Went a bit mad with the pSEO hype a while back and my page got obliterated. Spent a full year in the dead zone - barely a click per day, worst month was 7 clicks total. Avg position tanked to 20-40+. Proper nuke: roughly 93% traffic loss overnight.
Decided to build a little automation tool based on what a colleague shared. Didn't expect much, but over the last 8 weeks numbers are finally moving. Clicks went from single digits to around 40-60 per week. Impressions climbed from a few hundred to over 9k on a good week. Best day hit 14 clicks and over 2,200 impressions - highest ever recorded. Recovery multiplier vs the trough is nearly 30x clicks per day.
Still peanuts compared to big accounts, but for a page that was dead for 12 months, it's a solid comeback. The tool just tidies up structure and internal linking - nothing fancy. CTR sits at 0.6%, average position around 13. Not breaking any records, but the trend is up 31% month-over-month.
Took a full year to see any movement. If someone had told me to just wait it out, I'd have laughed. But the rebuild approach actually worked. Not sharing the exact setup (niche is competitive enough), but happy to confirm that manual scraping + smart interlinking can pull a page back from the dead.
