Traffic fell and nobody can tell you why? Send us your site. A strategist checks your history against Google's published update dates, reviews the manual action signals, and sends back a plain-English answer: what caused the drop, which pages carry it, and what the fix path is.
Get My Free CheckThe same six checks a strategist runs on a client whose traffic fell, done on your site, with the answer in plain English.
Your Search Console history lined up against Google's published rollout dates, so the drop gets a date and a candidate cause.
Whether the signals point to a manual action, the one kind of drop with a formal fix, or to an algorithmic change with no notice.
A step or a slope, head terms gone or positions slipping: the shape that separates a spam update hit from a core update dip.
Whether the affected pages are still indexed, and when Google last fetched them, because a fix cannot count before the next crawl.
Whether rankings held while clicks moved into AI answers you are not cited in, the loss classic rank tracking cannot see.
What the cause means for recovery, the order to do it in, and how long each kind realistically takes.
A written diagnosis from a strategist, not an automated score. It is the first step of our Google penalty and core update recovery service, done for you, free, so you know which problem you have before you decide anything.
Want to run the check yourself first? The method, with Google's update dates, is in our algorithm updates guide, and the penalty-or-algorithm test is in the penalty recovery guide.
Tell us your website and, if you know it, roughly when things changed. A strategist checks it against Google's update dates and sends back the cause and the fix path within one business day.
Recovery diagnosis uses the instrumentation we use for growth. On AgentZap, that meant tracking organic clicks from 42 to 2,577 a month in Search Console, ranking keywords from 192 to 7,964, and a new AI assistant channel reaching 489 sessions a month from zero in GA4. When a site has lost visibility, the same dated, source-level tracking is what shows the cause. Every figure is from the client's own Search Console and GA4.
Read the full AgentZap case study →Yes. The check is free and comes with no obligation. A strategist runs it, writes up what they found, and sends it back. If recovery work is warranted we say so and scope it separately, but the diagnosis is yours to act on either way.
Your website URL and the best email to reach you. Roughly when you noticed the drop, and anything you changed around then, helps us get to the answer faster, but the URL and email are enough to start.
We line up the date your traffic changed against the start and completion dates Google publishes for every core and spam update, look at the shape of the loss page by page, and review the signals that point to a manual action. When it was not an update, we say so and tell you what it was instead.
Not for the first pass. We work from what is publicly visible plus what you tell us. If the check shows recovery work is worth doing, we ask for read-only Search Console access at that point, so the diagnosis can be confirmed against your own data before anything is scoped.
Then you find that out, which is just as useful. The other common causes are a technical fault such as a stray noindex tag or a broken redirect, a competitor moving ahead, seasonality, and clicks moving into AI Overviews while rankings hold. The check names which one and what to do about it.
You get the written diagnosis within one business day. If it points to something you can fix yourself, you have what you need. If it points to recovery work, we explain what that would involve and you decide. Nothing is scoped without your say.