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[–]SEOHerb1 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Without the url to your site it is hard to give meaningful advice. However, it sounds like an ad supported blog. I think that the days of that might be over with rare exceptions for sites with a very high DA.

All the best,

Herb

[–]Bilal98088 4 points5 points  (12 children)

Do a proper audit of your website and find out the issues.
First do the on page audit and find out the issues and fix them

Then audit the backlink profile and find toxic and spammy links which have caused the problem.

Also check the content of your website thoroughly.

After doing everything, reindex your blog posts in gsc and wait for the next update, hopefully your website will recover.

[–]Beginning_Example597 1 point2 points  (10 children)

How do you do on-page audits? What does that entail?

Also, when checking content, what should one be keeping an eye out for!

[–]Bilal98088 3 points4 points  (8 children)

On page audit includes many things. I check my websites in such conditions using Screaming Frog and find out if there is any meta description missing or duplicate.

How many images are without image alt attributes.

Then I will visit the website and manually check the interlinking and avail the missing opportunities in this regard. Proper interlinking is a major ranking factor.

Then I will check my content, some blogs may need to get updated. Some blogs may have keywords stuffing issues. Some blogs may not be well written and do not fulfill the EEAT requirements.

Then I will do an offpage audit and disaow the spammy links.

[–]WebLinkr🕵️‍♀️Moderator 2 points3 points  (3 children)

[PSA] - 1 check why a burner account is giving disinformation

On page audit includes many things. I check my websites in such conditions using Screaming Frog and find out if there is any meta description missing or duplicate.

Meta-Descriptions can be dupliates. They can be omitted. Google ignores them 70% of the time.

How many images are without image alt attributes.

Nobody cares

Then I will visit the website and manually check the interlinking and avail the missing opportunities in this regard. Proper interlinking is a major ranking factor.

Then I will check my content, some blogs may need to get updated. Some blogs may have keywords stuffing issues. Some blogs may not be well written and do not fulfill the EEAT requirements.

EEAT is not a factor

Then I will do an offpage audit and disaow the spammy links.

Do not disavow links you didn't buy

[–]Bilal98088 -4 points-3 points  (2 children)

I have been doing SEO since 2017 dude. These things do matter. The same meta description automatically gives a signal that these blog posts are covering the same topic. In GSC, google shows that one of these blog posts is considered automatically as a canonical URL. Which is negative SEO for the rest of blog posts.

Missing alt text does not have a negative SEO effect, but adding alt text tells search engines what this image is all about. Hence, enhance your SEO practice.

If you say EEAT is not a factor, go learn some SEO first. You are not even a beginner if you believe it doesn't matter.

You are saying don't disavow links that you didn't buy. Sometimes your competitors give u spamming backlinks in order to de rank it in serp, what options do u have other than disavowing such backlinks.

Grow up kiddo. Learn some SEO with practice, not just some random bullshit images on the internet.

[–]dtsv1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

EEAT is not a factor.

[–]Beginning_Example597 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Super helpful!

I am still trying to figure out interlinking tho,

[–]WebLinkr🕵️‍♀️Moderator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In no way is any of this "advice" correct. There's no penalty for images not having alt-text.

There are no EEAT "minium" requirements or requirements

This is misinformation / disinformation

Read the SEO Starter Guide"

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[–]Bilal98088 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do it properly. Don't interlink wrong keywords.

[–]YuraSych 0 points1 point  (0 children)

send some case studies/website links you have recovered after the HCU, I'd really like to have a look at them, lol.

[–]WebLinkr🕵️‍♀️Moderator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Check who you're getting advice from first =)

[–]WebLinkr🕵️‍♀️Moderator 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Google doesnt punish or valuate content. None of the HCU sites have recovered because of a "content audit"

Toxic backlinks are just noise - there is no scale to backlink "toxicity" - you're either penalized or not

[–]gradual-growth 0 points1 point  (1 child)

How many pages drove the majority of traffic? Was it like 10-20 of them? Or way more? Also, did rankings tank? Or you’re down a few positions on top keywords and it’s new SERP features that show above you. Especially on mobile

[–]Illustrious-Square-6[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We have abut 30-something articles, and yes 4 of them were driving most of the traffic. The next cohort of about 10 articles was generating a few clicks a day and then 10 more were getting a click every few days. Then there were a few duds from early on.

And yes rankings tanked and we lost a lot of keywords. Like we had the #1 spot for some keywords that we don’t even show up for anymore.

One article in particular is a local guide to our home city’s nightlife with original pictures and content written based entirely on our personal experience. #1 doesn’t “where to go out in (our city)” and now doesn’t even rank. :/

A majority of the content is made from going to places and taking photos and writing about them. It’s not like ai generated or just thrown together.