The Hidden Triggers Behind Your Website’s Traffic Plunge—and How to Beat Them Fast

The Hidden Triggers Behind Your Website’s Traffic Plunge—and How to Beat Them Fast
An orange box highlighting the pages report on Google Search Console

The report will tell you if you accidentally block important pages from being indexed or crawled via robots.txt rules, noindex tags, or faulty canonical tags. These are easy mistakes to make in your SEO plugin settings.

An orange arrow highlighting the Hide page from search engines toggle via the Jetpack plugin
This is a built-in SEO feature on WordPress.com’s Business and Commerce plans. Learn more about these settings here.

Advanced tools like Screaming Frog and Sitebulb can also help you examine your website for technical problems.

If you find any, reverting your drop in website traffic is mostly a matter of correcting your mistakes, updating and submitting your sitemap, and validating the fixes in Google Search Console.

Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28

You May Have Missed