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So get ready to blog like a pro and make your traffic explode with your host, whose blog gets more than one million visitors every single month, Brandon Galey.

My name's Brandon Galey and welcome to episode 192 of the blog millionaire.

I think we can all agree that losing Google rankings is something that

hurts and demotivates all of us. Every blogger is able to notice when a Google algorithm update

hits their blog. All of your traffic instantly drops. This is the type of ranking loss that no one misses. Unfortunately, for most

Google updates, there's very little you can do about it to fix it. Then there is the subtle loss

of Google rankings that go unnoticed. These subtle moves actually account for way more traffic

loss than any one-time Google algorithm gut punch.

And these losses can be prevented and retained before they're lost for good.

Once you have over 100 blog posts, it is close to impossible to manually keep track of all of their rankings.

Even if you do, you may not raise an eyebrow to three or four long-tailed phrases

that went from number seven to number eight in the past 30 days.

That is why these type of losses kill a blog slowly.

After a year has gone by, a single post with small diminishing rankings can lose half of its traffic.

If it isn't identified soon enough, then it may breach the point of return in regards to regaining those lost rankings.

To state this bluntly, every single blog post you have is constantly under attack by your competition.

If you have 100 blog posts, then you have 100 separate battles going on all year long.

You might have a blog post that has 15 best gardening tips and a competitor publishes a

post with 21 gardening tips, which jumps over you in the rankings just because people

tend to click on the post title with the highest number. Or you may have a post from four years ago

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