Questions
-
Number of indexed pages dropped. No manual action though?
Hello Rodney, From what you can see, have there been any significant changes in your website's rankings to go along with the traffic drop? I have a client who had some web development work done by their team and they accidentally deleted the GA tracking code, leading to an enormous drop in registered traffic but no difference in rankings. If your rankings are still intact, try seeking out the UA on your homepage to ensure it hasn't been tampered with. If it is still there and GA is accurately tracking your data, then you probably have a lingering hack that was sprung after the cleanup occurred. These things can come back to bite you if a code audit isn't performed by a security tech to ensure the site is properly cleaned. The loss of indexed pages sounds like there might be an issue in your robots.txt file or with your sitemap. The last part of this might be an automated Panda penalty, but this is probably the least likely option. During the hack, was there any nefarious link-building conducted that you're aware of? What you're experiencing might be the lingering effects of an automated Penguin penalty (there can be several months of sluggish rankings following one of these). Let me know about the above and I will see what else I can do to help! Thanks and best of luck, Rob
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Toddfoster0