Sometimes we do everything in our power to improve our blogs, but it seems that there is something we do not see and it boycotts our intentions, it sounds mysterious, right? Well, it is not at all.
Sometimes it is more normal things than we think and they can be on our blog there touching our morale for a long time if we do not remedy it, while these silent enemies work our blog is harmed.
These 5 enemies of your blog are an example, there are hundreds, but these are the ones that occupy the No. 1 list of errors and omissions that happen to us and we do not find out because they are invisible to our eyes, damaging our positioning in a very serious way.
There is no rule that says when these silent enemies will appear, sometimes they are latent and are not a problem until your blog begins to give results, this is told to me by many people who reach a good rhythm and suddenly something happens that makes them go to your blog downhill, it is very difficult to identify them and for example the first and the fourth are usually discovered when you have tried everything possible without result and your SEO does not improve.
# 1 Server speed down (CPU Throttling).
It is a concept inherited from computing but in the case of blogs we refer to the maneuver that a shared hosting server performs to prevent a blog from hoarding more resources, vulgarly I would call it cutting off the tap. The result is that the response time is slower, therefore the loading speed suffers a lot, your visitors despair and Google drops your page from the top positions because it is a turtle.
This occurs when your blog begins to have many visits, downloadable or heavy elements such as huge photos, infographics, videos… There are many solutions to this problem, those that refer to the files I deal with in this post: The bikini operation of your blog and then there is a magic solution which is to hire a VPS a dedicated server and organize your space to your liking.
Not all vendors make Throttling CPUs but it is very common in the cheaper ones.
2 # A Google penalty
One of the silent enemies of your blog is the penalty, avoid practices that may cause you to be penalized, but above all watch your blog, to know first-hand if Google has penalized you, the ideal is to go to Search console (formerly webmasters tools) and see if you have been notified that there is a penalty, try to really solve it and ask for the review… it is a very tedious process but it is what it is.
Another thing that happens is that the penalty is partial so they will not notify you but you are doing something that Google does not like and it makes you lose positions, apart from how do I know what I have done wrong? I have to talk at length about this in another post.
3 # They link me to low quality sites.
This is the equivalent of making voodoo to a blog, linking it to pages of low Domain Authority and that have nothing to do with the subject, we do this very well alone when we let any ripper not leave a comment like: ” Hello, very good post, you can visit my blog: gallinascalientes.com, thank you ”and others come via spamboots, so I always recommend identifying them in Google analytics and cutting off the path either through the HTTACESS file (careful…) or with a wonderful security plugin like the ones I recommended in this post:
# 4 Plugins that kill each other behind your back
Of the 5 enemies of your blog, it is one of the most frequent and one of the worst.
This is a problem that everyone has when we start working with WordPress we install plugins because there are plugins for everything, there are some that are essential but there are others that we install and if we remove them nothing happens, it is also convenient to update them often and put them on is cool but remember to take them for a while…
Many plugins are incompatible with each other and can create serious conflicts in the performance of your blog and its operation, which can be serious for SEO, apart from being able to cause LPBDLM .
There are plugins like cache plugins that can cancel the sitemap in combination with another, imagine how serious that is.
# 5 malicious software, spamboots, redirects, browser hijackers…
This is a very dangerous enemy that you have to flee from, become a focus of spam, when your page redirects to others or shows different or inappropriate content, so watch out for these kinds of problems and don’t let them pass for a day.
Normally the security plugins are quite complete, but sometimes you have to take other more professional solutions, there are times that it can take months to realize that you have a spammer blog.
I hope it helps you to know that many things for which your blog loses position are for reasons beyond our control, some of these factors are almost impossible to detect if you do not have a routine for measuring results.
