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Mark commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

the vast majority of people selling seo are just scammers now. Once you can't actually make any money doing seo, the finally bit of cash you can squeeze out of it selling seo to victims, or maybe selling training courses. <blockquote>It is even more hilarious when you see SEO subreddit or Black Hat World members still saying “SEO isn’t dead, you just gotta adapt.”</blockquote> It's still true to some level.... some people are making 6/7 figure incomes from seo. But it's dead for most of the people with rubbish websites and a $0 promotional budget. The days of a free income from the internet with a rubbish affiliate site have been over for years.

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Sam commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

Qwant is trashy, has all my spam competitors in there that were banned from Google

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Sam commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

@johnauser:disqus can you tell me what you think we should ask for. e.g. Fair ranking: not sure how this could work. Opting out of AI (not really an option)

Comment ID #6835618441 02/09/2026 09:09 am

actualart commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

Real authority and how many decades your site has been best in its vertical doesn't matter to Google at all.

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John A. User commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

I won't be able to attend so i hope the meeting is beneficial and not just something where they try to look good. Hopefully, you can come back with a summary for us.

Comment ID #6835600242 02/09/2026 08:23 am

googleisjoke commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

yeah everyone will go for niches that are not saturated, making it automatically saturated

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googleisjoke commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

there are many "very legit" guys I would say xD that dropped like a crap

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Sam commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

Its a complete joke, and the stock people think its a great buy they have no idea

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Sam commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

Yes they are but I get hardly any traffic as they are full of spam sites google banned.

Comment ID #6835571083 02/09/2026 06:46 am

Dimitris Abrazis commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

Yes but... Website profile arrived in Discover in EU... So it is not only for US...

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googleisjoke commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

i checked it for fun and we outranked musicradar 1st spot for almost anything we write (I know sounds braggy), but that's the case. almost same on bing, ddg simiar / yahoo similar.

Comment ID #6835517451 02/09/2026 02:16 am

Ted (or Big T) commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

EU traffic dead. Very bad...

Comment ID #6835515189 02/09/2026 02:00 am

Max Peters commented on ChatGPT & Perplexity Treat Structured Data As Text On A Page

That was the point of the test. The author wanted to see if the platforms ingested only text found in valid schema, or if they also picked up text in completly made up schema types

Comment ID #6835435929 02/08/2026 08:18 pm

clone21 commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

These things are very legit mom blogs, existed for ages already, they circulating mostly in pinterest, and get a tons of traffics, you can regard those legit and quality authority sites, that's why they ranked.

Comment ID #6835435165 02/08/2026 08:16 pm

John A. User commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

If you were to put your keywords in that you got for Qwant, would they also be number 1 in DuckDuckGo and BIng?

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Sam commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

We may also have this then, I like it just put some of my keywords in and nice to see I am number 1

Comment ID #6835391530 02/08/2026 05:53 pm

DataDonkey commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

Maybe the food blogs closed prior to AI retreating because of the Frankenstein recipe problem? I'm not sure, because I'm in ecom and even 100% impossible to find products we sell get no traffic from Google because of their ad spam. Just remember there are many like you who build sites and monetize with ads. Very few niches have no AI and ads. If you do build food blogs, you may not be competing against Google (for now), but the competition may be intense as others like you enter niches where AI isn't present or displayed often.

Comment ID #6835363084 02/08/2026 04:38 pm

googleisjoke commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

that means to start food blog, but I saw many food blogs that just dropped as anyone else

Comment ID #6835331038 02/08/2026 03:26 pm

DataDonkey commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

Because AI is just scrape, spin and publish. Google has stolen ingredients from recipe bloggers, spun the ingredients together to output single disastrous final recipes. If a recipe site is doing good, that just means Google and other AI chatbots realize they can't easily steal a recipe without copying it in its entirety. So if you want to create sites that get traffic, you must do the same and find niches where AI isn't stealing all the traffic. Barry had a number of posts regarding what are known as AI generated Frankenstein recipes. You will find Barry's most recent post <a href="https://www.seroundtable.com/bing-unshipping-frankenstein-recipes-40888.html">https://www.seroundtable.com/bing-unshipping-frankenstein-recipes-40888.html</a> on his homepage, which links to his previous posts about the topic.

