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Re: Google Update Tanks Traffic

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Post by ClumsyPilot »

sowbug wrote: post #75
ClumsyPilot wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Improving your content to optimise for SEO is not the same as improving it for the user. I hope that fact was made bloody obvious by SEO-hugging websites full of garbage occupying top spot of many google searches. In fact i might google a spesific product, like a Monitor, and the top result will be "but Monitor XYZ on Amazon". When i click on the link, turns out they don't actually sell or stock that product at all!

You clicked an ad. Amazon is happy to have paid for you to land there.

Please, I not a genius but even I can tell apart an ad from a search result.

Re: Google Update Tanks Traffic

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Post by ALittleLight »

cbsmith wrote: post #60
xamuel wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>If you're seeing lower traffic on your site and don't feel like you need to improve the content or do something different, you deserve to be losing that traffic to someone else who does. I disagree. Suppose you're unquestionably the world expert in some niche field, and you write a site with high-quality, timeless content. It would be really infuriating if some SEO knocked you out of the search results with an adfar…

You're missing the point here. Regardless of the causes of the decline, there are invariably things you can do to improve your content or just generally change your approach.

This seems a bit backwards to me. If you have the best website for a subject, and Google doesn't rank it, the problem is not that your SEO is bad, it's that Google is failing. You have the best website for the query and Google's job is to find the best websites for a query. If Google fails to do that, that shouldn't mean you need to do more work. It should mean Google needs to make some kind of change.

Re: Google Update Tanks Traffic

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Post by Yetanfou »

marcrosoft wrote: post #21
zelly wrote: post #16

If you depend on SEO for traffic you will go extinct one way or another. Even if you don't get black swaned by an update. SEO is a really an outdated strategy for getting traffic, something that used to be popular in the 2000s when just having a website at all put you on the map. I have seen declining search engine traffic on my sites for years but it has less to do with Google and more to do with the changing cultur…

I would like to take the opportunity to point out that your comment could be exposed to thousands more viewers. We at the SEO-institute-of-fill-in-the-blank can dramatically increase your traffic.

Imagine a down-voting button for search results. Had it not been so easy to abuse this might be a solution to this conundrum.

Re: Google Update Tanks Traffic

#104

Post by ssvss »

justcomments12 wrote: post #78

A botnet is attacking the site in question (domains include xxxcommitted, pornsextube, qastack, thecouponholiday etc) Around May 2020 the attacks started on your site, see your data: https://i.imgur.com/mfFRgVj.png This botnet contains thousands of sites (so far I found this botnet includes 9000+ domains). The same botnet that's attacking my sites and thousands of others companies. It may well be this is a foreign st…

> When this botnet is attacking your site(s), it's goodbye to your blogging income. Sad but true.

Is it because botnet attack makes your site slow, and make it lose google ranking ?

Re: Google Update Tanks Traffic

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Post by justcomments12 »

ssvss wrote: post #104
justcomments12 wrote: post #78

A botnet is attacking the site in question (domains include xxxcommitted, pornsextube, qastack, thecouponholiday etc) Around May 2020 the attacks started on your site, see your data: https://i.imgur.com/mfFRgVj.png This botnet contains thousands of sites (so far I found this botnet includes 9000+ domains). The same botnet that's attacking my sites and thousands of others companies. It may well be this is a foreign st…

> When this botnet is attacking your site(s), it's goodbye to your blogging income. Sad but true. Is it because botnet attack makes your site slow, and make it lose google ranking ?

It's because the botnet pages themselves contains data which Google considers spam (unrelated topics, link farms, ad pages, porn etc).

Google then lowers the rankings (or removes the blogs from Google). All they have to do is run an update script to update all the domains with the blog link, and Google lowers their rankings.

Re: Google Update Tanks Traffic

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Post by dswalter »

jacobobryant wrote: post #54
nickreese wrote: post #26

I’ve been an SEO guy since 2006 and I really miss the yesteryears where everyone had a blog and linked out to great content. This helped the small guys thrive as it wasn’t just the big guys getting/building links... the little guys were attracting them naturally just by creating unique expert level content. Today there are so few proxies for naturally occurring “curation” online that Google and others are obviously s…

> A great example of curation in the dev space is awesome lists. If someone could make a collaborative platform for awesome-lists for everything I believe that could be the foundation of a new type of curation powered search engine. Hey, I am working on basically this. E.g.: https://findka.com/u/jobryant (warning, takes ~10 seconds to load fully). You make a profile, add your top article/book/movie/music/etc recommen…

I am on a 2019 macbook pro with decent internet speed, and it took >20 seconds to load.
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