We fired a SEO guy and then...

This is the work he performed:

on-page implementations.
off-page link building.

Thats all we can tell because we are so unfamiliar with SEO.

The word "block" doesn't mean anything in this context.

"Stopped" is also a poorly chosen word. It's possible that the guy had build backlinks on properties that he controls, and simply removed those links as soon as you cancelled your order.

However, this doesn't really match the timeline you presented. Even Google doesn't register the change in backlinks that quickly. Did this guy also run some PPC style advertising? If you stop that the effect would be immediate. If it's only SEO it'd be more likely that the guy did something he shouldn't have as part of his SEO efforts.

I'd suggest that you try to understand what's going on. You need at least your visitor statistics and access to Google Webmaster Tools. Of course you may need some assistance to really get any insight from this data. It's almost impossible to help without having access to any stats of the site.

I'd also suggest a SERP tracker, and a backlink checker. Majestic and Ahrefs are decent and well-known backlink tools. If your SEO sent you reports of your previous results they may help you. If you have no previous reports or records a SERP tracker is not immediately helpful, but a backlink checker might show if the number of links to your site has dropped. Please note that it might take a couple of weeks for a 3rd party tool to register a dropped link.

Hi Janice,

Sounds as if you might be a victim of a somewhat dirty trick that many unethical SEO guys do these days. Real SEO work doesn't go away when you stop performing work, it usually continues to benefit your website for years into the future.

Instead of performing SEO work to benefit your website, he may have been building links to his own website, and then redirecting the traffic to yours. In that scenario you are not paying for SEO work to promote your website. Instead, you are renting traffic from that SEO guy's website and he's using your fees to build up traffic to his own a website.

It's unethical, in my opinion, if he does not disclose the fact he is only renting you the traffic, especially if you hired him to perform SEO for your website. That amounts to fraud, but you don't have a realistic legal remedy because he's based in India, and presumably you are not.

Of course there are other dirty tricks that he might have pulled, like using the disavow tool to disavow the links he built, or requesting that your website be de-indexed via the Google Search Console. In effect sabotaging your website.

The first thing you need to do is check to see if your website is still indexed in Google. Just search in Google using the following search string: site:YourDomain.com
(replace YourDomain.com with your actual website name)

Next, head on over to Google Webmaster Tools and take ownership of your website property so that the guy you fired can do no more harm. You can also gain insight as to what may have happed by looking over the data in the Search Console in Webmaster Tools.

HTH

Yukon you should know this is the norm on this section lol

Traffic stops the same day backlinks are removed??

That's the only scenario in my mind that could turn the traffic off like a tap. Even if he used his own PBN to rank this person's site, it would not have affected rankings in one day. Unless the "one day" is a dramatic exaggeration; would be nice for the OP to come back and clarify.

It could be something less dramatic like the SEO used his own domains as buffers on the backlinks used to rank OPs pages.

OP isn't exactly volunteering any useful info. Saying he did on-page & off-page SEO isn't descriptive.

Paul,

I am guessing, that the OP used the Indian SEO guy to rank his site, so the SEO guy removed the links, PBN etc that got the OP the traffic/sales and now the OP has no traffic and no sales.

OP could go down the PPC route?