Page I have not touched in two years dropped 60 percent of traffic in nine days Traffic Drop
A guide that has ranked in the top three for its main term since 2023 fell to positions 8-12 over about nine days in June and traffic went from roughly 1,400 to 550 sessions a week. No changes to the page, no changes to the template, no manual action, and the rest of the site is flat. Positions for the same term on our two other pages didn't move. Where do you start when nothing on your end changed?
@internal_linker · 2mo ago · 3 replies
Start by confirming it's a ranking loss and not a demand loss, because they look identical in a sessions chart. Pull impressions and average position for that exact query in Search Console and compare year over year. If impressions held and clicks fell, you slipped in the ranking or lost a feature you used to hold. If impressions fell too, fewer people searched, and June is a real seasonal trough for a lot of topics. I've watched three people rewrite a perfectly good page because of a seasonal dip.
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@internal_linker · 2mo ago
Then go look at who's above you now and what the result layout looks like. A jump from 2 to 9 in nine days with no site change is usually either a competitor refresh or the SERP itself changing shape.
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@starschema_sy · 2mo ago
Impressions are flat, average position went 2.4 to 9.1. So it is a genuine slip.
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