One Case Where It's Not About Writing More Posts But This.

bymgranados2

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Updated 4 years ago

Hey Everyone, Happy Monday.

You hear it all the time...

Write more posts, Just write more!

But is writing more blog posts the ONLY solution?

Sure, at the beginning it's vital but how about as your site has over 100's of posts, your site ages and you're getting consistent traffic?

More or less - depends on your niche and your goals but there could be another problem you're having that you are most likely overlooking!

Aside from sharing your content and writing more quality posts which you should do, I want to focus Your attention on Google Search Console instead.

About a few weeks back I started to see my traffic on a couple of my sites drop by a lot, especially with one specific post that was bringing me consistent traffic every day, quality leads (not just casual optins/visitors), and sales but now I literally get zero traffic to this huge post...

So I had to investigate and do a thorough research analysis. Was it the latest Google update? Could be. However, after a few hypotheses, I came to a conclusion there is an indexing issue where my post URL wouldn't show in Google anymore...

And there were no penalties, not duplicated content, no 404, 401 redirects and so forth, rather, it just wasn't indexed properly. Could it have been an AMP issue? Some time ago I enabled AMP through my Thrive Theme Builder and I noticed issues, I have it off now, but was this the leading issue?

I'm seriously considering this to be the problem, so I've validated my fixes and then I'll resubmit my sitemap if necessary.

In My Google Search Console there is a "Coverage" tab and I looked through my Non-Indexed posts/pages, and everything that could be going wrong, and there were many things to look at, and that was the start.

So what Did I do?

I've re-indexed the post, re-submitted the sitemap, and now I've got ahold of the Google Search Console community to see how this can be resolved. I'm in the process of resolving this issue...

And hopefully, things can jump back to the way they were before, because man, those times were great.

In all, go through your Google Analytics or whichever analytic tool you're using, find the posts you may have lost traffic to and or which ones have become completely irrelevant (lost all traffic), and ask yourself why?

Then go to your Google Search Console and under your coverage tab see the non-indexed posts/pages, as well more under there and do a thorough research to find your problem.

Honestly, I don't think I would be here writing this post today if it wasn't for all the customer support, and search for answers I've been doing.

Have you experienced similar issues? If so, what did you do about it that worked?

Thank you for your time and for listening,

Michael Granados