Unexplainable drop in traffic

[svsanchez75]

Hello Mozzers, I am new at Moz and certainly hope you can help me!
I used to consider myself very knowledgeable in SEO since I had hundreds or maybe thousands of keywords very well ranked on Google Guatemala (www.google.com.gt) for more than a decade. That was until a year ago: November 8th, 2019... On that date, all of my rankings plummeted, never to return.

At first I thought it was just a hickup from the Google Algorithm, but as days turned into weeks I became very worried, so I started doing a bunch of things:

1. Reworked the pages (except home page) to make them responsive (I used to have two versions of each page, one for desktop and one for mobile).

2. Removed the ads from the pages to make them faster, thinking it could be due to the speed (even if my competitors sites were slower!)

3. Fixed thousands of 404s

4. Disavowed thousands of bad domains and spammy URLs  (I never bought a single link but there were thousands of links from forums, theglobe network, etc)

5. Removed more than 12,000 members from my own forum who had never posted anything: about 4000 of them just had created a profile to include a link to different extenral sites.

6. Fixed a few other technical aspects...

Nothing helped. In fact, my rankings have kept going down. My content is good and unique, my site has good DA but still I get outranked and buried by several sites which don't have as much information as I have.

There are NO manual actions against my site according to Search Console. As I mentioned before, I have never bought any backlinks, so all of my links should be natural (although there were thousands of links to my forum from spammy sites which I disavowed).

So, I am frustrated as I really don't know what the problem is. I am giving you 3 examples of Keywords and URLs of pages that were number one for years, and now are not even on first page, so that you can see them and tell me your thoughts about what may be happening:

1. KEYWORD: VOLCANES DE GUATEMALA
   URL: https://www.deguate.com/geografia/volcanes/Los-volcanes-de-Guatemala.shtml Note: was #1, now is on 5th page. Removed all the ads to see if it would help.

2. KEYWORD: MINISTERIOS DE GUATEMALA URL: https://www.deguate.com/artman/publish/politica_ministerios/Los-ministerios-de-Guatemala.shtml Note: was #1, now is on 2nd page. Removed all the ads to see if it would help.

3. KEYWORD: LEYENDAS DE GUATEMALA URL: https://www.deguate.com/artman/publish/misterios-leyendas/las-leyendas-mas-famosas-en-guatemala.shtml Note: Was #1, now is on 3rd page. It's stuffed with ads, as it doesn't seem to matter wheter my pages have ads or not, and since I lost my rankings on thousands of pages at least I can probably generate a little more income like that.

Thank you so much for the help you can provide!

[hamza5252]

I thought it was just a hickup from the Google Algorithm, but as days turned into weeks I became very worried

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[AzadShah786]

I don't know why its happening but the same issue was happening with my site about action manga. In august 2019 my site was deranked after google algorithm update and after the 10 months when i forgot my url. Its again appearing in the top search results of SERP's. Thats very strange for me

[Hammad3737]

We are facing a similar issue with our website's Organic Traffic. The main reason is now Google is now more focusing on Core Web Vitals. These Core Web Vitals are directly affecting Ranking & Organic visits. Therefore, Kindly also check your Core Web Vital issues in Search Console.

**Follow these path to find Core Web Vital Issues: **Login Google Search Console -> Enhancement -> Core Web Vitals

I have already created one thread for help https://moz.com/community/q/how-can-i-solve-core-web-vital-issues-for-mobile-desktop

Edit: ReadManga.fun

[BartonInteractive]

Hi there,

Have you guys tried the Panguin Tool (no affiliation) to see if your websites have been affected by changes in Google?

https://barracuda.digital/panguin-tool/

Hope this helps.

-Zack

[svsanchez75]

Hello Haris6464, happy to hear your site is appearing again.

Can you tell me what you did? What do you mean by "when I forgot my url it's appearing again"?