Recent Google Core Update Makes Big Impact on Site Traffic

A person in a large online SEO marketing discussion thread said that it has been two months since the May core update. They wanted to know if anybody who experienced a downfall had recovered from it yet. The May core update caused a lot of problems for some and some good results for a few. This person wanted to know if anyone found a successful technique for overcoming the problem. If they did, the original poster asked them to share what it was and how much it helped with recovering traffic.

One person replied and said that they monitor two health and fitness sites. One is cheesy and got hit hard in the last two years with updates. It's now basically a content farm. The other has better quality of content and authorship. Even so, it lost 95% of its traffic. It keeps getting hit and is dropping to about 1% of the traffic it used to get. In the past two months, the were able to increase it from its low, but it is nowhere near where it had been two years ago.

A different person who has a health and fitness site said they had a 15% increase in traffic after the core update. In June, they had a 25% decrease. One person had an argument with the terminology used by the original poster. They said it is not a recovery. It is an accurate showing of where the site should rank basked on the new algorithms. If a person keep building how they did before the update, their rank won't improve. They have to make changes based on the new algorithms.

Someone else said they took a hit. A different individual said they lost 30% overall, but they saw an increase after last week's update. They have gone up by 20% from their lowest spot, but are still down overall. A couple of people reported that they had success from the update, with an increase in total impressions, clicks and organic traffic. They said they did not do anything special to their content, but it is user-focused. For more information click here https://www.reddit.com/r/SEO/comments/hm42ur/itsbeen2monthssincemaycoreupdateanyone/.