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Site Traffic Suddenly Dropped after receiving DMCA notices

         

peteryu

10:09 am on Jul 26, 2018 (gmt 0)

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My site receives around 100 DMCA notices concerning 10000 pages in May, 2018. We file counter e-mails for these complaints. On June 25th, our site rank all disappeared and site traffic droped by 85%. Now all of the page URLs have been reinstated in search results. But the ranks haven't recovered.
Does anyone have similar experiences? How can we recover our ranks?

NickMNS

12:58 pm on Jul 26, 2018 (gmt 0)

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There is no way to know whether the two events are even related. Given that the events occurred more than 30 days apart it is more likely than not that the event are not related.

JesterMagic

10:13 pm on Jul 26, 2018 (gmt 0)

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The serps have jumped around a lot these pass few months so it is hard to saw. I wouldn't say it is out of the question that it could be a factor as I find Google algo moves rather slow for corrections.

robzilla

10:20 pm on Jul 26, 2018 (gmt 0)

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That's a lot of takedown notices. None of them were valid?

tangor

6:44 am on Jul 27, 2018 (gmt 0)

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It could be that whoever filed the DMCAs has convinced g they are the proper source? Are you in a highly competitive niche?

Dimitri

11:31 am on Jul 27, 2018 (gmt 0)

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You might be navigating in a gray zone.

tangor

11:50 am on Jul 27, 2018 (gmt 0)

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Okay, that's a new one for me. Where is it in relation to Twilight, Red or End?

dmjosh

1:48 am on Aug 1, 2018 (gmt 0)

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What is the cause of the dmca problem? I know it's pretty obvious but you should really not have that kind of content on your site because quite frankly it's just going to keep causing problems that you can't really fix.

Otherwise unless something else happened at the same time, you probably just have to wait for Google to respond to your site and reprocess all your signals.

I repeat this will probably keep happening. You're probably an edge case Google doesn't care about. You might want to change your business strategy.