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(Entry was posted by Kathy Daunt on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 05/21/2014).

I got down in Google SERP results. Is this any minor algorithm update?

HI All, ,

As said in Mozcast (http://mozcast.com/) the weather for last Friday and Saturday was too bad and I got down in Google SERP results. Is this any minor algorithm update??

And after the softer algorithm update on March 24, 2014 there is decrease in organic traffic to my site.
Is there any possibilities to increase organic traffic again?

Kindly help me. Thanks in advance?
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  • Kathy Daunt: HI All,,

    As said in Mozcast (http://mozcast.com/) the weather for last Friday and Saturday was too bad and I got down in Google SERP results. Is this any minor algorithm update??

    And after the softer algorithm update on March 24, 2014 there is decrease in organic traffic to my site.
    Is there any possibilities to increase organic traffic again?

    Kindly help me. Thanks in advance
  • Edwin Jonk: From the expert panel in this weeks SEO Questions hangout on air on 00:02:07 into the YouTube video: https://dumbseoquestions.com/q/i_got_down_in_google_serp_results_is_this_any_minor_algorithm_update +Kathy Daunt

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  • Kathy Daunt: Thanks +Edwin Jonk ; The video was pretty much useful to me. ;

    In SERP, my keywords went down by 4 or 5 positions down but still in page 1, but there was heavy organic traffic drop.

    As you mentioned I have checked the below

    => we didn't get any message in webmaster regarding penalty
    => we are not doing payday loan marketing
    => checked the website content and found out a bit of duplicate content and we are working on it.
    => Checked the keyword density: The keyword density of my page is 2% greater than my competitors. Does this keyword density make any sense for this 2%?
    => As this happens during softer panda update, we guess panda roll out might a be a reason for drop

    Let me know your suggestions? How can we recover from this?
  • Edwin Jonk: +Kathy Daunt ;I think it is better to ask a new question, where you ask a question specific to your TLD. Although we don't appreciate active links, you are welcome to share your domain like example(dot)com.

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