Despite doing weekly updates, adding new content, making sure everything was accurate, even keeping up with the latest trends... Not one but BOTH of my blogs lost 90% of their traffic.

I am just wondering if this can be saved? Can I regain the lost traffic or is there no hope once it is gone? I have heard of other sites having this happen and never recovering from it.

Yes it is possible. It takes a lot of time though. Most people say a good 3 to 9 months. You have to go through everything manually. Remove anything low-quality or outdated. Find and remove duplicate pages. Focus on high-interest posts that previously saw the most traffic.

22 hours ago, amberb94 said:

Yes it is possible. It takes a lot of time though. Most people say a good 3 to 9 months. You have to go through everything manually. Remove anything low-quality or outdated. Find and remove duplicate pages. Focus on high-interest posts that previously saw the most traffic.

This is correct. I have seen people do it and it works. It is not guaranteed to work but if you feel your blogs are worth saving, then put in the time. I have tried this before a number of years ago and couldn't get it to work out for mine. I gave it a year and a half and just stopped bothering with the blog entirely. Eventually I just shut it down.

I would say you can but I think that it probably only works maybe 20% of the time. Some people will tell you it is easier to rank back up from scratch. So taking all your content, redoing it, and reposting it on a new website with a fresh face instead of doing this on the current domain.

I am going to guess you did nothing wrong. Google has made statements about their changes impacting a lot of websites, especially blogs. If you have an e-mail list, start there and make use of it. You can attempt to sell an e-book in your niche and offer bits and pieces of it for free to subscribers and readers.

In my experience and from what I have gathered, it really comes down to the niche and the content involved. The more useful the better. So like a blog that is dedicated to answering questions will be easier to fix than one that is just about travel for example.

On 7/29/2026 at 9:45 AM, donnie said:

In my experience and from what I have gathered, it really comes down to the niche and the content involved. The more useful the better. So like a blog that is dedicated to answering questions will be easier to fix than one that is just about travel for example.

This probably plays a role too.

Certain niches already perform better than others and since that is the case, some have a greater probability of rebounding lost traffic. I wish I knew what killed my old blog but I never figured it out and gave up with it 4 years ago.