: Visitors throttled after Adsense Policy Violation? I received a couple of notices for two pages regarding policy violations from AdSense. It was for copyrighted material, I had two pages listing

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I received a couple of notices for two pages regarding policy violations from AdSense.

It was for copyrighted material, I had two pages listing embedded videos from YouTube (ironic, it was them hosting it).

I removed the embeds and links as suggested by them but kept the content as it was generating traffic. The notices have been removed and they are serving ads on those pages, so it looks like they're over it probably. (It's been over a month now).

Since that time my organic traffic which was mainly through Google has been reduced by around 45% e.g. used to get 3000 visitors now only 1400-1600 per day.

I have checked a few of my top keywords that used to rank me on the first pages, and they still do so no problem there.

Not quite sure how to diagnose this? Should I get rid of those pages completely and redirect to another page?

I added a CDN to see if loading was causing a problem but nothing has changed.

I just can't figure out what it could be? Do you think I need to to disavow links? Or something else? I'm trying to diagnose why the drop of traffic through Google organically.

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