Hi Vladim! I'm not sure I know what you mean- I attached a graph that might help visualize how the rankings have changed over time 
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RE: Organic Traffic: Hockey-stick growth followed by slow rampdown of death!posted in Algorithm Updates
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RE: Organic Traffic: Hockey-stick growth followed by slow rampdown of death!posted in Algorithm Updates
Thanks Mike, sorry the post may be a bit unclear. I meant "Hockey Stick" as a metaphor.
The website actually targets keywords such as "website builders", "website builder reviews"
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Organic Traffic: Hockey-stick growth followed by slow rampdown of death!posted in Algorithm Updates
My site, Site Builder Report, was started last year.
Months 1 - 6 saw modest organic traffic growth.
Months 6 - 9 saw explosive organic traffic growth.
Months 9 - 12 have seen a steady decrease in organic traffic.(I've attached a graph for visualizing this)
The site has not changed much over this time. In fact, in the last 3 months, I've done two things to try to get organic traffic trending upwards again:
- Increased the amount of long-form articles on the site (from 1 new article every 3 weeks to 1 new article every week)
- Fixed approxately 150 five hunded (500) errors in Google Webmaster Tools three weeks ago (converted them to 404s)
Neither fix has really been able to change the trend (although perhaps it's too early to tell with the fixing of errors).
Does this downtrend warrant concern? It's having significant business effects- would hiring an SEO consultant be the next step for reversing this trend? Any thoughts?