Keywords Suddenly Dropped in Rank on Google?

I doubt that changing the page name or even title tag in addition to adding policy information had an effect on the ranking.

More likely, a recent algorithm core update caused the ranking shift and reverting back to the way it was won't have an effect. Of course, it's always worth a shot - controlling the one thing you did that MIGHT have caused it. You should probably know within 30 days if it helped.

If reverting back doesn't work, Google says there is little you can do when these core updates are released other than making your pages better (a clue for how to do that is looking at the pages that are now outranking yours).

Google just had a large algo update.


It's not likley that what you did caused the drop.


Watch to see if you bounce around for a while and then see where you settle.

algorithm update probably hurt your ranking so far, so identify your backlinks

Anyone not follow the google algorithm, so when google update their 200 more than algorithm. your keyword rank decrease on google.

Adding extra thing on your page is the problem because it might be against Google algorithm try to fix that and request for reindexing in webmaster.

Whenever Google comes up with a new Algorithm, tons of websites ranking got affected, same happened with yours. Can't do anything for this.

Leave it alone and wait. I saw a lot of fluctuation since the core update and the majority of my clients bounced right back up! If not start looking at site structure and everything from a broad spectrum all the way down to content and page speed.

So basically, you changed the title on a single page of your site, and the rankings for your whole site went out of whack?

It is possible that the change you made caused the decline.

But, very unlikely.

Especially such a small change. On a single page.

Well, unless you haven't made any changes on your site for over a decade. It may have caused some reshuffling. But unlikely.

What niche is your website in?

More likely, the change was caused by...

... the recent algorithm update which Google implemented over the last week.

Tons of sites were hit.

Huge and popular sites.

Like the Daily Mail.

With losses in search engine traffic ranging from 50 to 90% almost overnight.

Sites hit were especially in the natural health space, financial (such as cryptocurrency), and some gambling sites.

The changes were (seemingly) more politically driven than anything else.

So if you were in, or near, any of those niches, you have a higher probably of getting hit.

Other possibilities?

- You might have been hit by a negative SEO campaign.
- Your competitors might have overtaken you.
- And more.

But looking at the recent SERP reshuffling...

... getting hit by the algorithm change is most likely.

Have a look at the pages that are currently ranking for the keywords that you dropped.

See what they have in common.

And then take a look at your site.

It may give you a better clue. As to what Google's now looking for for those keywords.

It has been said that branding, expertise and authority are critical factors specific niches at the moment.

Especially those I mentioned earlier...

It is also possible that your site may jump back up after a while.

The update reshuffling was pretty huge. And may not have completely settled yet.

You may see changes in results without doing anything in a week or two.

But that is hard to say...

It may be best to look for other traffic sources for the time being.

Umm, that might happen to be just the consequences after a very recent Google update only a few days ago.

Check this out for all the updates https://searchengineland.com/library...orithm-updates

And here is the most recent one which happened just a few days back.
https://searchengineland.com/google-...-update-317741

Andy

Keywords Suddenly Dropped in Rank on Google It could happen due to low-quality content, onsite technical issues, algorithm updates most likely cause for major websites, a Google penalty

You need to be calm. Then you can better analyze the situation.

my website ranking is also dropped, the keywords usually I am finding in top 20, now they all are listing very down somewhere in 100. My content is unique, I have done on-page, some off page seo also, what else I need to do to rank them in top 10.

Kindly suggest.

Majorly the "Title" is the culprit.
Or
You need to examine where you should not placed the "text" to make any negative effect on your ranking.

Note: If you just changed your title then better you need to wait for 2-3 weeks to see the effects on a full phase.

No doubt, it was the algorithm update.

My question is, "are you using PBN's"?

If so, I would rethink that strategy for local...

For what it's worth, and I will probably get hammered for saying this, I purchased a product called "Site-Pop" John Limbocker for exactly this reason. It doesn't solve the problem, but it boosts a site from page 2-3-4 back up in the ranks with actual searches. I bought the extra package in case I needed it for later, if you want to give it a try to see if it helps let me know. You can just try it to see if it helps, and if it does and you want to keep using it I can let you keep it for really cheap as it is pretty much excess unused stock I am not using at this point.

