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Diagnosing & Recovering a Post-Update Traffic Drop

A site blamed a Google update for a traffic drop. The real cause was partly technical — and fixable.

Root-cause

Diagnosis

Technical + decay

Cause

Recovering

Trajectory

The challenge

Organic traffic fell and the team assumed a core update. Months of generic 'improve E-E-A-T' effort hadn't helped, because the real cause hadn't been diagnosed.

The approach

  • Ran a forensic diagnosis correlating the drop to updates, changes, and SERP shifts
  • Separated a technical/indexation regression from update impact and content decay
  • Prioritised a recovery roadmap matched to the real causes
  • Executed and monitored until trends reversed

The outcome

  • An honest root-cause diagnosis instead of guesswork
  • Targeted fixes addressing the actual drivers of the drop
  • A recovering trajectory and a clearer technical baseline

Anonymised under NDA. Representative of a real engagement; specifics withheld per client agreement.

Service behind this

Advanced Manual Technical SEO Audit

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