B
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20%
20% -- organic traffic loss for website after pausing SEO for 6 months (2023)
Websites that pause SEO lose 20% to 40% of their organic traffic by month 6.
- Reported as part of a range: 20–40%
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20%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2023
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Evidence Quality
B
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75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
DASH-SEO
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Tier B
https://dash-seo.com/insights/is-seo-a-one-time-thing/ ↗
Source Article
Is SEO a One-Time Thing? - DASH-SEO
Serving clients across the U.S., Canada, U.K. & Australia
SEO
Why "Set It and Forget It" Doesn't Work
We hear some version of this question at least once a week: "Can't we just hire someone to do our SEO, get it set up right, and then we're good?"
It's a reasonable question. If you hire an electrici…
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DASH-SEO
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website after pausing SEO for 6 months: 20% organic traffic loss. Source: DASH-SEO (2023). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/seo-decay-month-6
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