Things are pretty bad with Google in this department. Over the last two years they have been constantly updating and changing their algorithm, there are now updates such as Core, Product Reviews, Helpful, Spam, Link Spam and God knows what else. And they are rotating them 24/7. Literally.
You could be up 20% one day and down 40% the next and you are none the wiser as to why.
If you are a small time publisher with no budget or no craftiness to attract links from other sites - you are pretty much doomed.
I have a few sites that are in the 200k monthly visits range (from Google) and Google only fetches the homepage/feed every four hours or so, sometimes it takes longer than that. It’s a lot different from what it used to be.
You could be up 20% one day and down 40% the next and you are none the wiser as to why.
If you are a small time publisher with no budget or no craftiness to attract links from other sites - you are pretty much doomed.
I have a few sites that are in the 200k monthly visits range (from Google) and Google only fetches the homepage/feed every four hours or so, sometimes it takes longer than that. It’s a lot different from what it used to be.