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Ekees SEO commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

Same

Comment ID #6820958663 01/09/2026 03:59 am

Daniel commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

same here

Comment ID #6820956145 01/09/2026 03:46 am

Dan commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

This looks exactly like mine, although that drop has now gone to 30-40, a disaster. Hope it gets better for you.

Comment ID #6820952143 01/09/2026 03:26 am

johnadam commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

I don't know what is happening. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c7f4196c79735a75fbd7c82227c352cd2609b13837064ac53d7fcd92e79ce7ad.png

Comment ID #6820945422 01/09/2026 02:48 am

Dark Red Owl commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

Know that thousands are in this situation. Be happy if you don't have employees. We are 12 people in our media. We currently have revenue for 3. The most famous site in the city and in the top 5 in the country. We have been working together for 20 years. From 1 million impressions per day, I fell to 250 thousand - we were left with only direct traffic and social networks. There was no warning, others steal our content and appear in discover. The worst thing is that you don't know the reasons. You don't know whether to fight and lose every day. Google doesn't kill you once, it sends you to hell and kills you constantly every day.

Comment ID #6820933550 01/09/2026 01:33 am

Dan commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

Update: The news site is lucky to have now hit 80 clicks in a single day, yes, 80 clicks. That's down from 500,000 in one week, only a handful of months ago, and peaks near 70,000-120,000 per day. I've been wiped from Discover, News, Images, and Search, with the latter accounting for NOW a mere 50 clicks a day, down from an average of anywhere between 600 to 2,000. Hard to not panic here. What a terrible start to 2026, I feel for all those publishers also being affected. I cannot believe just how quickly everything can be ripped from you. Fingers crossed for a course correction, though I'd be lying if I said I had any hope.

Comment ID #6820922371 01/09/2026 12:20 am

Daniel commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

same here

Comment ID #6820922203 01/09/2026 12:18 am

2026 commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

💯 + earnings

Comment ID #6820921146 01/09/2026 12:12 am

2026 commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

💯

Comment ID #6820921060 01/09/2026 12:11 am

2026 commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

Same

Comment ID #6820920609 01/09/2026 12:09 am

2026 commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

Seems this is the ultimate end

Comment ID #6820920114 01/09/2026 12:06 am

clone21 commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

because it is crazy

Comment ID #6820894487 01/08/2026 10:16 pm

John A. User commented on Tailwind CSS Lets Go Of 75% Of Engineering Team After 40% Traffic Drop To Docs From Google

Sounds about right but probably earlier than that.

Comment ID #6820749812 01/08/2026 04:05 pm

Vic Daniels commented on Google's John Mueller On If You Should Invest In GEO

It's insane to devote time and resource abd hope that big tech platforms / AI will generate referral traffic. That ship has sailed and big tech has proved time and time again that they aren't reliable partners - as many of us can affirm, you are one algo update away from disaster. Better to focus your time amd effort building your own community / walled garden. Don't let big tech determine who visits your site - be the master of your own destiny.

Comment ID #6820746532 01/08/2026 03:59 pm

lostinblue commented on Does Google Discover Show X Posts Too Often?

X is showing ads on Google Discover. It's kinda insane. So, Sony posts "new red PS5" on X, that's not news, that's PR. And all of a sudden it's like by using X, they bought space on Google Discover. whatever deal google did, google discover already has ads, they just let a player in who chooses who to show ads for, on top of the slots google chooses.

Comment ID #6820739854 01/08/2026 03:47 pm

UncleKrusty commented on Tailwind CSS Lets Go Of 75% Of Engineering Team After 40% Traffic Drop To Docs From Google

I think Amazon's first wave of layoffs are to start later this month. Some stories I've seen on Amazon indicate the 14K layoffs Amazon announced could balloon to 30K by the end of the year.

Comment ID #6820713571 01/08/2026 03:02 pm

John A. User commented on Tailwind CSS Lets Go Of 75% Of Engineering Team After 40% Traffic Drop To Docs From Google

<a href="https://www.trueup.io/layoffs">https://www.trueup.io/layoffs</a> Just the start, Tailwind if its the same one as the link, they got rid of 3 people. Devastating for each individual.

