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Golden Phoenix commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility From October 15th To 17th

They are coming for the rest of our traffic: <a href="https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1980685602384441368">https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1980685602384441368</a>

Comment ID #6785769171 10/21/2025 06:54 pm

Andon commented on Google Voice Search Now Using Speech-to-Retrieval (S2R)

Since voice searches are no longer transcribed into text by Google, is it safe to assume that we will not see any of the queries in Google Search Console or Google Ads?

Comment ID #6785768226 10/21/2025 06:51 pm

John A. User commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility From October 15th To 17th

Yep, got HT in the UK results

Comment ID #6785648600 10/21/2025 02:21 pm

John A. User commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility From October 15th To 17th

@disqus_mhdmnl16vr:disqus I always search with AI off but its not something that Google actively promotes. For more info:- <a href="https://tenbluelinks.org/">https://tenbluelinks.org/ </a> Do 3x more searches, as eventually Google thinks someone will give in and click on an advert. Clicking on an advert is more beneficial than being bombarded with ads. Showing an advert on Google Search instead of a website is also more valuable. Google has lost the plot, lost innovation, lost focus and is instead reactionary. It's all gone t!ts up since Schmit left. When Eric left, we had PAA, Image search, etc. Image Search is a reaction to Pinterest and PicSearch rather than forging ahead on the same straight path. Scumdar has just turned the knob to max to destroy the internet. With a global monopoly, Mehta failed to take any meaningful action, so nothing will change. Most users, I'd guess, don't know of Bing, DuckDuckGo and Brave. If they see a feature on another site, they don't think is it good, they just do it to prevent a small number of users from running off. As Gabriel mentioned some time ago and reinforced what I said, if Google actually directed people to sites instead of answering, they would probably make more money. Sites show ads, which Info answers on Google don't. Google is only increasing in revenue because they are branching out and also due to inflation; they are neglecting their core values. I think in the second quarter, didn't Google lose money in an area? Although their money is increasing, I'd love to see an inflation adjusted comparison of their advertising.

Comment ID #6785631702 10/21/2025 01:48 pm

Curly commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility From October 15th To 17th

I typed in American NFL football player Lamar Jackson name in Google search and the two sites that appeared on top stories were Times of India and Hindustan Times. Smh

Comment ID #6785607728 10/21/2025 01:00 pm

Jacek Rużyczka commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility From October 15th To 17th

I'm afraid that many, or even most, of us will crash in the medium run. Our chief editor has even written a protest letter against Google's AI mode because it basically dries up the current ecosystem publishers use to thrive in. Unfortunately, he hasn't mentioned the upcoming AI summary for Discover, which may give us another painful hit. Neither hasn't he listeden to Liz Reid's last gaslighting.

Comment ID #6785543696 10/21/2025 10:47 am

FokGoogle commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility From October 15th To 17th

Same but whatever traffic is coming in, it's converting like crazy on two of my sites. Strange.

Comment ID #6785535220 10/21/2025 10:29 am

Sam commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility From October 15th To 17th

I posted a legit link now it thinks I am a spammer. Anyway I don't get the whole thing. Why force people to use AI why not have an on/off button, and why make a user do 3x as many searches because even with that it will not create more revenue than a visitor seeing 5-10 ads on my one webpage. It all does not make sense. I don't understand the Google strategy tbh it is going to crash I think.

Comment ID #6785508792 10/21/2025 09:31 am

Golden Phoenix commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility From October 15th To 17th

I didn't notice anything but today traffic seems down. who even knows what's going on

Comment ID #6785496610 10/21/2025 09:03 am

DataDonkey commented on Google's More Core Updates, More Often, Unlikely

I think Google meant to say there would be more gaslighting updates moving forward, and there have been.

Comment ID #6785473092 10/21/2025 08:02 am

BushyTop commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility From October 15th To 17th

Losing established terms for the index again. Same thing as the last bout of volatility.

Comment ID #6785424633 10/21/2025 04:48 am

SpXmtdd commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility From October 15th To 17th

Rookie numbers bro.. I get that per day 😎

Comment ID #6785385415 10/21/2025 01:14 am

2025 commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility From October 15th To 17th

Yes you are right. G is an evil company with the nastiest policies.

Comment ID #6785369760 10/20/2025 11:43 pm

2025 commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility From October 15th To 17th

💯

Comment ID #6785369600 10/20/2025 11:42 pm

2025 commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility From October 15th To 17th

"earn from ads and affiliate" - if you're earning, I think I'll give it a last try as well, now I'll spam, and I'll make sure to be nasty about my level of spamming. Being a good person doesn't work these days especially when it's dealing with a nasty company like G, it's worth going the crooked way.

Comment ID #6785369554 10/20/2025 11:41 pm

2025 commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility From October 15th To 17th

I even think if someone keeps spamming, they'll profit. It's crystal clear by now that white hat SEO is dead.

Comment ID #6785369113 10/20/2025 11:39 pm

2025 commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility From October 15th To 17th

It won't, atleast in the near future, I suppose. The conditions so bad that I've lost my last hope of fixing it. Never in my life had I imagined the real-time traffic to hit 1 or 2. Just like you said, "As soon as I post my posts get a detected spam thing on them." - I'm pretty sure G is implementing some or the approach to be sure that the traffic hits 0. I've finally given up, this thing isn't in my hands any longer.

