How To Let Google Know That Your Google Search, Discover & News Traffic Significantly Dropped
On Friday, Google’s Search Liaison, Danny Sullivan, said you can reply to a thread on X or post a help thread in Google’s forums to let him know about sites that saw a significant drop in Google Search, Google Discover and Google News traffic recently.
It also seems that Lily Ray is building a Google Sheet with this data to pass along to Danny Sullivan at Google.
Lily posted a form on her site that you can also fill out, which she said, “To everyone who messaged me yesterday regarding recent traffic drops in Google Discover, Top Stories, News etc. Please help me stay organized by filling out the below form. I am putting together something formal to send to Google.”
10.6 million clicks to 0 overnight in less than 3 months. Just crazy.@searchliaison @JohnMu all of my inboxes are full of stories like these from publishers all over the world.
Not just Discover but Top Stories too.
I understand there were core updates and a glitch… https://t.co/ownYd9dhaW
— Lily Ray 😏 (@lilyraynyc) November 17, 2023
However, it does not follow that if you send your site to Google you should see any benefits. I mean, here are some of the responses Danny Sullivan posted to some complaints already:
@searchliaison Hi again Danny!
It looks like our site was ranking in the Taiwan version of Google. But the subfolder (/zh-TW) has now been deleted for 2 months. Is there any way to get Google to understand this and start to rank the content in the Swedish index? Thanks pic.twitter.com/efXTfdtU7I
— Mobilanyheter (@mobilanyheter) November 16, 2023
He replied to a post on Reddit about an SEO saying that after doing SEO for twenty years, it is not working just like before. Mueller said, “Okay, I’m going to jump the gun, but this sounds more of a plan that even if it works well; you will be coming back here with an update.” “For once, I can’t give a direct ‘one tip that SEOs hate’ but However, nothing remains for forever, thus the web is always adapting itself as per new user’s needs and interests yet; still, there exist some items like “short-lived hacks” unless if you ask this to ask yourself “How long before Google detects it?” or
So in general, let google know that such a site exists and perhaps google would like to readjust its algorithms to better bring up such kinds of websites and content. I do not know whether it will help or not; however, what is there to lose at this time?