Merchant Center Free Listings Report

Seeing a drop in free traffic by about 90%

[logan2914]

In the free listings section of Merchant center, we were seeing daily traffic of about 33K-36K impressions in free listings prior to the Google review algorithm update. The reviews we had did not have schema, but we were getting that set up, mostly from 3rd party reviewers on our products (cell phones). Since April 11th our traffic has dropped to about 2,500 impressions. We finally have gotten the schema set up in the pages, but we are not seeing any uplift.
I have submitted this to the Google developers forum and was told that the changes may occur after the next update. I am trying to see if thereis any other reason. FYI, we do take the site down for maintenance for about 8-10 hours 1x/week.
Any help in this is greatly appreciated.

[tangor]

@logan2914 .... Welcome to Webmasterworld!

Schema may or may not have a bearing in this regard. G is clearing out a bunch of stuff these days.

The 8-10 take down might not have anything to do with the reduced impressions, but I am curious, why that long? Longest I've taken a site down for any reason is about 30-60 minutes!

[logan2914]

Thank you for the response. The 503 was implemented before my time here. However, I was able to find out that instead of taking the site down, they will set up a UI that will keep the page up, but will have a message that no transactions can be performed it at this time. The company thet runs the majority of this site is very reluctant to make any changes to the site (we sell mobile phones), since they feel what they have works well, but there are so many problems w/ this.