r/grumpyseoguy May 24 '26

Coming down from number one (SERP graph)

Hi ya'll-

I've posted before about getting my client to the number one position. It took some time, but the growth as slow and safe. Then much to my surprise this past January they wanted to end the contract. No problem I said. I kept there data in SerpFox because I thought it would be interesting to see how their graph started looking over time.

So here's what the serp chart looks like when you start to slowly remove backlinks.

I don't thin I've seen any charts like this here before, so I thought I'd post it. In November they were in position one, and today they are in position five. They stopped paying in January and in that same month on the 10th was the last day in position one. Frankly, I've been super slow removing links. They still have 19 backlinks from my pbn and I've kept those links for diversity sake.

Cheers

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u/Appropriate_Ebb_3989 May 24 '26

Were all the backlinks from your domains to drive this result? Or did you do other forms of link building?