Nathan

Yes, they've had a major update around the end of March that major penalized some of my sites and took impressions and clicks down to 0. About a month later around the end of April my sites recovered and traffic picked back up again: The Google March 2025 Core Update was a broad algorithm update that rolled out from March 13th to March 27th, 2025. This update, like other core updates, aimed to improve the overall quality of Google's search results by better surfacing helpful, relevant, and satisfying content. It wasn't designed to target specific websites but rather to boost pages that were previously under-rewarded. Then around May 20th it happened again and almost 0 traffic since then. A significant Google SEO update, often referred to as the May 2025 Core Update, focused on improving content quality and relevance. This update, rolled out in early May, likely emphasized rewarding high-quality, in-depth content while penalizing AI-generated fluff and thin content. It also prioritized user intent and mobile-first performance.

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Yes it means the Stripe gateway is only available for USA IP addresses. Just include other country codes, you can find them here: https://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/country_code_list.htm

Semalt is a great tool for this, pricing is also reasonable.

Interested on what existing stuff it will break 😀

There is not PHP 8 yet? We're at PHP 7.4 as of today unless I'm not aware of some beta?

After working with this more anything over 500 is really needed. Greater than 2k words becomes cornerstone content.

We haven't gotten into the TikTok game yet, eager to hear any responses.

You can accomplish this in a week if you know what your doing with social & link building. Even quicker if you have an advertising budget. We just launched a site that has ~700 view a day after 7 days. https://osgamers.com/

Yikes! Looks like you changed some of your H1 or other tags that were better optimized before. Hope you took a backup to revert the changes

There must be a reason at this point if it's not receiving traffic. The content is not valuable to the end users and or the search engines to rank it high enough to get traffic. Need more thoughtful and meaningful content.

Can't you do this with the Google Adwords tools? You can lookup keywords in search and what their competition and number of search are.

SEMRush for sure, but it's expensive for a single site license.

For page speed tests I always run these: https://www.alexa.com/ https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/ https://tools.pingdom.com/ https://gtmetrix.com/ https://www.webpagetest.org/

Knowledge/technology to build things like Ironman