has disappeared what can I do ?
A couple of weeks ago I managed to get a review post on the front page of Google, Bing and Yahoo which in turn gave me loads of traffic and sign ups to WA.
But although
About a month ago I started to see a dramatic drop in my Google rankings across the board. I watched for a couple of days to see if it continued and it did.
That got me wondering what happened because watching won't help. Here's what I did.
1. From Google Search Console I went into Security and Manual Actions, then manual actions. This will tell you if you have been penalized by Google and what you did. Fortunately, I had no penalty.
2. Was I hacked? No, my links work and no other issues.
3. Checked my site speed with Google Site Speed. WOW, way down. On my end, it seemed fine.
4. Checked my plugins and found what was slowing it down.
5. Rankings started to rise the next day.
Now, this may or may not work for you, but it is worth trying. I never wait to see what will happen because my rankings are a huge part of my site.
What I am saying is don't sit and wait to see what happens because if there is a problem and you wait, it will take a long time to get back to where you were and you don't need that.
Make a troubleshooting checklist and go through it. It may just help
Thanks for this I did go and try and index it at again... and it did say about issues which I am investigating. I will look at security and manual...
Thanks
Wish I could help Martin but I did see someone else with a similar problem recently. I'm afraid I can't remember who and not sure what the outcome was, maybe a search might find their post.
I did post an article a few weeks ago and the next day searching incognito it was at the top of page 2. A few days later it dissapeared and has not been seen since! Very frustrating
I hope you find a solution or it resolves itself. Keep us informed
Kevin
Thanks Kevin, sounds like it is a common occurrence be interesting to see what happens to it and whether it reappears
i have heard ranking goes through about three phases - the first algorithm is a basic one - then a tougher one and finally almost a human one.
this all up takes about 34 weeks, when you wil have your 95% final ranking.
the first stage takes a couple of weeks - the second up to 12weeks.
so adding backlinks and getting comments would be a good move at the moment.
you have probably gone from the first to the second stage and other ranking factors have kicked in.
might be worth doin a couple of articles on site and linking to it and maybe an article on medium or somewhere like that.
good luck getting it back
phil
I have experienced this same occurrence with some of my posts but the good thing is that those rankings came back a few days later and could be gone again etc. I think this is expected as more content on same topic is been added to the Internet. I would say keep up with writing a quality content and your ranking is sure to come back.
Tony
In general, rankings can jump up and down at times and nothing much you can do than just continue if you are focusing on quality content.
Secondly, there has been some issues with Google by error deindexing pages recently and this is something they have announced themselves. If that is the case the rankings will come back. You can read more about that here: https://searchengineland.com/googles-de-indexing-issue-still-not-fully-resolved-but-google-is-working-on-it-315070
Finally, is it just in Jaaxy you are checking or can you see it on the actual traffic? Because sometimes Jaaxy can misread and not show your post even though it is ranked - I have experienced this a few times.
Thanks Mikael,
I have also checked in Google console and my traffic has dropped right off ... although it is still showing the page in performance results.
Would resubmitting help ?
Martin
I wish I could help, but that has not happened to me.
sorry, I wish I could help, but go to the live chat, someone is sure to respond.
It is a general problem with Google Search Console since the fourth of this month. Google released an announcement that the issue was resolved since 15 April but it can still takes some days to get back to normal.
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Hey Martin,
Once you have tried all of the suggestions offered to you here, you might consider what Phil has to say: How Long Does It Take To Rank & Make Money!? Should you be POSITIVE that Phil's suggestions are NOT your issue, then I have one more suggestion, but I want you to check with Phil, first.
Only then will I offer the second suggestion as I know all too well how frustrating this can be.
Hope you find this helpful.
Thanks working through stuff but feeling a lot of technical jargon is slowing my progress. It will not beat me though.
I do agree your page speed does not have to do with ranking, but Google knows when your page loads slow, as a matter of fact, it drives visitor away from your site.
First simple step you should take, is to make sure you do not have more than 8-10 plugins, 5-8 would be better.
Images- If you have too much Images or they are too large, it slows your pages down as well, you can actually check that for your self right on WA platform.
I would advise start with the simple steps, then move to the other advance steps if the simple steps don't work or don't solve your problem or make it better.
The next thing is, I don't know how you do your promotion, but there are some simple things you can do to drive more traffic to your site. Content is King, but your content don't always in a position on search engines to call visitors, meaning on first page of those search engines, they all might be indexed now or sometime, but all will not make it on first page.
In the mean time your have to refer others to your site and have them refer others as well, with lots of people going to your site, google would love that and even position your site for more traffic.
There are many FREE site submitters that you can submit your site for FREE, and there is a whole lot of those.
Join forums in your niche, where you can discuss topics related to that niche and leave links.
Those are just some simple things you can do to drive more traffic to your site.
I would agree that traffic count is low, I also would encourage to promote and littler more and make sure you have it in front of the right audience. I do agree you're doing something wrong or ain't doing something you should be doing, if you doing everything else right.
Hope this help in you moving forward.
Earl
Thanks for your comments Earl I do get daily traffic from Quora, Twitter, YouTube and my email list. I think I may have found the issue, fingers crossed.
Martin
I really hope you do, I can understand how you feel.