Hi James,

Great that you've checked out those items and there aren't errors.

I'd break my response into bullet points so its easier to respond

1- I'm bugged that the traffic loss occurs in the same month as the https redirection. 
That completely tells me that you've either killed, redirected or noindexed some pages that drove a lot of traffic. 
2- Also it could be possible that you didn't deserve that much traffic due to either being ranked on searches that you weren't relevant or Google didn't fully understand your site. That often happens when migration takes places, as Google needs to re-calculate and fully understand the new site.

3- If you have still on the old HTTP search Console property, I'd check as many (and in some scalable way) keywords as possible, trying to find which have fallen out in rankings.
4- When checking those keywords, compare URLs that were ranked, there could be some changes.

5- And lastly, have you made sure that there aren't any indexation and/or Crawlability issues? Check the raw number of indexable URLs and compare it with the number that Search Console shows in the index coverage report.

Best wishes.
GR

Hi James,

I'm sorry to hear that you've lost over 45% of your traffic.
Absolutely not, having a lot of noindex and nofollow pages won't affect your rankings and your SEO strength.

On the other hand, a traffic drop could be related to many issues, some of them:

• Algorithm changes, there has been a lot of movement this year
• You've noindexed some of your high traffic pages
• Some part of the migration gone wrong
• And the list could be endless.

I'd start checking Search Console, there you could spot which keywords and/or URLs are those that aren't ranking that high.

It might come handy, this sort of tutorial on analyzing a traffic drop: How to Diagnose SEO Traffic Drops: 11 Questions to Answer - Moz Blog

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
GR

I don't think that Moz doesn't care about when the content was published.
Keep in mind that Moz and Ahref mostly weight and analyze their backlink profile, thus it's possible that they haven't discovered any backlinks and their metrics can be low.

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
GR

Hi Risto,

Google said it many times that they are pretty good at detecting bad links thus they encourage us to disavow links only when a manual penalty has hit your site or when you dont trust Google's algorithms and/or do know that those links are really hurting you.

That said, my personal opinion, don't bother at all. 
Also, please keep in mind that private metrics as PA, DA, TF, CF or whatever do not reflect what google sees. Those companies with their algorithms try to simulate what Google understands so don't fully rely on them.

Hope this helps.
Best luck.
GR

You're welcome. 
We as a community are here to help.

If your issue is now fixed, you could mark this question as answered

Best luck.
GR

What sometimes happens is that when some URLs are marked as noindex, googlebot reduces its crawling frequency as they interpret that you really don't want that page to be indexed thus has value or so ever.

What you just did is tell GoogleBot to crawl specifically that page and "force" it to analyze and render that page. So GoogleBot now understood that the noindex is no longer set and that page should be indexed.
I'd wait a few days so that googlebot naturally crawls all your site again and eventually index every page that deserves to be indexed.

If that doesnt happen in about 2 weeks, then there is a tool in the old Search Console, where you can tell GoogleBot to Crawl a single page and its links. That is under Crawl-> Fetch as Google. Request an URL to fetched, after a few minutes it a button: _Request indexing_will appear, there you'll have the option to "Crawl this URL and its direct links". This image might came handy: https://imgur.com/a/y5DbUVw

I'm glad it helped previously and hope the last helps you even more.
Best luck.
GR

Sorry to hear that.

Its possible that googlebot still didnt find out that you've changed noindex tag.
Would you mind checking what does the _Inspect URL _tool report? 
To find that, go to the new version of Search Console and enter one of that URL that should be indexed in the textbox. 
Then clic on the "test live URL" button. This image could be helpful: https://imgur.com/a/CPvfwif

There you might get a hint of what is going on.

Hi angela,

Those 5 out of 64 URLs.. Is that a report in Search Console? or only 5 URLs appear when searching in Google?
Search Console usually takes a little longer to update its reports on index status.

Have you tried a site: search? Also using _inurl: _parameter.
For example: site:domain.com inurl:/category-noindexed/

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
GR

Yeap, with that you are allowing every file ending with that extension

Oh god, my mistake!
Im deeply sorry, yes, this configuration will block images! that follow that folder structure!

I'll correct myself.
Thanks for pointing it out!

Hi Tom,

Yes, this config will allow images to be crawled,

No, this config will block images to be crawled,as long as your wordpress has the defalt folder for images: /wp-content/uploads/year/month/image-name.png

How to know, super easy, where your images are stored? Go to the web where you can find an image... Then right clic and then copy link address. With that link you will find that folder structure.

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
GR

Hi there,

Would you mind giving us more information about your issue?

• What crawlers?
• How do you know that H1 is not found?
• Are you having any type of hiding via CSS, JS or any other method? Lazy loading? Different version in mobile and desktop?
• Are you blocking the crawling? (robots.txt and or robots meta tag?)

If you dont mind publish the site that has the problem

Cheers
GR

Hi there,

What you need is a rank tracker. Usually they dont track further 100th position.
I've used serpbook.com, its relatively cheap.
If you want more detailed and want to add extra info, go with SEMrush.com but its more expensive than serpbook.

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
GR

Yes it does.

As I said earlier. Copy and paste that code into the robot.txt tester in any of your search console and try with some name.css or testing.js just for testing.
Check the image i've attached.

Hope it helps.
Best luck
GR

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Hi Tom!

That Robots.txt config is pretty redundant.
To acheive what you what, thy this:

User-agent: * 
Disallow: /wp-admin/ 
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /wp-content/
Allow: *.js
Allow: *.css

Just 3 things to note here:
1- That User-agent:* and those disallows blocks for every bot to crawl whats in those folders.
2- When blocking /wp-content/ you are also blocking the /themes/ folder and inside are the .js and .css files. Blocking those files cause to googlebot not being able to render correctly that page and see it different from what a normal user would see.
3- Those Allow:/ dont prevent the disallow.

To try that configuration, you can use the robots.txt tester in search console, just inder the Crawl menu.

Remember that by default google considers that you are not blocking nothing. 
More info here: The web robots.tat page

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
GR