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this is unbelievable. Was talking to a collegue of mine and a good friend one of his sites about tech news that is inactive since 2019 and not posting content, today has more views than my site and his site combined. These two sites are fully active for more than 14 years and the past days we are posting around 30 pieces each. How can a tech website with outdated articles from 7 years ago has more views?
I literally cried when I saw the results, I just kept thinking of everyone on here who can't buy food for their children. Honestly, the karma is so bad. $185 billion is insane amount of spending, I wonder how they plan to turn AI into profit.
imagine, with big getting 60 clicks a day, but only 150 with google organic, that says something. i mean I think this is nice for bing, the main challenge I see is running out of topics fast and what to cover then? I don't want to write about bullshit with zero search volume
could there be such a thing as optimizing for bing? maybe like 3x of content or 10x? but maybe worth it at the end?
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You see that crazy divergence there? Huge impressions but clicks are going the other way instead?
That’s the result of AI Overviews and AI mode. And it will get worse. Google just reported such stellar earnings and they will have to keep it up and find even crazier (unethical) ways to milk for more ad revenue.
Like 290_IQ_Equaliser here once said, “GG no RE”.
As I’ve said in the past… We lost. Google won.
No matter what anyone else says, Google has won.
I still can’t help but shake my head when people still go, “Google is going to crash. How can they survive without us? They’re going to collapse!” We’ve been saying this for years and they just kept growing stronger and stronger.
The evil has triumphed, while the victims are still in denial.
In another news, look at Google's new "bug":
<a href="https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ai-overviews-bug-no-links-40885.html">https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ai-overviews-bug-no-links-40885.html</a>
The truth is, people are spooked by Google’s plan to spend another $125+ billions on AI. It is one of the main reasons for the selloff initially. However, if you look at the price now, it has stabilised. The moment of truth is when the stock market opens later…
But something tells me investors will ‘buy the dip’ and it will push Google’s stock price higher.
It can also be “buy the rumour, sell the news” approach. People already knew the good outcome so they’re taking profit. This entire week has been pretty negative for tech stocks because of AI concerns. Yesterday there were concerns of softwares getting killed by AI and it caused a stock rout.
But no matter how we rationalise it, Google has won and continues to win.
Every financial news and analysts are hyping and saying the good stuff about Google and how Pichai is a wonderful CEO who took Google to the front in the AI race. Many are questioning OpenAI’s growth and have they lost to Google…
The most concerning part of this Feb 2nd spike isn't just the ranking shifts, but the reports of RPM and traffic quality dropping by 50% even when keyword positions hold steady. It feels like Google is 'fixing' the SERPs by serving more low-intent or Discover-style traffic that doesn't convert. Has anyone else noticed their rankings 'recovering' but their actual revenue continuing to slide?
Yeah, I'm at a loss anymore, haven't had a good sleep in nearly two months. Hoping for a miracle but everyday that seems further away yet I still plug and spend 12-16 hours a day on this crap for less than a dollar.
Same situation here. We keep posting 25-30 news per day and still no recovery. The past 4 days were the worst in the past 5-6 years... And we got many backlinks 3-4 days ago from an exclusive article.
This morning RPM is at its lowest level in the last 6 months, at least in my country. I see on Ahrefs a repositioning of keywords (right to positions 50-90), and a removal of many current keywords
not saying u should do this, but here’s what i did:
i deleted all my old articles, switched the domain from non-www to www, and just kept posting new stuff after like 20 days, i was back on discover and front page of google news.
it’s one of those tricks we use to speed up the penalty recovery on google news
but if ur site is super old and u have a big archive, i wouldn’t recommend it tbh. too risky
did the same brotha. non-stop for years hopeful it'd turnaround. saw growth the last two core updates. then what ever is happening with this update rolling now i've lost big time. we do nothing wrong. i'm done with it. first time in 14 years i don't care about my site anymore. hate to say it but it's time to move on man. get a job or do something else with your life. it is over. this will never be profitable again for publishers.
Bang on, I lost news and discover for 10 months from Dec 2023 through to like September 2024, then enjoyed my best year ever across 2025, now I'm experiencing the same but this time around I've taken keywords, my search has been destroyed and everything else. So I'm hopeful it'll maybe fix a bit but I just can't see it, search is a mess and there's no security anywhere
Yeah. I see a few websites that appears in Top Stories but not at all/the lowest position on the News Tab in Search. My website was in that situation itself a few weeks in the beginning of last year.
Google Search is really a mess :/
Hi!
im in the same situation as @Dan. I'm curious: how long time did it took from that your website was appearing last in the News Tab until it was coming back on the top again? Did you did any technical changes?
Hi! When you copy + paste a headline from your website, does is appear in #1 result then or more far down? (Kinda every article from my website appears on like position 5-6 when I copy paste the exact headline...)
I think you will be right. It seems they are going full AI mode now and measuring it on how many queries they make. I don't know what they will train on going forward when were not around.
I'm more concerned with what Google is doing with their browser as it has 70% market share and their AI subscriptions are growing fast. I'm thinking Google will try to make Chrome into a walled prison just like search, insert in-browser ads, etc.