If I am not mistaken, right about this time, Google rolled out the June Google core algorithm update. Things seem to be back to normal now. The update, according to Google, was the regular core update that they usually do.

It is a common issue in everyone, due to low-quality content, algorithm update, onsite technical issues or Google penalty it will happen so you have to check.

Nowadays goolge update lots of algo, It can be reason.

help full advice ..thanks

With so many algorithm changes, it is almost impossible to keep track of google and its changes on a day to day basis.

you should wait now Atleast couple of week and see activity of your website . There are several reason dropped keyword but now you need be cool . the error you'll find but with a cool mind .

if you change structure it will be recovered within 1 month

Maybe googlel core update affects on your website but again i'll see sit and see now

Check for the latest update in 2019 you will get the solution why your site drop

Google released a June 2019 Broad Core update, maybe your ranking dropped due to that.

Check out about the update at Google twitter handle.

Yes, the changing of the wording may not have been the cause of the drop in the ranking. I think changes in algorithms are responsible for the drop. So just get in touch with an SEO guru and you will be back in the driving seat.

Search Engines are evolving very fast and there is a sea changes in the factors that they used to rank web pages if we see even a few years time span. There is now new methodology used to crawl, index and rank search terms against pages.

Following are the reasons that traditional SEO might not be working for you

Backlinks: in a series of updates, popularly called the penguin updates Google has made sure that spammy links are penalized and ant delta ( speed of acquiring ) of links have to be verified. Sources from where you are linking is important, anchors used for backlinks are crucial and most importantly topical relevance of the sites from which you are getting inbound link is important.

Content: There was a time when simple keyword stuffing on a page was enough o get you ranked. Now Google has even develop topical modelling capacity for evaluating topical strength of a page and hence shallow content do not stand chance to rank now and every Panda update penalizes pages with shallow content

SEO is moving towards natural link building, optimizing for following best search engine guideline in terms of usability and user experience.

I also facing the same situation. Looking for suggestions here.

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if the keywords have been stuffed in to the website and the main website ranking is due to the site in which gray hat seo is done then when a google updates come its algorithm gets changed and this change in algorithm can hurt the tactics of the page range you have done and which might result in the fall in the ranking of the keyword
yoursite have to be updated with the google new updates and rules and regulation

Search Engines are evolving very fast and there is a sea change in the factors that they used to rank web pages if we see even a few years time span.

Check index status - whether your website is indexing in search engines, search with the brand name.
Robots Tag - View source of the home page and check for robots meta tag, if it is having noindex, nofollow, then this could be one reason for drop of keyword ranking
Robots.txt file - Check if you are blocking your website in robots.txt file.
Google search console - Check out your GSC to see if there is any manual action spam or messages.

If you are changing your meta titles and descriptions, it's sure that it will affect all your ranking in search engine. Since you restored your site. It not sure that it will place at the same place, where they are first.

server configuration, headers changed? implemented another compression method?

Adding extra thing on your page is the problem because it might be against Google
algorithm update probably hurt your ranking so far, so identify your backlinks.

It is not that uncommon for a page or keyword to drop on Google. The search engine giant runs on different algorithms; therefore, the new updates may have affected your page.

Further, as you said, that you restored your page, is it possible that you have modified, or somewhat changed the content on your page? If yes, then you should know that SEO plays a significant role in such cases, and the modification on your page may have caused the issue. However, the different keywords may bring less traffic to your page; hence, you should look up for the trending keywords and SEO techniques, compatible with your page.

when google update the their algorithm, many website search engine rank effected and dropping the keywords.

In your situation, you have changed the your website content it is not good if your on page seo well and keyword also in ranked google first page. You should not changed the content your website although you can add or update your website content.

Because of changes in titles rankings get affected , so don't change the meta title continously it affect the rankings try to add that new keywords in description or starting it self you can add the latent semantic keywords in title tag related to ( root keywords ) if you do like this less chances of often changes in meta title

Either an algorithm update or construction of more websites in the same niche may have caused the problem. Give it time to see how it will behave.