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Updated Wordpress version and installed SEO plugin, ranking went down

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safiaabbasi last edited by

Last week, we updated our Wordpress version to the most recent version, and installed the SEO plugin. Our rankings immediately went down from #9 to #19. Is this normal? Will our rankings improve once the search engines crawl our site in the next couple weeks? Any feedback is helpful!
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Martijn_Scheijbeler last edited by

Hi Safia,

If you saw an immediate change in rankings then there probably was an issue or something affected your rankings before you upgrade and installed the SEO plugin. Google is in most cases not able to directly crawl your site and recalculate the index for specific keywords.
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