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Do You Experience Traffic Drop When Doing Website Maintenance?

by webmonopoly
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I'm in the middle of renovating my website, changing/adding new features and content and pages. Site was getting 80 uniques a day, now its down to 30/day. Noticed a drop in Google serps also. Should I expect a traffic rebound once everything is done and settled?

I'm also back linking at the same time.
#drop #experience #maintenance #traffic #website
  • Profile picture of the author Horny Devil
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    Site maintenance should always be done in increments - not en bloc - unless you're creating a completely new site for the first time. That way you're down time is limited and regular visitors don't think you've disappeared. Also when the search engines crawl your site, if it's down for too long you could end up de-listed.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jarvis Edwards
    Yep, learned my lesson the hard way.One of my "older" sites was "under construction" for a month....as a result, it didn't show up on Google at all for a month after I finished. Traffic dropped significantly too. Recovering now!
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  • Profile picture of the author webmonopoly
    I am doing it in increments, site has not been down at all...
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  • Profile picture of the author vjboc
    Originally Posted by webmonopoly View Post

    I'm in the middle of renovating my website, changing/adding new features and content and pages. Site was getting 80 uniques a day, now its down to 30/day. Noticed a drop in Google serps also. Should I expect a traffic rebound once everything is done and settled?

    I'm also back linking at the same time.
    I made a duplicate of my website and when I want to make changes, I do them to the duplicate site, then I copy and paste changes to the regular site. I added no follow and no index in Robots.txt and also meta tag no index/no follow, so Google hopefully stays away from the duplicate site. It's been working fine for me. Hopefully it wont hurt me in any way with Google. But my site never has down time when I want to make changes.
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  • Profile picture of the author JerrickYeoh
    Make sure you make the thing done only upload and replace the old website design. If not your were loosing your return and repeat traffic and make them won't back to your site again if they found out some page are not found and not working properly.
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