I have no idea how to edit the title of my previous post, so I write this one as updated. I'll try to describe my question in detail again. Yes, all the tag hierarchy issues, Google's core vital tests, etc, all affect my position in Google results. But, my site is not so awful and the traffic can't drop by 60% just because of a few small issues which are recommended by Google but not obligated. This is not normal when my post from 2nd place suddenly goes down to the 25th and the 1st place occupies the post with the same rewritten text published less than 2 months ago (I think they wrote it based on my post) just because thier post clogged all social networks. By the way, the post on the 1st place has more small SEO issue than my site. Ok, somebody worte the better content, but all my posts went down in search results and some of them even desappeared from search results. And it can't be just because I had the same word twice in the title or because I frequently place h3 tag, then h4 and then again h3. Besides, my site has a very accurate ad banner placement, they don't pop up in the less expected place, don't appear after each written line and my post is not clogged with widgets from all social networks. Yes, I know, Google decides, and they don't pay attention to blinking banners excess and widgets. My doubt is related to the use of GPT, wrong keywords, and non-EEAT content. And maybe some technical issues, such as the removal of author-bio and comment sections from the .PHP files of the theme. After I discovered and fixed the sitemap issue, I decided to improve the site's SEO and this is where I could make a mistake. Maybe those light text modifications I did to a decent amount of posts, affected their ranking words. Maybe it is because I used GPT and Google Translator to check grammar and text structure and replaced part of the content, but I never did blind copy-paste, I think posts are informative enough. Maybe I am wrong, and this is what I want to know. Could somebody check some of my posts and give an opinion according to the following points: Google EEAT quality (on your opinion): Revelant used keywords: Title, URL, meta description, and SEO title: https://mexicanroutes.com/how-often-are-earthquakes-in-mexico/ https://mexicanroutes.com/how-much-does-it-cost-to-live-in-mexico-city/ https://mexicanroutes.com/who-owns-mexican-archaeological-sites-and-pyramids/ https://mexicanroutes.com/volcanic-activity-in-the-valley-of-mexico/ https://mexicanroutes.com/the-rustic-charm-of-a-mexican-hacienda/ https://mexicanroutes.com/is-it-safe-to-swim-in-cenotes-in-mexico/ https://mexicanroutes.com/digital-nomads-in-mexico/ https://mexicanroutes.com/are-there-sharks-in-the-riviera-maya/ These posts were improved or created with the help of GPT, could it be the reason for zero organic traffic? Where I must focus? On optimization to pass the Google core vital test? On content improvement? Not to use GPT and rewrite all posts created with AI help? Another question, I use "toggles" to expand the post content. Could it affect crawlers? The content doesn't load on clicking the "toggle", it is already there, and checking the "page source" I can see it, so "toggles" couldn't be the problem, besides, I always used them on my site.
I tried to search by exact title and it seems the posts appear in Google top 20, even more recent posts. It means the content is ok, and there is no problem with AI-help. I tried these queries: foodie destinations in Mexico Mexican architecture and design How often are earthquakes in Mexico? Things to do in Hermosillo This means, my site is not under any filter or penalty. This also means Google shows AI-generated posts because all these 3 posts are 90% created by AI within the last 2 weeks. Ok, I understand these are not so popular queries, but anyway, this is a good sign. Maybe the 2nd drop is due to my continuous modification of the same posts, which can't get their positions because I make rewrite after rewrite. So, I think I just use non-relevant keywords or use too many similar keywords, or maybe should create longer posts. Anyway, I am doing something wrong, because I added more than 100 posts since January, and no post got organic traffic. I also checked sites that occupy first positions which previously were mine, and they all passed the Google core vital test and clogged all social networks with the same text and sharing. And they have more SEO issues than my site: duplicated titles, wrong H tags, etc. I think the best tactics is optimize the site for Google core vital test and to clog all social networks with parts of the content from my posts.