Comment ID #6785368799 10/20/2025 11:38 pm

2025 commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility From October 15th To 17th

Real time traffic is 1 or 2 no matter when I'm checking the analytics.

Comment ID #6785368057 10/20/2025 11:34 pm

Jamie Antoun commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility From October 15th To 17th

No, not at all! I was excited to see your name, it was just my first time applying for it!

Comment ID #6785363485 10/20/2025 11:15 pm

Gary Brazzell commented on Google Ads Search Partners Network Fraud

Google's pervasive click fraud has been a huge problem for some business types but not others. Business types affected: home care, hospital, home health, health insurance. Business types not affected: hospice, non-emergency medical transportation, real estate, post-secondary education. This was visible in 2023, but the pricing algorithms adjusted automatically so that my real leads did not go down in volume. In 2024, the click fraud got so strong, that it began crowding out the real leads. By late 2024, early 2025, the Google was selling 100% click fraud for affected business types. Attempt to disable Search Partners for a few months didn't work for us, as the Google algorithms worked quite poorly without Search Partner data moderating what Google was doing. The real problem is Google's lack of transparency in Search Partners. If they gave us controls similar to Google Video ads, we could simply disable sources of fraud in our campaigns, learn their names, and disable them proactively in other campaigns. They need to list them by partner, not just website, as they can spin up clickbait websites fast! Google, of course, is highly resistant to the same transparency they preach when it comes to Search Partners, so the other option would be to enhance the Notes feature for each conversion accessible in the bar graph. Adding "disregard" and "disregard and report suspected fraud" would help us keep our algorithms cleaner. Then a Maximize Conversions campaign would learn to steer toward real conversions instead of Google's fraud. Google would not lose money, because the same ad dollars would be chasing the same valid clicks. Cost per click would go up and we would be able to manage ads appropriately for good value.

Comment ID #6785183031 10/20/2025 02:58 pm

Barry Schwartz commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility From October 15th To 17th

Is that an issue? I have been since it launched.

Comment ID #6785181246 10/20/2025 02:55 pm

Durant Imboden commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility From October 15th To 17th

No drama here from the 15th to the 17th. However, we're doing slightly better in general than I'd expect at this time of year. Normally our travel site has a long, slow slide from September until mid- or late December, but our Google traffic is holding up pretty well this October and is up year over year (something I hadn't seen in a long time). That's pretty remarkable at a time when Google AI Overviews are sucking up organic traffic.

Comment ID #6785181185 10/20/2025 02:55 pm

Jamie Antoun commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility From October 15th To 17th

@rustybrick:disqus I didn't know you were a judge for the Search Engine Land Awards!

Comment ID #6785177360 10/20/2025 02:47 pm

John A. User commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility From October 15th To 17th

Thanks.

Comment ID #6785174174 10/20/2025 02:42 pm

UncleKrusty commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility From October 15th To 17th

<blockquote>When did you get that quote from about AWS?</blockquote>I've been monitoring this since the wee hours of the morning. I can't even login to our business online banking because the two-factor authentication relies on AWS. For AWS updates, see: <a href="https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status?path=service-history">https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status?path=service-history</a>

Comment ID #6785134992 10/20/2025 01:31 pm

John A. User commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility From October 15th To 17th

One thing that is quite scary is that the UK Gov and UK businesses are affected, especially when the UK Gov shouldn't be outsourcing work to servers in another country, even if they are friendly, unless the "DNS issue" has knocked out UK servers as well. You have to wonder if you flip it, and Amazon's London server goes down, would that affect US businesses as well? Are they too dependent on one another, or has the UK Gov outsourced their work to the problem server? When did you get that quote from about AWS? The internet is failing in its original mission, much like Google. Wasn't the Internet supposed to ensure that information was distributed so that if there was a problem, it could be rerouted? I guess most people and Jeff Bezos have forgotten that. Google's original mission statement was to find the best page and get people off Google and onto the best page...

Comment ID #6785121689 10/20/2025 01:06 pm

UncleKrusty commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility From October 15th To 17th

Maybe AWS still being down/degraded in their US-East 1 region has something to do with it? We still can't ship anything USPS because Stamps(dot)com is down. <blockquote>Oct 20 8:43 AM PDT We have narrowed down the source of the network connectivity issues that impacted AWS Services. The root cause is an underlying internal subsystem responsible for monitoring the health of our network load balancers. We are throttling requests for new EC2 instance launches to aid recovery and actively working on mitigations.</blockquote>

Comment ID #6785091697 10/20/2025 12:09 pm

Ted (or Big T) commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility From October 15th To 17th

Very slow Monday... Traffic is dead today.

Comment ID #6785026769 10/20/2025 10:02 am

Sam commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility From October 15th To 17th

As soon as I post my posts get a detected spam thing on them. SamSam please Barry - I just said when do you guys think the AI bubble will burst.

Comment ID #6785012452 10/20/2025 09:33 am

DataDonkey commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility From October 15th To 17th

If Liz Greed can go on an interview tour and lie to the masses without shame, you should feel no shame either. I personally could never interview her or any other lying sack of Greedler. I wouldn't want my good name and reputation used as a platform to gaslight the world.

Comment ID #6784974519 10/20/2025 08:09 am

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