What is the correct first step when organic traffic drops sharply overnight?
- A Publish more content
- B Check for technical causes such as a stray noindex, robots.txt change or broken migration
- C Buy backlinks
- D Redesign the site
Answer
Check for technical causes such as a stray noindex, robots.txt change or broken migration
Sudden drops are usually technical or a manual action. Algorithmic changes tend to be more gradual and coincide with known update dates.





