Read First: Assistance with Web Stories Traffic Issues

Welcome to the Web Stories forum! Our forum support focuses on using and troubleshooting issues with the Web Stories for WordPress plugin. Specific questions about traffic declines, ranking, crawling, and indexing are best answered by the experts at Google SEO and Analytics Help Communities.

Note that changes in Web Stories traffic are not unusual and can rely on many factors. For example, content featured on Google Discover regularly changes, and Google Search constantly improves its algorithms, which can affect ranking. Using the AMP validation tool and the Web Stories editor’s built-in pre-publish checklist for any newly published stories is a good practice to ensure your story is eligible to appear on Google services.

If you’re not sure whether a change in traffic is caused by a change to your site, we recommend using Search Console’s various tools to confirm that your content is properly crawled and indexed.