2018 Visitors Decrease Case Study

[analis]

- from December 2017 to January 2018 I had -50 / -55% visitors (there was an update of the algorithm).

- end of May the inclusion email in mobile first arrives.

- June -9%, July + 2%, August + 4% return to growth

- 1/26 weeks + 2%, from September 27th the collapse, about September 28th - 30% compared to the last Friday of September last year and maybe it's not over ..

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I always have doubts about MOBILE FIRST because after the inclusion in the new index I recovered and now that Google on September 20 included new sites to one week return to decline ..


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[goodroi]

Thanks for sharing. Your time period crosses over several updates to Google which could be impacting your traffic metrics.

IMHO a mobile first email doesn't necessarily mean anything because we don't know the status of our competition. If our desktop & mobile versions are basically the same, then we will have basically the same rankings. I would focus on other factors before looking too much at mobile first (assuming your mobile pages are properly built).

[MrSavage]

Whatever you've lost, they've gained. That's the way to look at it. There was a video game from the 80's called Beach Head 2. Check that out because it's essentially like the organic traffic getting picked off before it has a chance to land on your or my site. Not a sexy answer or one that you can sell services on, granted. But it's the truth.