Comment ID #6820687403 01/08/2026 02:18 pm

FokGoogle commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

Even huge sums like a few billion dollars is chump change for Google. They don't care about this at all.

Comment ID #6820668177 01/08/2026 01:46 pm

Ekees SEO commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

Almost true. Most old sites, with not a massive authority rating. My sites are battered, especially the revenue, traffic is relatively, vaguely ok.

Comment ID #6820620863 01/08/2026 12:26 pm

UncleKrusty commented on Tailwind CSS Lets Go Of 75% Of Engineering Team After 40% Traffic Drop To Docs From Google

I saw the news as well. Angi claims AI efficiency is the reason why they're reducing their workforce by roughly 12%.

Comment ID #6820616316 01/08/2026 12:18 pm

snuffy commented on Microsoft Hiring Senior Product Manager To Fight Spam On Bing & Copilot

"Very" Senior.... heh... people like me in their 70s and 80s ought to apply for this job. We don't have time to piss around with spam.

Comment ID #6820609998 01/08/2026 12:07 pm

UncleKrusty commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

Google needs more money to pay for the lawsuit they just settled regarding AI being the cause of teen suicides/self harm. It was also reported that Google is facing a class action lawsuit for enabling AI training in Gmail, and other Google services, without notice to users and making it willfully/intentionally difficult for users to disable. All the more reason for users to abandon Gmail addresses and for businesses to reject email from Gmail. <b>Google Faces Gmail Lawsuit Over Hidden AI Training Settings</b> <blockquote>The tech giant now faces a class-action lawsuit after enabling “Smart Features” across all user accounts without notification—and most people had no idea it was happening. The Daily Mail report on Jan. 5 revealed that Google had activated these settings for Gmail, Chat, and Meet users, granting AI models unprecedented access to scan personal communications. Users must manually disable the settings in multiple hidden locations to opt out—a process so complex that even security experts initially got it wrong.</blockquote>Full story: <a href="https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-google-gmail-hidden-ai-training-settings/">https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-google-gmail-hidden-ai-training-settings/</a>

Comment ID #6820603763 01/08/2026 11:56 am

Circeus commented on Don't Create Separate Google Business Profile For Department Listings

Hey Barry, you seem to be confusing departments and the "located inside" function in that twitter thread. The one example of true departments I know of near me actually is displaying for me rn so to be fair I don't know what greg is talking about either! This Walmart has a "walmart wireless" set up as a department: <a href="https://local.google.com/place?id=6904871995190103878&use=srp">https://local.google.com/place?id=6904871995190103878&use=srp</a>

Comment ID #6820595882 01/08/2026 11:42 am

Jacob Hurwith commented on Tailwind CSS Lets Go Of 75% Of Engineering Team After 40% Traffic Drop To Docs From Google

Angi had to let go a of many engineers yesterday as well Barry.

Comment ID #6820579265 01/08/2026 11:13 am

Ted (or Big T) commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

Holy shit (sorry). AdSense drop 30 percent (than previous week), traffic drop 30-40 percent (than previous week). What happened?

Comment ID #6820571791 01/08/2026 11:00 am

Golden Phoenix commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

AdSense earnings tend to drop like a rock as soon as we hit the new year. It has happened to me pretty much every year but of course we don't earn much these days since traffic is gone

Comment ID #6820528991 01/08/2026 09:41 am

Dollarboy commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

Yes, 70% drop in Adsense earnings, eCPM, RPM since January 1

Comment ID #6820511843 01/08/2026 09:07 am

BM commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

Can anyone explain why Google Analytics is showing this as traffic? https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c72194722a60a0184d056ee085438cbdf81bd94a06529d41420ed3fc3a928f61.png

Comment ID #6820473084 01/08/2026 07:30 am

googleisjoke commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

true blogging stinks just like google

Comment ID #6820470045 01/08/2026 07:21 am

Sam commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

They forcing advertisors to use AI and they don't want to. There was one guy on reddit who lost 3k with 0 leads and is asking why a few years ago this yielded good leads. They changed the ad bidding and now they can't ROI due to all the AI slop.

Comment ID #6820433362 01/08/2026 05:08 am

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