traffic-drop-diagnosis SKILL.md skillA

traffic-drop-diagnosis from seoo-tools/seoo-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add seoo-tools/seoo-skills/traffic-drop-diagnosis@git:20261001.a762959

Pins git:20261001.a762959 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
seoo-tools/seoo-skills
Path
skills/traffic-drop-diagnosis/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
git:20261001.a762959, committed Oct 1, 2026
Size
8,533 bytes
Repository stars
11
License
MIT

Diagnose a fall in search traffic or clicks: is it real, how big, when exactly, broad or narrow, own-site or external cause, and whether to act, wait or investigate. Use when a user says "my traffic dropped," "did an update hit me," "is this a tracking issue," "why did clicks fall," or "what should I do right now." Not a routine monitoring setup (seo-health-monitoring), not a fix list, and not a migration plan; it ends in a diagnosis and a decision.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Traffic Drop Diagnosis

Turns "traffic fell" into a ranked, evidence-backed diagnosis and an act / wait / investigate decision, before any page is edited. This is the full workflow behind the broad-vs-narrow fork in `seo-growth-stage-strategy` Step 3. Stage gate: apply that skill first; real emergencies (technical break, security issue, manual action) bypass it.

---

## Step 0 — Ask before assuming

1. **When did it start**; a one-day step or a slope over weeks?
2. **Which metric and source** — Search Console clicks, analytics sessions, Bing? Did clicks fall, or only impressions?
3. **How big**, versus which comparison period?
4. **What changed on the site** — deploys, redesign, migration, CMS or plugin updates, robots/noindex, redirects, bulk content, tracking or consent?
5. **Anything else** — an alert, a Search Console message, a rumored update, a server incident?

Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools are free and need ownership verification. They are worth connecting, but never block on it: without them, work from analytics, server logs and live checks at reduced precision, and say so. If a search or analytics MCP or a CSV export is available, use it.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add seoo-tools/seoo-skills/traffic-drop-diagnosis@sha256:191701bf39654baa

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261001.a762959, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_vbab4feonvvqfz2v.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_vbab4feonvvqfz2v)

2 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 1, 2026.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261001.a762959 latest2026-10-01 a762959 8,533 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (8533 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

seoo-tools/seoo-skills · 11 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-01 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_vbab4feonvvqfz2v
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=seoo-tools/seoo-skills/traffic-drop-diagnosis
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/191701bf39654baafaee920b9c6d0095ccb4110f5e6c38e7ce61ac19a5d14670

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.

More from seoo-tools/seoo-skills

backlink-profile-audit SKILL.md skill
seoo-tools/seoo-skills · skills/backlink-profile-audit/SKILL.md · Audit a site's backlink profile for toxic-link risk and genuine link-building opportunity. Use when auditing off-page…
git:20261001.a762959 · audit A · 11 stars
change-and-decision-log SKILL.md skill
seoo-tools/seoo-skills · skills/change-and-decision-log/SKILL.md · Set up or audit the habit of writing down what changed, why a real judgment call was made, and when to come back and…
git:20261001.a762959 · audit A · 11 stars
content-creation-standards SKILL.md skill
seoo-tools/seoo-skills · skills/content-creation-standards/SKILL.md · Apply this pack's standards *while creating* new content, not just when auditing existing content. Use whenever a user…
git:20261001.a762959 · audit A · 11 stars
content-freshness-audit SKILL.md skill
seoo-tools/seoo-skills · skills/content-freshness-audit/SKILL.md · Audit whether a site has a real mechanism for knowing which published facts are due for re-checking, or whether "keep…
git:20261001.a762959 · audit A · 11 stars
content-opportunity-discovery SKILL.md skill
seoo-tools/seoo-skills · skills/content-opportunity-discovery/SKILL.md · Systematically identify the highest-probability next pieces of content to build, using Search Console near-miss data…
git:20261001.a762959 · audit A · 11 stars
ctr-snippet-optimization SKILL.md skill
seoo-tools/seoo-skills · skills/ctr-snippet-optimization/SKILL.md · Improve click-through on pages that already rank, via titles, meta descriptions and snippet-level elements, safely and…
git:20261001.a762959 · audit A · 11 stars
duplicate-intent-audit SKILL.md skill
seoo-tools/seoo-skills · skills/duplicate-intent-audit/SKILL.md · Detect pages that serve the same search intent as another page, even when their wording is different — the pattern…
git:20261001.a762959 · audit A · 11 stars
indexing-crawl-health-audit SKILL.md skill
seoo-tools/seoo-skills · skills/indexing-crawl-health-audit/SKILL.md · Diagnose why pages are not indexed or crawled properly: triage Search Console and Bing page-indexing statuses, check…
git:20261001.a762959 · audit A · 11 stars
internal-linking-audit SKILL.md skill
seoo-tools/seoo-skills · skills/internal-linking-audit/SKILL.md · Audit a site's internal linking structure to find where existing authority isn't being redistributed to pages that…
git:20261001.a762959 · audit A · 11 stars
legal-regulatory-compliance SKILL.md skill
seoo-tools/seoo-skills · skills/legal-regulatory-compliance/SKILL.md · Audit a site for regulatory/legal exposure — practicing-without-a-license risk on professional-advice content…
git:20261001.a762959 · audit A · 11 stars
measurement-discipline SKILL.md skill
seoo-tools/seoo-skills · skills/measurement-discipline/SKILL.md · Audit (or help set up) whether a site can actually tell what caused a ranking/traffic change, or whether it's just…
git:20261001.a762959 · audit A · 11 stars
page-quality-audit SKILL.md skill
seoo-tools/seoo-skills · skills/page-quality-audit/SKILL.md · Audit programmatic/templated content against a concrete E-E-A-T and content-quality bar. Use when auditing any…
git:20261001.a762959 · audit A · 11 stars

Every file in seoo-tools/seoo-skills

Browse by kind, by grade A, or by owner.