When is a site unsavable? When should you dump it?
 

Hey everyone,

So over the past year my website has been doing pretty well, the previous year was even better.. but then January 2017 came.

Since January one of my websites has essentially vanished into thin air. It went from around 2K hits a day down to around 250 and that's if I promote it on twitter. The website itself has been around for 4 - 5 years now. I'm wondering if it's totally fucked in the shitter and I should abandon it.

Previously I had over 150,000 links to my website. Now I have only 9000 and 7000 or so are from my other website. I don't know if google has devalued almost everything that was previously pointing to my site or if they all closed down or what. My other website is similar, it had over 350,000 links to it but now also in the low 1000's.

I've used a number of google penalty / ban checkers and they all say I am fine, no penalties and no bans. No messages in the search console either.

http://i.imgur.com/JhjH3fH.jpg

The above picture is from the google search console. This is the clicks. I have no idea what happened but something caused it to flatline... again, it's not banned or any penalties at all. I have no fucking idea what happened.

Is this even recoverable? Is it beyond totally fucked? Should I shut down this site and start a new one fresh and that will have far better chances since it's new vs this old one that appears to be poisoned?

What would you do in this situation? Any tips?

Below is a disgusting picture of my analtics for this site.
http://i.imgur.com/QNcPifF.jpg

Thanks you guys, you're the best.

- DumpManager

Run this tools : https://barracuda.digital/panguin-seo-tool/

from screens is look you get multiple google updates penalty - remove spam links, check duplicate content, remove some ads etc.

Thanks for the tool, I'm looking at it right now but I have no penalties at all.
No panda no penguin or anything. I have a feeling it's more to do with the changes made after Trump won to crack down on "fake news".

I was in my search console again and noticed I am still getting some clicks from the www version, I have www and non-www in the search console and I forgot to check the other. Anyways, it's only slightly better but it hasn't flatlined.

As for removing spam links google has already removed almost all links to all of my websites.. no idea why though..

I am considering completely deleting everything on current domain and starting again from scratch / square one. Is that a smart idea or has this domain been tainted somehow, and if so would starting fresh with a new domain / new brand work or would it be better to try and fix this 4-5 year old domain?

Thanks again,

DumpManager

I would recommend you to start a new website asap, but in the meantime keep the original website on air and try tonsee if it can be "saved".

Sorry by I see some periods look like a algorithm change penalty - for example last period and around April on the image start.

do redirection from www to nowww or other way, chose version you like - setup a 301 redirection for this. rewrite urls inside content etc.

Old domains have always value. BTW we talking about domains from your signature? - look on the script - maybe a website script is a problem. tnx.