@DavidStathamoffApr 11.2017 — #Its called Fred update. Google has updated it's ranking algorithm and now it is penalizing websites which are getting failed to match up to it's new standards.Your website is not the only one whose ranking has succumbed to this new update by google, I saw many others in different online platforms who are concerned about the same issue. It is said that this new filtering process of google is content oriented.
This past month, we had a fairly significant Google algorithm ranking update on February 7th which Google did not confirm so we suspect it was a Phantom update. Then shortly after, Google penalized Natural News and they were back in the index a few days later after a ton of controversy. Google Image search in Germany, France, and some other countries changed resulting in the appearance of traffic loss.