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I’ve experienced a drastic drop in my website’s performance that I haven’t been able to stop. This is causing me a lot of stress.

I’ll give you a brief summary, as much as I can.

I’ve been running this website for four years, dedicating hours and hours to it every single day. Then suddenly, around January 10th, boom — the site collapsed. I went from about 220 clicks per day, to 80, and now down to fewer than 20.

For some queries I’ve completely disappeared. For others, I dropped from position 1, 2, or 3 to beyond position 15. These are low-competition queries where I used to rank easily in the top 3. I was basically one of the strongest sites in my niche — and now it feels like Google hates me.

At first, I blamed several factors:

  1. I removed around 1,000 images over three days due to copyright issues.
  2. I added a paragraph at the very top of the pages stating that, with the help of AI, I had retouched the main image (photos of historical figures). That paragraph was literally the first sentence on the page.
  3. I experienced aggressive bot attacks.

In the past few days, I’ve fixed everything. I’ve also tried to improve the site (homepage, About Us), added an author to the pages (because I suspected my content might fall under YMYL), but nothing. Absolutely nothing.

I’ve even updated some older content that had been ranking in the top positions — still nothing. I honestly don’t know what else to do. I’m really experiencing an overwhelming amount of frustration.

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