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(Entry was posted by Victor Castillejos on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 10/15/2015).

I still don`t have my normal traffic

Hello,

Me again, with a dumb question...

Last week I got an email saying that Visual Composer had a vulnerability, after this email I decided to update the plugin and to update a few plugins I use.  Everything went ok, and 1 hour later I was done with my update, with this update I erased the Google Analytics script, I did check my stats a few days later and I found that I was not getting the same amount of traffic, I didn`t do anything as  thought this was normal, but after 2 more days I got the 0 visits mark, of course I was getting less and lees traffic as I didn`t have the GA script...

After adding again the script I found that I regained my traffic, but at this point (3 days later I still don`t have my normal traffic)

Not sure if this make sense but it looks like if you stop using GA you stop ranking well, what are your thoughts?

In my update i didn`t change any content on my site...

Thanks
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  • Victor Castillejos: Hello,

    Me again, with a dumb question...

    Last week I got an email saying that Visual Composer had a vulnerability, after this email I decided to update the plugin and to update a few plugins I use.  ;Everything went ok, and 1 hour later I was done with my update, with this update I erased the Google Analytics script, I did check my stats a few days later and I found that I was not getting the same amount of traffic, I didn't do anything as  ;thought this was normal, but after 2 more days I got the 0 visits mark, of course I was getting less and lees traffic as I didn't have the GA script...

    After adding again the script I found that I regained my traffic, but at this point (3 days later I still don't have my normal traffic)

    Not sure if this make sense but it looks like if you stop using GA you stop ranking well, what are your thoughts?

    In my update i didn't change any content on my site...

    Thanks
  • Jim Munro: Hi Victor, it could be that the update might have removed double-instances of GA code or that you have not replaced all of the missing instances.

    I don't think there's any possibility that ranking is linked to GA in any way. ;

    Another possibilty is that one of the updated plugins is limiting access by googlebot or restricting indexing.

    I would spend time using "fetch as googlebot" after first making sure that GA is on every page you want it to be.

    You might find this Chrome extension useful: ;https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tag-assistant-by-google/kejbdjndbnbjgmefkgdddjlbokphdefk
  • Victor Castillejos: +Jim Munro thank you, I am going to do some checks

View original question in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 10/15/2015).