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No privacy policy and no terms of service might do it
What a sad state of affairs when even personal blogs are expected to be laden with legal documents.
A website may build good reputation with a search engine which has ranking benefits but at the core of search engine ranking is individual pages: you must protect your well ranking pages at all costs. That means never break any links. If you break links, your pages will drop out of search engines, and it can take years to rebuild the lost reputation for those pages. The model for thinking about SEO should be page-based, not website-based.
The good news is that if your website was able to rank well once, it'll rank well again, because as much as we might tinker with the structure of a website, what matters most is the content, and you're still distributing that same content... you just might have set yourself back a year by breaking a bunch of links. Easy mistake, c'est la vie.
The ideal strategy for experimenting with SEO is to do it page by page, experiment with different changes on different pages and measure the impact. Don't make wholesale changes to the structure of every page until you're confident that you're doing something that works.
With your approach I'm sure you'll get back to normal traffic very soon. I think your conclusion is right. It's not one thing that cause the drop but a combination of things. Let's forget one sec about the traffic you had before and focus on the current situation. - Page speed: It's one of the most important ranking factor. You don't have to get 100 score, but passing the core web vitals score and having higher score…
> A cool trick to improve the result fast is by removing the lazy load effect from the LCP: https://i.imgur.com/rOOWm91.png
Haha, ironically I'm responsible for wholesale lazy loading of images in Docusaurus:
https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus/pull/6598
Generally that's a good thing, but it's not good for title images that appear "above the fold". I wonder if there's something we could do to determine whether an image is "above the fold" and so not apply lazy. Something to ponder.
> Try to make more strategic articles stronger.
Not sure I follow your meaning here, do you literally mean applying bold to certain articles? Or something else?
No privacy policy and no terms of service might do it
That's the first time I'm hearing of suggestions that Google will downrank sites without it. Do you have a source?
Title: > How I ruined my SEO Conclusion: > I'm not quite sure
No privacy policy and no terms of service might do it
That's the first time I'm hearing of suggestions that Google will downrank sites without it. Do you have a source?
With your approach I'm sure you'll get back to normal traffic very soon. I think your conclusion is right. It's not one thing that cause the drop but a combination of things. Let's forget one sec about the traffic you had before and focus on the current situation. - Page speed: It's one of the most important ranking factor. You don't have to get 100 score, but passing the core web vitals score and having higher score…
