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SEO: What To Do When
Your Organic Traffic Drops
Stephanie Alvarado
Inbound Marketing Associate
getsmartacre.com
salvarado@getsmartacre.com
#lvhug
Do NOT Panic
#lvhug
1. Was there an algorithm update?
2. Is this seasonal behavior?
3. Are your keywords targeting a smaller
demographic?
Ask yourself...
#lvhug
But…
What if you answered
“no” to all 3 questions?
3 More Reasons
Google’s Quality Update in March 2018 reduced the
ranking of websites that are deemed to be low quality,
including websites that have multiple errors, feature
aggressive advertising or consist largely of poorly-
written or irrelevant content.
Only index content that you’re interested in ranking for
and that qualifies as “Valuable Content”
Indexing Everything
#lvhug
1. High Quality
2. Engaging
3. Credible
Valuable content is...
#lvhug
1. Does your site have broken links?
2. Did you have a recent site redesign?
3. Did you move from a subdirectory to a
subdomain?
4. Do you have high quality link juice?
5. Are you providing valuable anchor text?
Problems with your Links
#lvhug
Poor Optimizations
#lvhug
● MozCast - Report forecasting change in Google's algorithm
● Google Trends - Let’s you know what are trending topics
● Google’s March Algorithm update - what you need to know
● Steps to prune content without negatively impacting your site
● Moz Link Explorer - to help you diagnose your links
● Anatomy of Perfectly Optimized Page - Brian Deans guide to
On-page SEO
Useful Tools
#lvhug
#LVHUG
See You Next Quarter!

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SEO: What To Do When Your Organic Traffic Drops

  • 2. SEO: What To Do When Your Organic Traffic Drops
  • 3. Stephanie Alvarado Inbound Marketing Associate getsmartacre.com salvarado@getsmartacre.com #lvhug
  • 5. 1. Was there an algorithm update? 2. Is this seasonal behavior? 3. Are your keywords targeting a smaller demographic? Ask yourself... #lvhug
  • 6. But… What if you answered “no” to all 3 questions?
  • 7.
  • 9. Google’s Quality Update in March 2018 reduced the ranking of websites that are deemed to be low quality, including websites that have multiple errors, feature aggressive advertising or consist largely of poorly- written or irrelevant content. Only index content that you’re interested in ranking for and that qualifies as “Valuable Content” Indexing Everything #lvhug
  • 10. 1. High Quality 2. Engaging 3. Credible Valuable content is... #lvhug
  • 11.
  • 12. 1. Does your site have broken links? 2. Did you have a recent site redesign? 3. Did you move from a subdirectory to a subdomain? 4. Do you have high quality link juice? 5. Are you providing valuable anchor text? Problems with your Links #lvhug
  • 14.
  • 15. ● MozCast - Report forecasting change in Google's algorithm ● Google Trends - Let’s you know what are trending topics ● Google’s March Algorithm update - what you need to know ● Steps to prune content without negatively impacting your site ● Moz Link Explorer - to help you diagnose your links ● Anatomy of Perfectly Optimized Page - Brian Deans guide to On-page SEO Useful Tools #lvhug