SEO is all about consistency, patience, and continuous improvement.
100K clicks is not just a number, it’s the result of showing up, creating value, optimizing, and trusting the process.

Small improvements + consistent effort = measurable growth. 🚀

Here’s to the next milestone!

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to understand whether we're dealing with a Google algorithm update or if there's something specific affecting our website.

For the past 6 months, our website has been growing consistently. We reached:

• 300-350+ organic clicks per day
• 18,000-19,000 daily impressions
• More than 150,000 indexed pages

Then, starting around August 16, everything changed almost overnight.

5.500 Impressions and 108 Clicks

Between August 16-18, we experienced:

• A sudden drop in impressions.
• Organic clicks falling dramatically.
• Many pages that had ranked on the first page for months disappearing from the search results for their primary keywords.
• Rankings dropping across multiple unrelated sections of the website, not just one category.

The strange part is that the site appears to be technically healthy:

• Pages are still indexed (site: search returns them normally).
• No Manual Actions.
• No Security Issues.
• Core Web Vitals: Passed.
• Crawl Stats look healthy.
• No server migration.
• No robots.txt or noindex changes.
• No major structural or technical changes before the drop.

I also noticed that Google officially started rolling out the August 2026 Spam Update on August 18, so I'm wondering if this timing is just a coincidence or if others are seeing similar behavior. Google says the rollout may take several days to complete.

Has anyone else experienced a similar drop around August 16-18?

I'd really appreciate hearing from anyone who has seen the same pattern or has ideas on what else I should investigate.

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Sharing a small SEO win from a streetwear e-commerce brand I’ve been working on for the last 3 months.

The website itself is only around 4 months old, and the growth has been mostly organic.

Last 3 months vs previous 3 months:

• Clicks: 174 → 992 (+470%)
• Impressions: 612 → 33.2K (+5,325%)
• Avg. position: 15.2 → 11.1

What I’ve focused on:

• Proper keyword research for collection pages
• Optimizing and expanding important collection pages
• Building topical authority through blogs
• Targeting topics closely connected to the products and audience
• Very little focus on backlinks so far

The main takeaway for me: a new e-commerce site doesn’t always need hundreds of backlinks to start getting traction. Strong keyword research, relevant collection pages, and building topical authority can move the needle.

Still early days, but the foundation is looking good. 🚀

I recently launched a small tool website and started tracking it in Google Search Console.

After the first few days, I'm seeing:

445 impressions

5 clicks

1.1% CTR

The website is still very new, so I'm not sure if this is a good start or if there are things I should change now.

For people who have experience with SEO:

What would you focus on at this stage?

Should I focus more on:

Getting more backlinks

Creating more useful pages/tools

Improving on-page SEO

Targeting long-tail keywords

Just waiting and collecting more data

Site: www.getythumb.com

I'd appreciate any practical tips for growing a new tool website from this stage.

SEO newbie needing some advice

I recently made this new site which is in the finance and business topic for the UK

This is how search console is looking after about 6 weeks

Impressions are picking up and the avg position has been about 8 over the last 7 days. So as far as I know this means my site is ranking on the first page.

But I only have 7 clicks which seems low if I’m on page 1?

I also noticed that the queries where I’m ranking position 1 all have just 1 impressions and are really short or look like follow up questions. The gen ai impressions also really picked up, so does this all point to my site is being shown in AI overviews?

I read that only 1% of the links shown in ai overviews get clicked so maybe that’s why I only have 7 clicks

Also, just from everyone’s experience launching new sites, does this look ok for 6 weeks or should I expect a lot more traffic by now? ( there’s about 20 articles on the site)

Thanks for your thoughts

Been building AlphaFonts — a free tool to generate fancy fonts, symbols, and aesthetic text you can copy-paste for Instagram bios, TikTok, Discord, usernames, etc.

Just checked Search Console and wasn't expecting this so early: 2.95K impressions and 31 clicks in the last 24 hours (screenshot attached). CTR is still low (~1.1%) since it's brand new and I'm still ranking on page 2-3 for most terms, but seeing it get indexed and showing up this fast has been motivating.

No sign-up, no paywall, just a simple tool: alphafonts.com

Happy to answer questions if anyone's working on something similar — genuinely curious what got your early traction too.

Around 2-3 weeks ago I launched my SaaS, SeoLoupe.

It is a lightweight SEO tool that helps you find and fix SEO issues holding your website back, currently I am at 432 users and 5 paying users.

