There's a very cynical part of me that is considering whether this might be a planned action by Google to cycle the FP, and try to get the "disappeared" sites to pay Google for pay-per-click advertising. I wish that was completely unbelievable, but Google has proven to be entirely focused on profit when it comes to monetizing search; and of course intentionally starving sites from getting hits/leads/conversions seems like the best and fastest way to generate profit from their desperation.
Why has examine.com disappeared from search results?
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Re: Why has examine.com disappeared from search results?
#22For additional context, Google has "disappeared" 100s of alt-health sites - some bad, but some very good. The site Self Hacked was one, and detailed it here: https://selfhacked.com/blog/google-censorship-of-health-webs... Some, like Mercola, peddle highly-controversial, near anti-vax content. But on the other end of the spectrum, Examine.com should be the gold standard. Quality Raters should use it as an example of a…
Many similar websites have suffered from a so-called "Medic" update. Some of them recovered (through fixing their website), some did not. The SEO community is full of such stories, for more than a year I think. How is it news? :thinking:
"How is it news?"
Recently piqued interest in antitrust actions for companies like Google, Facebook, and Amazon.
Re: Why has examine.com disappeared from search results?
#23I've noticed that Google search results prioritize reputation above search matching. If you search for something, even if there's a blog out there with the exact thing your searching for, it won't show up, even in the top 100 search results, unless the site has a high enough page rank/ or some other generic metric google is looking for. This is unfortunate because there's a lot of great information out there that nev…
> Google still has a long way to go before they solve the search problem For any search query, there's only two results: 1, what you're actually looking for 2, what Google wants you to see Unfortunately Google has 'solved' the search problem by always optimising for 2, and most times it's never what you want to see. That's not just health results either, for most anything outside of 'pop culture' Google is garbage.
Sounds like we need a new search engine, a better search engine. One that returns the things you're actually searching for.
Re: Why has examine.com disappeared from search results?
#24I was going to say that "examine.com is one of the best sites on the internet for information about supplements/nutrition". But it's not. It's the best site on the internet for that sort of thing. It's great that Google is attempting to fix the issue of bullshit nutrition sites ranking highly, but I sincerely hope someone at Google sees this and does something to help out Examine, which is a tremendous resource.
Thank you!
Re: Why has examine.com disappeared from search results?
#25I'd move off Cloudflare. Cloudflare hosts a bunch of sites that are penalized by google. Google is known to penalized sites in bad neighborhoods. Spend the money and get dedicated IPs and don't share certs. Examine.com is sharing a cert with an online gambling site(reengame.com).
Cloudflare is hardly an obscure service. I'm confident that Google's search quality team is aware that Cloudflare exists, and that they have taken steps to avoid penalizing sites for using it.
Re: Why has examine.com disappeared from search results?
#26I've noticed that Google search results prioritize reputation above search matching. If you search for something, even if there's a blog out there with the exact thing your searching for, it won't show up, even in the top 100 search results, unless the site has a high enough page rank/ or some other generic metric google is looking for. This is unfortunate because there's a lot of great information out there that nev…
Our reputation is pretty damn solid - that's what makes this even more perplexing.
Re: Why has examine.com disappeared from search results?
#27The folks at Examine.com should also analyze what inbound links they have scattered on the web.
An easy way to sink your competition is to place their links on shady websites. It's common SEO practice.
Re: Why has examine.com disappeared from search results?
#28I'd move off Cloudflare. Cloudflare hosts a bunch of sites that are penalized by google. Google is known to penalized sites in bad neighborhoods. Spend the money and get dedicated IPs and don't share certs. Examine.com is sharing a cert with an online gambling site(reengame.com).
Oh damn - will check into that.
With that said - we've been using CF since April or May. The hits happened well before.
Re: Why has examine.com disappeared from search results?
#29I was going to say that "examine.com is one of the best sites on the internet for information about supplements/nutrition". But it's not. It's the best site on the internet for that sort of thing. It's great that Google is attempting to fix the issue of bullshit nutrition sites ranking highly, but I sincerely hope someone at Google sees this and does something to help out Examine, which is a tremendous resource.
Do you buy their guides or use it to individually research compounds?
It doesn't appear to be much different than other health websites, except they sell guides, which may change the incentive structure away from marketing and towards research.
Re: Why has examine.com disappeared from search results?
#30>Let’s be clear: Google owes us nothing. They are a private organization, they can do whatever they want. This is a surprising thing to hear. I think given Google's influence, they owe them at least some fairness.
And, as an entity more powerful than any living thing on this planet (with the power to kill or support nearly any online business), they owe the world quite a bit of fairness: Otherwise, they can watch as their search business drops to nothing overnight. Facebook and Amazon and most B2Bs have quite a bit of lock in. But google, if they piss everyone off, we'll we're just one tab away from using something else: and once people realize that something else is equal or better, it's all over for G.
I switched to duck duck go a few months ago for search and the cost of switching was Zero.