Google devalued my site

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

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  Joanna Jana Laznicka: Where are your servers located, what kind of contact info and legals do you have on your site. - contact page do you have a real address, do you have all the right legals? Is your site mobile friendly....
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  George G.: build better links
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  Ryan Jones: wait, did you think removing internal links and de-optimizing your title tags would get you more traffic?
  
  the EAT stuff all depends on the site. do you have real authors on your articles? are you a brand or an entity? are there signals on the web to support that you are? Citations? links from other places? is the content unique? there`s a ton of factors that go into it. You can`t fix it with just on page optimizations.
  
  You have to ask yourself this: do visitors trust me? Look at who ranks, see what they do that you aren`t doing.
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  Michael Martinez: Well, the good news is that E-A-T is just an SEO myth. Google doesn`t actually grade or rank your site by those criteria. Google`s quality raters are supposed to evaluate the results they are shown by estimating how reliable the sites are, and E-A-T is what they are supposed to determine. Google still wants a well-organized Website to crawl and analyze and it sounds like you removed the organization. Their neural matching algorithm may be affecting your site, and it`s trying to do a better job of matching Website content to user queries. We`re seeing success on sites that do a better job of explaining concepts, but it`s still early in the life of this latest algorithm. It`s possible Google is still tweaking the signals it uses to analyze content.