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googleisjoke commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

but still why do sites like this are doing so well? I see cooking sites and they just crush it especially US guys, there must be something to it, it's just a.. blog <a href="http://happyfoodstube.com">http://happyfoodstube.com </a> also there are more of them here <a href="https://aruljohn.com/websites-using-mediavine">https://aruljohn.com/websites-using-mediavine</a>

Comment ID #6835229131 02/08/2026 11:30 am

John A. User commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

And @disqus_tCRyPV6vXh:disqus , well, they have Qwant, which uses the Bing index if I'm correct. They could do more to support them. Qwant is really nice except for the small amount of pictures and videos they have, they should get rid of those and wahey.... Qwant does both France and mostly worldwide.

Comment ID #6835226381 02/08/2026 11:23 am

googleisjoke commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

worldwide SE? or some sort of local just for France?

Comment ID #6835225133 02/08/2026 11:20 am

Sam commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

I think my country is angry (UK) I am going next week to the board meetings with the government and the big teach to discuss the effects on publishers. France has just said they will do their own search engine.

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Sam commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

He should just tell the truth, otherwise hes scamming he could say he could move them to generative AI SEO but we both know that's a waste of time

Comment ID #6835216172 02/08/2026 10:57 am

DataDonkey commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

The talk about UBI is all hot air imo. Government can't afford it because income taxes drop as people lose jobs, sales taxes drop as people quit spending due to a lack of money and property taxes drop because people can't afford to pay them if they have no income. Government will find themselves financially handcuffed, due to a lack of people paying taxes, and unable to serve their basic functions. This may be the temporary dystopia phase and destruction of capitalism Mo Gawdat speaks of where most suffer except those imposing their destructive AI on the world. The only ones who would be able to afford to pay UBI would be the big tech companies. Since these companies control American politicians, I just don't see any laws passed in the USA forcing them to pay a tax for the destruction they caused. Other countries may and should make big tech companies pay for the harm they caused to their economies. In the USA there will be talk about UBI to get votes and citizen support, much like Trump sending tariff reparation checks to citizens that hasn't happened, but I think it will only get worse to be a long term or permanent era of dystopia.

Comment ID #6835213558 02/08/2026 10:50 am

Sam commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

true I'm a published author on amazon and I still got crushed. I wrote it all myself. Thousands and thousands of pages. I wrote it at 3am all night long. Everything now stolen and no pay once server and web/subscription/accountancy (who I don't need any more)/tax (that I won't pay anymore) and all costs paid. I would be better off on benefits. I rage quit.

Comment ID #6835207659 02/08/2026 10:35 am

Sam commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

It's fine to say this now but google has stolen our work and our income now so where is universal income? whilst paying engineers 500k to build more ai machines to steal more

Comment ID #6835206661 02/08/2026 10:33 am

googleisjoke commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

yes i read that, so AI is basically amplifier who has the most power and how he use it

Comment ID #6835194340 02/08/2026 10:00 am

Alireza Naji commented on ChatGPT & Perplexity Treat Structured Data As Text On A Page

It is interesting to note that the code in the image is not a schema at all. The schema should reference the schema.org and use the standard properties and fields of this library in the json ld structure. Even calling this code a schema is wrong. I should add that a json ld structure should also be built based on linked semantic data, otherwise it is of no use to ranking systems.

Comment ID #6835193628 02/08/2026 09:58 am

Rowan commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

If some of you remember, I once shared that I have a friend who’s still into this SEO game, helping clients to rank on Google. We just met for drinks and I asked him about it, and he said it is not good. His clients' sales are in the gutter and they’re demanding answers from him, which he doesn’t have. He, too, found the crazy decoupling pattern going on and the huge divergence in their analytics – “impressions” are increasing but clicks are dropping like a stone. He says he’s in the predicament of whether to tell the truth that SEO is pretty much dead due to AI overviews/mode, or lie his way about SEO and give irrelevant information about improving their on-page content and SEO. When he says that, I couldn’t help feeling his job is like some scammer selling hope. But I do know even if he lies, his clients will lose their patience and fire him. It is even more hilarious when you see SEO subreddit or Black Hat World members still saying “SEO isn’t dead, you just gotta adapt.”

Comment ID #6835186828 02/08/2026 09:38 am

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