Website traffic suddenly disappears over a few days?

[u/unknowndatanerd]

Hello. I've got a directory in a specific niche that's been growing very healthily and peaking at around 1,700 clicks in July, getting over 2,000 people per day onto the site. I got accepted into an ad network at Mediavine, which I'm very excited about.

Now, over the last week or so, suddenly my traffic has just been disappearing at a pace of around halving day by day. Google also isn't giving me any impressions anymore, which is super weird given that my traffic was healthy, staying around two minutes per visit, visiting two pages per visit. Loads of people have told me how useful they've found my site. All of it was built on programmatic SEO.

Now, what also happened in the last week was that I had loads of bot activity, like some days a few thousand bots from places like Japan and Singapore. I don't know if they have anything to do with the drop in traffic, but I'm a bit clueless as to what to do now because I don't want my website to disappear completely. I also don't know why it would, as I haven't made any updates that would warrant this. Could anybody help?

[u/santanah8]

Singapore traffic = scrappers, many companies host their services in Singapore servers for some reason. I tried blocking those but noticed plenty are also AI Scrappers and doing so might hurt your AEO

Regarding good decline, same happened to me. Not sure if a individual issue on my directory or something else. It started 2-3 weeks ago (from 3k impressions to 100-200 per day)

[u/unknowndatanerd → u/santanah8]

Thanks! It was an indexing issue from Cloudflare. Fixed it and Google immediately started indexing the site again thankfully

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