Problems with Wordpress and Yoast SEO Plugin

[rodcunha]

Hi,

I've been working with a Wordpress site and the Wordpress SEO plugin for a few months now and I've managed to get pretty decent results for some of the keywords I was targeting, however since last week I've lost all my rankings sharply and everything dropped out.

This had happened once before and the problem was that the plugin was somehow stopped but not this time.

I've had a look through all of the MOZ resources and I cannot find what the problem might be. Page optimization hasn't changed and the on page rankings are the same here. Everything seems to be the same except that all my top 10 ranking disappeared.

I'm new to all of this and I'm still learning so I'd appreciate if anyone could help me on this. I'm up for trying any ideas you might have but I've tried almost everything I could.

I've reinstalled, updated and done everything I could with the plugin, I've checked that Google is indexing the pages and it is. I've monitored for errors on the pages and critical issues, nothing major to report so I don't know anymore what to do.

Thank you so much in advance for your help.

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[DeanAndrews]

I'm slightly confused as the question title is 'Problems with Wordpress and Yoast SEO Plugin' however you then say 'the plugin was somehow stopped but not this time'. Are you having an issue with the plugin or could it possible be something else you have done either on or off site?

[KempRugeLawGroup]

From the pictures you attached, I'm not so sure you even have a problem. While a 19% drop looks bad, given your numbers, we're only talking about 7 people.

• Ruben

[rodcunha]

No, the last time when I updated the plugin it stopped itself off and I noticed it wasn't active an I activated it and the rankings returned soon after but I can't seem to find the problem right now.

I'm not even sure if the problem is with the Plugin at this stage, it might be something else but I haven't changed anything on the site at all and I can't for the life of me think of anything else or a way to resolve the issue.

[rodcunha]

Hi Ruben it isn't the numbers of people, and that is already after a week of the rankings going down significantly, normally my numbers would be on the 100+ per week.

The main problem is the organic keywords dropping from 6 top 3 keywords and over 10 top 10's to 0 top 10 keywords and my best placed keyword is ranking 11th.

This is the main problem.