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Help! Niche Site Traffic DROP...

by vtotheyouknow
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Hi All,

The traffic on my best-earning niche site has dropped from around 100 uniques a day to almost 0!

I did a check on Ahrefs and didn't find any evidence of negative SEO against me.

Almost all of my links come from a high quality private blog network.

I checked on Google and the pages on my site are still in the index, but the rankings have all disappeared.

The only explanation I can come up with is that maybe Google has deindexed some of the links in the PBN or has silently rolled out an algo update.

Any ideas?
#drop #niche #site #traffic
  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    Originally Posted by vtotheyouknow View Post

    The only explanation I can come up with is that maybe Google has deindexed some of the links in the PBN or has silently rolled out an algo update.
    Did you check? That would have been the first thing I would do.

    If it doesn't look like they are deindexed, then I would check the rankings of other sites using the same public blog network. If none of them are ranking too, the network was penalized without being deindexed.
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  • Profile picture of the author HuiBang
    Agree with Anthony, it sounds like Google penalize your website.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    I have no idea If you own the PBN, doesn't look like it (OP).

    Run those same Ahref links you checked on SEOspyglass & see If the links still exist. Ahref data could be outdated.
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      I have no idea If you own the PBN, doesn't look like it (OP).

      Run those same Ahref links you checked on SEOspyglass & see If the links still exist. Ahref data could be outdated.
      One problem with that, if it is a popular public blog network, SEO SpyGlass is going to tell you the links are all gone. In truth, they still exist, but they have rolled off the page where Ahrefs first crawled them.

      You probably would have to have something like Xenu or Screaming Frog crawl the sites, then import all the URLs into Scrapebox and search for the live links.
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      • Profile picture of the author yukon
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        Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

        One problem with that, if it is a popular public blog network, SEO SpyGlass is going to tell you the links are all gone. In truth, they still exist, but they have rolled off the page where Ahrefs first crawled them.

        You probably would have to have something like Xenu or Screaming Frog crawl the sites, then import all the URLs into Scrapebox and search for the live links.
        The links might exist on another page of the same backlink domain but they might have rolled off the page that actually matters, the page that was used to rank OPs page. I would still count a link not found on spyglass in that case.
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        • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
          Originally Posted by yukon View Post

          The links might exist on another page of the same backlink domain but they might have rolled off the page that actually matters, the page that was used to rank OPs page. I would still count a link not found on spyglass in that case.
          If the links rolling off the home page was what caused this, you would likely see a more gradual decrease in rankings. Not an overnight drop into oblivion. The links would not all roll off on the same day. Google also would not recrawl them all on the same day.
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          • Profile picture of the author yukon
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            Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

            If the links rolling off the home page was what caused this, you would likely see a more gradual decrease in rankings. Not an overnight drop into oblivion. The links would not all roll off on the same day. Google also would not recrawl them all on the same day.
            Maybe but 100 unique traffic (OP) is what, a single ranked page on a longtail?
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            • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
              Originally Posted by yukon View Post

              Maybe but 100 unique traffic (OP) is what, a single ranked page on a longtail?
              There is no way to know that really. There is not enough information.

              I have plenty of sites targeting keywords that only get 100 searches in a month. It would take quite a few keywords and pages dropping to see that kind of drop for those sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author PBN301
    Are all the pages still indexed, meaning did u check ALL of them?

    where were the PBN links pointed, main page inner page?

    Where was the traffic coming in, the page you had the links pointed at?

    was the drop really overnite?

    and yeah was most of your traffic coming from 1 kw that might have slipped?
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  • Profile picture of the author Robinsh123
    We need in detail explanation about the activities you were doing to create backlinks for your blog and then only we can say that what was the wrong move that left your blog from 100 to 0 in traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author SEOWizard417
    Like others have said, go back and check the PBN to see if it is still indexed and check other sites and their rankings that are using the PBN.
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  • Profile picture of the author sreejanniyogi
    If the site has stopped getting traffic it means drop in SERPS. if it has completely vanished from the SERPs then your site might have been penalized.
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  • Profile picture of the author LuckyIMer
    Looks like your website has been penalized, you need to find out what you are doing wrong, check the webmaster guidelines and make sure your website meets all of their criteria.
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