Skip to main content

Google Indexed my form attachments and traffic tanked - Suggestions?

I have about a 140 page local business website that gets around 6000 organic visitors per month. I notice traffic tanked late May (consistent with May update).

In GSC, I noticed that around 300 "indexed, not submitted in sitemap" URL's were indexed in late May. Upon further inspection, they were all Formidable form attachments (mostly PDF's) and a lot of them were spammy form submissions (some were legitimate). We now have over 500 URL's indexed and most of them are nonsense PDF's. I'm guessing this had a lot to do with the drop in traffic.

They are all coming from one form, in our "uploads" folder and there's no immediate way to noindex form submission attachments manually or using Yoast.

What would you guys suggest I do? I'm toying with the idea of just using Cpanel to manually delete the 300 form attachments and waiting for Google to realize they are gone.

Thanks, any suggestions would be appreciated!

submitted by /u/bigjerm616
[link] [comments]

from Search Engine Optimization: The Latest SEO News https://ift.tt/osTbPCL
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Local seo vs. natiowide seo?

I've done SEO for local businesses but I recently got my first client that sells an item nation wide. ​ Any suggestions for doing nationwide SEO? ​ I am used to making geopages for local towns. I was going to do the same with some input from the client about what cities or towns he would like to show up in? submitted by /u/Letmeinterviewyou [link] [comments] from Search Engine Optimization: The Latest SEO News http://bit.ly/2JHy0k0
Post a Comment
Read more

Clients site has a weird issue with 302 redirects that I haven't seen before.

Site is in Drupal, hosted on Amazon CDN & Cloudflare. So here's a quick breakdown: The site itself works normally. It's a bit dated, but you can click on links and navigate around as you'd expect. Seeing no obvious issues, I run a Screaming Frog crawl to begin my audit. Only 5 pages were picked up by the crawl which was super weird, since all internal links are regular html and there shouldn't be any issues. So I go through the site and manually collect a bunch of URLs, which I submit to SF again as a list. Every single link bar the 5 originally crawled return a 302, with the 'redirect' pointing back to the home page. Except as I said, those pages don't browser redirect. Browser side, they work fine. I guess they redirect the crawl bot though, since the rest of the site is functionally invisible. Other tools I've looked at say that the pages return simultaneous 302 and 200s, which doesn't make too much sense. These 302s are also old enough ...
Post a Comment
Read more