Organic Google sessions dropped off a cliff after theme change

[fotobydan]

Hi.

I recently changed my store theme and have noticed that referrals from Google organic have dropped off a cliff.

My page speed is marginally faster since the update and my collection URL's have remained the same.

Is there any insight from the experts here that might help me on my way to regaining those lost Google sessions?

My store is here; https://shop.snapemaltings.co.uk/

Thanks,

Dan

[flareAI]

Hello @fotobydan,

Greetings from flareAI app helping Shopify merchants get $6Million+ in sales from Google Search, on autopilot! I am Gina, and I am here to help.

When you change your theme, you are essentially starting from scratch when it comes to SEO. Your old theme may have been well-optimized for search engines, but your new theme may not be. This can lead to a decline in organic traffic.

-> Check if your new theme is optimized for search engines.

-> Check if your new theme is mobile-friendly.

-> Make sure that your new theme is free of any errors or problems.

-> Verify that the URLs for your website's pages haven't changed significantly with the theme switch.

-> Check the loading speed of your new theme. A slow-loading website can negatively impact your search rankings.

I hope this information proves useful.

Gina

[KieranR]

I would suggest looking at: 

1. Which specific pages dropped the most in GA / GSC
2. What changed on those pages? Title, H1, Subheadings, Onpage heading structure, onpage text content displayed. Schema per page.
3. In GSC what keywords changed the most for each of those pages. Does that corelate with the changes to 2? 
4. I assume none of the URLs changed much? If they did consider changing back.

If there's anything obvious content-wise that the theme change affected, work towards undoing those specific changes, or re-introducing the naming/content that was previously working well. 

Hopefully you have the old theme still available to be switched to for an hour or so, this can give you a simple way to check the differences before/after (2) to help to get clues if there is anything obvious that changed.