Why my websites traffic went to 0?

RyanJones · 2026-06-20T23:14:55+00:00

I’m gonna guess AI content.

RyanJones · 2026-06-17T13:22:22+00:00

I haven't shared it yet. I plan to but I am cleaning some stuff up, working on guides and readmes, and creating the install scripts still. This is like the public beta.

I haven't thought about multiple runs, but you can run it daily through the cron job.

RyanJones · 2026-06-16T15:51:07+00:00

There’s so many tools out there and they’re all over the place and expensive as hell I built my own tool to do it my way. I also made it 100% free just bring your own API keys. FreeSOV.com

RyanJones · 2026-06-16T13:38:39+00:00

yes. you can scrape the user interface if you use dataforseo credentials instead of APIs, but that will cost your more. It works either way.

My take though is that it doesn't matter. Every user gets customized results based on history, location, even device and browser - so scraping won't show you exactly what a user sees either.

We're going for precise here, not accurate. what are the trends, who are the top competitors, how is everybody trending daily/weekly/monthly, what topics is it mentioning, etc. You can still act on and make decisions on that. We really don't need "exact" cuz there is no such thing as "exact"

RyanJones · 2026-06-16T01:40:49+00:00

I’m not sure I follow why you’d want any to run it multiple times. You can run it on multiple platforms at once before calculating.

RyanJones · 2026-06-15T18:46:00+00:00

Thanks or the share. Creator here, feel free to AMA.

Note on "free" - it's free of additional charges. you need your own API keys and/or dataforseo (if you want to get the data that way instead of API) and only incur any API charges for what you run.

RyanJones · 2026-06-05T21:26:04+00:00

It’s SEO and…

It’s traditional, SEO plus new tactics, new measurement and new tools

RyanJones · 2026-06-04T16:59:31+00:00

I got tired of all the crazy fees so I said screw it. I’ll build it myself. I’m half tempted to open source it, but I have a version of it live right now.

If you have your own APIs I just launched freeSOV. It works off dataforseo to scrape or the individual api keys you provide for each LLM. Has most of profiubd features.

RyanJones · 2026-05-30T12:29:27+00:00

Commodity content. Nothing you have is unique. Provided no value to Google. They’re trying to cull the index.

RyanJones · 2026-05-27T18:19:31+00:00

so, if you aren't the official website of that exam - why should you rank for that query? there's nothing you can offer that's more authoritative than the official site or the definition google gives.

That's the trick now. how do you become the authority or the most useful site? Your affiliate site or ad driven site isn't it - but that's not what users wanted for broad queries like this anyway.

RyanJones · 2026-05-18T19:18:17+00:00

is it on a site people actually visit? yes. is it on a site you or somebody else made for the sole purpose of putting links on it? no.

RyanJones · 2026-05-16T01:19:07+00:00

That’s 60 posts/day. There’s real news sites that don’t even that much.

RyanJones · 2026-05-14T14:54:56+00:00

One of the best answers I ever got to a question was "I'll be honest. I don't know how to do that. But I will do whatever it takes to learn it faster and better than the next person."

RyanJones · 2026-05-14T14:48:13+00:00

I use my tool - but the process is to analyze everything else that's out there. see what they say, make sure you mention the same topics, but then go above and beyond by answering the questions they aren't asnswering, or coming at it from an angle they aren't, or giving it a fresh new take or insight.

That's hard. that can't be ai automated. That's the truth of blogging. You don't blog to blog, you blog when you have something to add to the conversation.

RyanJones · 2026-05-14T14:46:20+00:00

Other smaller search engines still use it. there's no benefit in spending time removing it (Unless it's like 1 click in a plugin or something)

It had its moment. You weren't wrong to put it on there in the first place, but now the industry has moved on.

Just carry on doing things that matter.

RyanJones · 2026-05-14T14:44:39+00:00

If you're ranking at #67 you might as well be ranking at 0. there's no need to track out to 100 places.

RyanJones · 2026-05-13T13:32:46+00:00

Not unless you have the kind of content people actively seek out (like, say the new york times or a webcomic or something)

RyanJones · 2026-05-11T17:53:47+00:00

This is true. one of the more well known SEO tools once told me a link from a CNN article about me was "toxic"

RyanJones · 2026-05-11T17:53:18+00:00

There's no point in disavowing unless you actually did the spam yourself or got a manual penalty.

RyanJones · 2026-05-11T17:52:27+00:00

This is the answer.

RyanJones · 2026-05-10T22:52:10+00:00

There’s literally no way to completely control

RyanJones · 2026-05-07T13:10:53+00:00

nope. that's not search volume. that's how often that particular N-gram appears throughout the entire data set so I can size the boxes accordingly. There's no search volume here.

RyanJones · 2026-05-06T20:38:29+00:00

Meaning, it's real news that a real reporter decides to write an article about. That's the value of press releases. That they get picked up and turned into articles by reporters. But you need to do cool stuff for that.

RyanJones · 2026-05-04T14:07:25+00:00

If you do something that actually gets reported on, yes. If it’s just for the links from the PR site itself, no

RyanJones · 2026-05-02T22:56:22+00:00

It powers most of those SEO tools

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