Hi Dennis,

I checked that that 302 has not been in place for some time, as it was related to the site below, which was the user of the IP address before we changed hosting providers when we had the data center crisis:

Code:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1244 Nov 17 05:53 armazem239.com.br.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2256 Nov 17 05:53 armazem239.com.br-le-ssl.conf

According to Google Search Console, the site began having problems around mid March; and from end of March / early April until now we have lost a lot of organic Google referral traffic.



The graph over 16 months shows that, except for the end of year slow down, google search referrals have been steady until mid March when they started on a steady decline which is still going in the wrong direction.

Google announced a Google bug in the first week of April where they said the dropped links from sites; and we were seeming effected by that bug.

I have checked Google Search Console and are site does not report errors or any issues; so maybe over time our index will increase and traffic will back to normal.

Also, sometime in last April, Revive Ad server notified customers that their ad server was subject to SQL injection attacks. We upgrade within a few days of the advisory, but after upgrading, I noticed our ad server had already been compromised and was serving adware invisible to the user. I fixed that problem as soon as I found out.

The "soft 404 errors" seem to be better; but I have requested Google to revalidate and increase crawl rate.

The SQL injection issue is fixed, so I'm guessing in April we got hit by a number of "whammys" all of which have been fixed by either Google or Revive; so my fingers are crossed things will recover slowly.

Also, I plan to move off Revive ad server and to another ad server platform because I've lost confidence in Revive. Currently looking for an alternative.

Cheers.


See also: How Bad Was Google's Deindexing Bug? - Moz

According to many SEO blogs, we are just one of many websites adversely effected by the deindexing bug; and when we combine that with the Revive bug, it was a very rough month for us in April.