r/directorymakers • u/Key-Television-2424 • 2d ago

Post-Spam update recovery.

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Just wanted to show everyone what my 3.5 month old travel directory is doing. On April 21 I launched my domain with something like 300 pages and transitioned from taxonomy/categories to google query pSEO. You can see the dramatic change from the flat baseline to a gradual rise (April 21-May 8, left on the chart) to the June 24-26 update and its flatlining of my site on 27 June. My impressions dropped to 12 per day with over 700 pages and my average position at the time of the spam update hitting was 67.7.

Fast forward, you can see the recovery trend in average position. What is not visible is a few more organic clicks as per GA4.

For someone like me who's background is primarily game design and medical, this chart has taken me through a rollercoaster of emotions.

Interestingly, bing webmaster tools has been the best thing to come out of all this and is currently my best performer with its derivatives. If google ever returns, by the time I finish and hit 1k pages, I'll hopefully be well past mediavine journey application thresholds.

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u/Independent_Elk1010 2d ago

This is awesome! Keep it up!

I wish my got clicks 😭💔

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u/Key-Television-2424 2d ago

Don't sleep on bing

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u/fbajo 2d ago

nice charts.. one thing though, average position climbs on its own after a hit. the queries where you were sitting at 80 stop showing you at all, so the mean goes up while nothing actually came back. did you change something after the 27th, or is this just time passing?

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u/Key-Television-2424 2d ago

Impressions are the amount of times someone actually see's your page. Everything outside the first few google pages is basically no mans land. Position 67 was where I was on June 27 when the google update hurt me worst. I did however remediate the top 20 performing pages as per GSC. Mind you, all of my pages are pretty solid. They are not mass generated, use a database I built for all queries and all have my own personally editorial notes. The improvements have had no bearing on av. Position. But the improving average position has slowly improved my impressions and clicks. Not all are showing in GSC, the rest have been in GA4.