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My Google Traffic Has Fallen to Zero

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Re: My Google Traffic Has Fallen to Zero

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Post by weisbaum »

Taking a look at your site, it seems quite clear where all your traffic went. You have a pretty great backlink profile compared to other affiliate sites ive seen but the content is incredibly thin. Based on this, me or anyone else who visits the site just sees an advertising site. There are no personal experiences with the products, the products are not related and the UX does not make the user want to continue exploring the page they landed on. The content here seems more like a statistics site for products than it is a reviews site.

The other comments here mentioning cheap as a flag word are somewhat accurate but not entirely. Its possible to rank a site using the word cheap assuming you're supporting it correctly with related content about a specific product and proper explanation as to what makes it cheap.

Honestly, I am very sorry that you lost all your traffic and your revenue but this seems like a VERY fixable problem considering your backlinks. Take your best performing posts, and dramatically increase the word count, add more photos, add overviews of each product instead of just a single line or two pulled from reviews.

Happy to help with additional pointers if you want to shoot me a PM.

Re: My Google Traffic Has Fallen to Zero

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Post by Triv888 »

geofft wrote: post #140
Triv888 wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've had that problem too, multiple times, where I knew the password but Google wouldn't let me use it (I almost lost my account). Google doesn't like users that clear cookies, block trackers, etc... I wish that there was a way to disable those "protections".

Do you have 2FA enabled? I suspect that if you have either an authenticator app or a security key, it will use that instead of random heuristics. (This isn't a defense of Google's behavior, just a comment on things that are actually within the end user's control.)

I don't want 2FA and I have it disabled but they often ask me for more than my password which is like forcing 2FA on me (but what you say may be true).

Re: My Google Traffic Has Fallen to Zero

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Post by 8note »

bcrl wrote: post #57
Wowfunhappy wrote: post #33

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...isn't showing ads what makes it profitable? Edit: Oh, I see where you're coming from in light of the parent. Well, Google could place ads inside their product without actually running an ad network—that is in fact what most websites on the internet do. This wouldn't necessarily make sense at Google's scale though, so I don't think that's what GP meant. Rather, Google shouldn't be able to own most of the ad network…

Ad networks were separate years ago! Strangely enough they were acquired. Google bought AdSense and Sprinks in 2003, dMark Broadcasting in 2006, AdScape and DoubleClick in 2007, AdMob in 2009, Invite Media in 2010, mDialog in 2014, Red Hot Labs in 2015... I'm sure there are more.

Sounds like theres a good business in making ad networks and selling them to google

Re: My Google Traffic Has Fallen to Zero

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Post by 8note »

bcrl wrote: post #96
AnthonyMouse wrote: post #36

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Being in a more competitive industry generally reduces margins but increases the size of the market. Vertically integrated companies lose to aggressively competitive non-integrated competitors when they exist (and a monopolist is proscribed from buying them all up), because the existence of that competition means they can't be abusive or collect monopoly rents. Vertically integrated monopolies are sticky because you…

I'll give an example of a Canadian vertically integrated monopoly: BCE (Bell Canada Enterprises). BCE grew out of the incumbent phone company (Bell) in most of Ontario and Quebec. Over the years it has used the massive profits from telecom to extends its reach into other sectors of the economy. Over the past 10-15 years, it has made quite a few acquisition of various content producers. Most notably to me was the purc…

Your alternative is YouTube science channels like scishow

Re: My Google Traffic Has Fallen to Zero

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Post by Imnimo »

8note wrote: post #138
Imnimo wrote: post #110

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The point I'm making is that if his business is only possible because of Google, it's silly to ask what his alternatives are. It's not like he'd have a thriving business if only Google didn't exist. Instead, he's reliant on Google choosing to rank his page highly enough to get traffic for search queries that will result in people clicking on his affiliate links (who he's also reliant on). Google doesn't owe him any p…

They're a monopoly, so yes?

What does that have to do with it? If other search engines were more popular, would that change this situation? Maybe there'd be a handful of algorithms to arbitrarily rank him instead of just one, but the dynamic would still be the same. He'd still only be in business as long as their algorithms happened to think his website was slightly more relevant for "cheap portable generators" than other websites.

