Rankings can drop for a Lot of reasons, from technical issues and algorithm Update to content changes, or stronger competition.
Everyone seems to have a different process when Investigating.
What's the very first thing you check and why? Interested to hear how others approach it.
Hey my traffic was starting decreasing from januray 2026 but after March 2026 it got stable and it started increasing a bit in May 2026. However, Ahrefs and Semrush still show that my traffic was going down and is now close to 18K. But in Google Analytics, I have more than 65K views, and in Google Search Console, I get around 30K clicks.
Can you tell me how I can improve it?
I've been consistently getting 60% of my traffic from no source, every analytics dashboard says Direct. and I've tried them all. I simply can't imagine people typing in website URL directly since it's a two-month old SAAS.
So can anyone help me with this?
Just read about websites getting removed from Google Search because of fake DMCA claims.
Has this happened to anyone here? How did you notice it, and how long did it take to get the page back?
Curious how common this actually is.
A few months back I indexed my website on Google, after a while it started gradually becoming unindexed. I’ve been trying ever since April but it just won’t work, some problems have been in the process of validation for weeks. Any help?
I have been working in SEO for more than five months now. What other skills would you recommend that complement SEO, are relatively easy to learn, and can help me grow in my career?
any tools , plugins , etc which workout ??
3:4, 16:9
and do they effect seo ??
Most people do keyword research backwards. They start with a tool, find volume numbers and then try to rank for something they think people are searching for.
But GSC tells you what's actually working already. If you're getting impressions for a keyword, it means Google already thinks your content is relevant for that intent even if you're ranking on page 3 or 4.
That's a much stronger signal than any volume estimate. It means the intent already aligns with what your business offers. You're not guessing anymore. Curious if others are using GSC this way or if you're still starting with external keyword tools first.
Read a study that showed by a large margin, earned citations and social & community citations outweighed all on-page content factors. This was tracking 6 major AI models across 31 industries.
(Question 1) How are people getting these off-site mentions?
Are people expanding their PR teams?
Encouraging more cross-collaborating between SEO and PR teams?
Experimenting with any social influencer/creator marketing (B2B or B2C)?
(Question 2) Between citation volume and compounding what seems to be driving the most results?
I've also read that AI systems reward consistent presence, aka entity building, in a select few related domains. On the other hand, getting as many citations as you can is also an effective strategy.
Am I missing anything or thinking about this wrong?
No manual penalties, just the algorithm obliterating my traffic. My site went from being #1-3 for a bunch of high search volume, commercial intent keywords to barely ranking for anything. I thought the January update was a huge hit but this May update absolutely killed me. The site is https://nsfwstory.com if anyone wants to do a post mortem. I connected my GSC to Claude and was asking it questions and it's saying that it was my backlink profile but I really think it was the fact that I had a bunch of AI generated stories in the story library. I mean, the entire purpose of the story library is for users to post their generated stories publicly but if Google's devaluing AI generated content then I guess it makes sense. Pour one out for your dead homie.
I have 3 website and crwler havent been to my site in 12th june what can be the issue?
I have a theoretical understanding of how discovery for MCP services and AI agents should work, but I'm much more interested in real-world experience.
Has anyone here actually worked on SEO/discoverability for AI agents?
What ended up mattering most? Metadata, structured outputs, citations, schemas, directories... or something completely different?
Would love to hear what's working in practice.
Posting this because I'm curious if anyone else here has run into something similar.
Had a client last year where every traditional metric looked great. Organic traffic climbing month over month, page-one rankings on the keywords that actually mattered, PPC performing well. If you'd shown me the dashboard cold, I'd have called the account a success story.
But transactional conversions were quietly going down. And weirdly, competitors with objectively weaker SEO numbers were winning deals that should've gone to my client.
We went through the usual checklist technical SEO, content quality, backlink profile, even sales process and pricing. Nothing explained it.
The thing that finally cracked it: we started typing the kinds of questions a prospect would actually ask into ChatGPT: “best [category] providers,” “is [client] any good,” that kind of thing.
Turns out the AI was citing old negative reviews and outdated negative press, stuff that had been buried in normal search results for years but was apparently still very visible to whatever these models were pulling from. In a few responses it was straight up steering people toward competitors based on that old content.
We ended up tracking this manually for a few months - logging AI responses over time, figuring out which negative sources kept getting cited, then working on review sentiment, structured data, and general trust signals to shift what was surfacing. Conversions were up 40% about three months later, with no real change in traffic or rankings during that window.
What got me is how invisible this is in standard reporting. Nothing in GSC or our rank tracker ever flagged it. The only way we found it was by literally asking the AI the same questions a buyer would.
Has anyone else seen this pattern where good traditional SEO numbers masking a sentiment/citation problem specifically in AI tools? Curious how others are even monitoring for this right now, if at all.
Do you know you can use AI for getting ideas for finding blog for backlinks, not sure how many people use this techniques but its help me a lot.