Why Is My Site Not Getting Organic Traffic?

There are many reasons that your website may not be receiving organic traffic. Organic traffic is a crucial, cost-effective way to generate qualified leads for your business, often outperforming paid traffic in ROI. Below are some tips to help you identify and address potential issues affecting your organic traffic.

Recent website changes & algorithm updates

It is crucial to constantly check that your website follows best practices and industry trends. If your entire website is being rebuilt, there will be a lot of structure changes and pages that need to be redirected. This could temporarily cause a drop in organic traffic and it may take a few months to recover – even up to a year depending on how many pages were redirected and the changes on the backend. 

Individual page changes may also cause a dip in organic traffic because it takes Google some time to reindex those pages. Don’t let positive changes and a temporary dip in organic traffic stop you from keeping your website up to date. Even if you haven’t changed any pages or added any new content, a Google Algorthium update could change how your pages rank and may change the amount of organic traffic.

Poor (or lack of) a content strategy

The best way to receive organic traffic is to constantly refresh the content on your website. If your website doesn’t already have a blog, that should be a goal for 2025. Blogging is the best way to speak directly to your target audience with very niche content. The goal is to answer their specific question when they searching  so you may assist in solving their problem. Blogs are a great way to expand on very niche topics and focus on keywords. Keeping a monthly cadence of blog posts can improve your organic traffic over time and occasionally, a blog post can become a huge source of traffic to your website if it ranks on Google well.

It is important to keep in mind the type of content you are adding to your website. Adding primarily AI-written articles is not the best way to increase your organic traffic and it may penalize your efforts. AI-written content may have errors, either grammatical or incorrect information that doesn’t relate to your company specifically.

Poor Search Engine Optimization

It is imperative to have a web presence in some capacity, especially a robust website that follows the best SEO practices. Potential customers expect you to have a website and that the website is helpful for solving their problems. As attention spans decrease, it is more important than ever to have an optimized site that ranks on the first page of a Google search result.

How can I improve my SEO effort?

There are many contributing factors to poor SEO ranging from the lack of the right keywords, slow page load times, or just pages with thin, irrelevant content. All of these factors need to be solved together to have the best SEO on your website. There are many tools that can assist with this such as SEMRush, Google Search Console, or hiring an SEO consultant.

There are technical SEO issues that may also need to be addressed by a webmaster such as indexing problems, broken links, or robots.txt issues. 

Are you still concerned about the organic traffic on your website and potential SEO issues? We offer a free comprehensive site analysis – contact us to review your site in real-time.