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Topical authority

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The creator attributes HubSpot's traffic decline to broad, unrelated content and says topical authority has become more important.

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The creator attributes HubSpot's traffic decline to broad, unrelated content and says topical authority has become more important.

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This topic currently has 1 source records, 1 public insight cards, and 1 creators in the public Base2026 export.

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The creator attributes HubSpot's traffic decline to broad, unrelated content and says topical authority has become more important.

@build_in_public · asserts

This is the all time SEO traffic for HubSpot. It hit its peak in January 2023 and then just rapidly declined. The leading theory is that HubSpot wasted a lot of resources targeting keywords that didn't matter to them. As Google's algorithms got better, Google cut the articles that were unrelated to HubSpot...

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HubSpot has lost a ridiculous amount of organic Google search traffic. The leading theory...

@build_in_public · 2025-07-25

This is the all time SEO traffic for HubSpot. It hit its peak in January 2023 and then just rapidly declined. The leading theory is that HubSpot wasted a lot of resources targeting keywords that didn't matter to them. As Google's algorithms got better, Google cut the articles that were unrelated to HubSpot...

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This is the all time SEO traffic for HubSpot. It hit its peak in January 2023 and then just rapidly declined.

The leading theory is that HubSpot wasted a lot of resources targeting keywords that didn't matter to them. As Google's algorithms got better, Google cut the articles that were unrelated to HubSpot.

Unfortunately, it hit a lot of their other content. Niching down and topical authority has become extremely prioritised in search engine optimisation.

This is the result of not taking it seriously. I go in depth on avoiding these drops in my SEO course at compactkeywords.com.