Essentianly the main purpose is to help your website rank higher on Google search and LLMs.

Since I am always trying my best to improve the product, I am happy to answer any questions or any feedback in the comments.

(here is the product if you want to check it out)

In just a few months of working on an app installation niche, we increased clicks from 353 to 657 and impressions from 6.85K to 28.7K in the latest 28-day period. The focus was on fixing SEO foundations, targeting the right keywords, improving content and site structure, and building relevant authority.

If your website has low traffic, poor rankings, or declining visibility, there may be untapped potential. I can help identify what’s holding your website back and build a strategy focused on more organic traffic, clicks, and conversions.

Today my Google search impressions and clicks have really taken off, suddenly growing dozens of times over, and the trend is still rising!

This site has actually been live for three months, but it had always been lukewarm, with fewer than 100 impressions a day and almost no clicks. Today it suddenly climbed into the top 10 on Google (which means it’s now on the first page), and impressions and clicks have started to surge.

What I did right was to keep building backlinks and improving the user experience, and to keep working even when there was no traffic. I’ve finally started to see results, and I’m happy.

Hey everyone,

I wanted to share a recent technical SEO win I achieved for a client in the highly competitive local party rentals niche. A lot of people think you just need to pump out content and build links, but sometimes the biggest bottleneck is the site's architecture itself.

Here is the exact breakdown of what we did to trigger this massive hockey-stick growth (see the attached SEMrush graph).

The Problem (The Starting Point):

• The site was bloated. It was originally built on WPBakery, causing severe code bloat.
• Core Web Vitals were failing miserably. Lighthouse scores were consistently below 60.
• TBT (Total Blocking Time) was through the roof, and CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift) was ruining the mobile user experience.
• Search Console was full of crawl errors and indexed-but-not-submitted pages.

🛠️ The Strategy & Execution:

1. Architecture Migration: We systematically located all old shortcodes via SQL queries and completely rebuilt the page architectures using Elementor. We stripped out unnecessary plugins.
2. Frontend & CWV Optimization: By fixing layout shifts and optimizing asset delivery, we achieved a perfect 0 CLS and dropped the TBT down to just 160ms. Lighthouse performance scores hit the green zone.
3. Technical Cleanup: Conducted a deep technical audit. Fixed all crawl anomalies, cleaned up the sitemap, and disavowed a batch of toxic legacy links that were holding the domain back.
4. Keyword Gap Closure: Optimized existing high-intent collection pages based on competitive gaps we found during the audit.

📈 The Results: As you can see in the graph, once Google re-crawled the optimized, lightning-fast architecture, the rankings skyrocketed.

• Organic traffic peaked at nearly 2.9K/month.
• Authority Score stabilized at 27.
• Top 3 and Top 10 keyword positions saw a massive spike.

The Takeaway: Before pouring money into off-page SEO, make sure your technical foundation is bulletproof. A fast, accessible, and error-free site makes every other SEO effort 10x more effective.

I’m a Full-Stack Web Dev & SEO Specialist. If anyone is struggling with Core Web Vitals, page builder bloat, or technical audits, drop your questions below! I’ll try to answer and help out as many people as I can today.

The website was simply losing opportunities because several small SEO mistakes had built up over time.

I started by going through the website from the ground up, technical issues, site structure, service pages, keyword targeting, internal links, content, indexing, and search intent. Instead of throwing more content and backlinks at the site, I first focused on understanding why Google wasn’t giving enough visibility to the pages that actually mattered.

Some service pages were not properly aligned with the keywords they could realistically rank for, internal linking wasn't supporting the important pages, and the overall structure wasn't making it easy for search engines to understand the relationship between the services and supporting content.

After cleaning up those areas and rebuilding the keyword and content strategy around actual search intent, the website started showing a much healthier trend.

Within two months, clicks and impressions began increasing consistently, and rankings became more stable. There wasn't a sudden overnight spike or some questionable shortcut - just steady improvement from fixing the foundation and making the website more relevant to what people were actually searching for.

One thing I've learned after working in SEO for years is that a website doesn't always need a completely new strategy. Sometimes it needs someone to step back, audit what has already been done, identify what's holding it back, and fix those issues properly.

If you're running a construction or service-based website and your clicks have been slowly declining or you've been doing SEO for months without seeing meaningful growth, I'd look at the foundation before doing more of the same. There may already be potential in the website that simply isn't being utilized properly.