Re: My Google Traffic Has Fallen to Zero

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Post by superkuh »

KMag wrote: post #39
superkuh wrote: post #23

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Wow. I'm you in both respects. I just had the same problem with my dad and even though he can send and receive email from his gmail account they still won't tell him the password. All he has is the fragile oauth token on mail.app on his apple smart phone that can only connect via wifi due to the loss of the old phone number. Additionally, my mail from my independent mailserver just started being marked as spam by goo…

> they still won't tell him the password The Google support people should have mentioned it, but hopefully, they wouldn't be able to tell him the password without investing tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars in cracking the hash. https://plaintextoffenders.com/

Is google really encrypting each individuals email based on a password they have no knowledge of? I know privacy oriented email hosts have tried to achieve this, but google?

I'd hope the phone tech support understand the goal was to regain access to the account, through a reset or whatever mechanism, and not to just know the password. But maybe if my dad worded it like I did the same confusion could've happened.

Re: My Google Traffic Has Fallen to Zero

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Post by thaumasiotes »

tharkun__ wrote: post #132
Triv888 wrote: post #44

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I've had that problem too, multiple times, where I knew the password but Google wouldn't let me use it (I almost lost my account). Google doesn't like users that clear cookies, block trackers, etc... I wish that there was a way to disable those "protections".

There is a really really simple one (at least for your private life but if your company uses G-Suite, you always have the admin to take care of things you forget): Do not use Google! It's as simple as that. I have never had a Gmail account until an Android device sort of forced it on me, because I definitely didn't want to link things up to my real email address, so I just signed up for the whole thing. Do I ever use…

> Some of this obviously requires 'abstinence' and not having the same 'cool toys' as other people. I.e. if I buy lots of fancy apps that I actually rely on for my daily life, then loosing this Google Account will hurt.

Pleco is a necessity for me, but it's not tied to the Google account. It has its own registration system.

Same goes for WeChat.

The Android Kindle app isn't really a necessity, but it's desirable. It, too, has its own registration system. It's certainly tied to my Amazon account, but not to my Google account.

Re: My Google Traffic Has Fallen to Zero

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Post by [deleted] »

dj_mc_merlin wrote: post #98

I'm really torn over the author's website. On one hand, the design is much less ad-ridden and well-written than other SEO/affiliate link-driven websites.. but I don't see much value from it. * the reviews for products are too short and vague * until you actually read the top part and realize it was written by a human being, it looks exactly the same as all the other affiliate websites that get deranked (probably the…

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Re: My Google Traffic Has Fallen to Zero

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Post by billylindeman »

jjcon wrote: post #30
hsbauauvhabzb wrote: post #8

I’ve had similar experiences with other google products: My mom forgot her gmail password and no longer had the same mobile number for a reset, the secondary reset option was set to my email but would not send a reset despite this. We had a live session via thunderbird but there were no channels of support. Luckily we were able to register her old mobile number to achieve a password reset, thanks to a helpful phone p…

> My mom forgot her gmail password and no longer had the same mobile number for a reset, the secondary reset option was set to my email but would not send a reset despite this. I’m in a similar position except I know my password. Google decided for whatever reason that my location was too different and now requires that I verify via a phone number I no longer have. I have access to the recovery email and even get ‘su…

I had this same problem - correct password but google wouldn’t let me in. The alternate email was from a domain I owned 10 years ago. I didn’t have access for a few years, but eventually I resorted to re purchasing that domain and setting up a mail server.

Fuck you google.

Re: My Google Traffic Has Fallen to Zero

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Post by yokem55 »

ryan29 wrote: post #128
viraptor wrote: post #79

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> I have no idea why ipv6 would indicate that I’m not a spammer It's likely not about ipv6, but instead it's about your ipv4 having bad reputation in the past. Basically you changed your source address to a cleaner one.

This is very likely the case. Check the IP on a site that does IP reputation scoring [1]. They probably don't have a database of "bad" addresses for IPv6, so it squeaks by for now. I'm sure that'll change in the future though. My current IP shows "0 - low risk" with that tool. Grabbing a random PIA IP shows "93% - Abusive IP" with a warning about being a high risk proxy connection. The random VPN IP is also on SPAM b…

FWIW - I suspect the "IP reputation" site you referenced is utter bullshit when it comes to its "Proxy Detection". Looking at my own residential public address it calls it a 'low risk proxy' when I can assure that it most definitely is not. It doesn't help that their explanation for how they attempt to detect this is a pile of marketing word salad. I don't expect them to be completely transparent to their methodology, but they should make some attempt at presenting a bit of technical background.
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