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Bobby commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Spiking October 10th

Not happening is correct. I doubt I could even generate a dream of it. Long long long long way off.

Comment ID #6569189097 10/12/2024 09:07 am

Bobby commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Spiking October 10th

ASK SEOs If you use a few hundred words of text shared between your domain and your Facebook page, will Google accredit it as original content to your publication still? Also, if you repeat the process 1,000 times, does anything change?

Comment ID #6569186317 10/12/2024 09:01 am

Golden Phoenix commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Spiking October 10th

So X is offering a discount for premium membership. Is it worth it? I honestly think X may be the only platform that allows for serious traffic without asking you to pay. You just have to be very active, build a following and comment on other people's posts, promote others, so they promote you. Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest are just limiting reach for big money. $50 for a year of subscription on X seems like a good deal at least for a 1 year experiment?

Comment ID #6569182378 10/12/2024 08:53 am

Golden Phoenix commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Spiking October 10th

I have never paid that much for anything. I paid $40, $50 for Themeforest or Codecanyon stuff. Unfortunately, without a monthly payment, they won't stay in business. Think about it. Let's say you make a plugin and sell it for $300. Even with 10k paid members, that's $3m lifetime. You have costs for upgrades, security patches, maintenance, team members. It is just not profitable in the long run. Developing new plugins that keep making money when all webmasters are broke is not viable. Then you have AI that can now develop plugins for cheap. Cursor or Replit. This ecosystem is soon going to fall apart.

Comment ID #6569181617 10/12/2024 08:51 am

Jason commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Spiking October 10th

Yeah. This is moving content to an established domain. So a partnership with an authority domain could work, but that means selling off content or buying a big domain (that ain't happening as we are all broke)

Comment ID #6569177807 10/12/2024 08:43 am

Sayani commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Spiking October 10th

I was hopeful that finance niche might work out in my favor if I started one...but now that every niche has been witnessing mixed results I'm not understanding whether I should wait longer before starting one

Comment ID #6569175113 10/12/2024 08:37 am

Ran Damme commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Spiking October 10th

I follow the finance niche and I've seen some finance blogs get killed by the HCU, some get a significant boost, and some get marginally hit but are still getting decent traffic although not close to the peak levels of 2018-2021. Traffic has been throttled for many of them. It's hard to pinpoint why some sites got hit and some didn't considering many are similar age, similar authority, and similar articles.

Comment ID #6569168887 10/12/2024 08:23 am

DataDonkey commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Spiking October 10th

In Google's own words: <blockquote>We could increase queries quite easily in the short term in user negative ways (turn off spell correction, turn off ranking improvements, place refinements all over the page). If we, as a company, want to go there we should discuss that. It is possible that there are trade offs here between different kinds of user negativity caused by engagement hacking.</blockquote> <a href="https://www.justice.gov/d9/2023-11/417557.pdf">https://www.justice.gov/d9/2023-11/417557.pdf</a>

Comment ID #6569168042 10/12/2024 08:21 am

Sayani commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Spiking October 10th

If you dont mind sharing kindly let me know the niches that didnt witness even the slightest recovery

Comment ID #6569167049 10/12/2024 08:19 am

D0mD0m commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Spiking October 10th

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSGVk2KVokQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSGVk2KVokQ</a> nothing new, but he has a large audience.

Comment ID #6569165692 10/12/2024 08:15 am

John D commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Spiking October 10th

It was decent, like average rankings were 32 and it went to 21 and was still rising during the 2 weeks but the reversal ruined it all.

Comment ID #6569157533 10/12/2024 07:55 am

Mark commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Spiking October 10th

If she's not going to show any actual proof her tweets are about as much use as that other guy I better not mention or I'll got my posts removed again. What other industry can you get away with this nonsense in? "heres all the proof you should give me $10k! Yes I've censored it all so absolutely nothing can be verified, but trust me!"

Comment ID #6569155258 10/12/2024 07:49 am

Mark commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Spiking October 10th

They are 301'ing other stuff too. It's a bit of a stretch to say 'traffic back' though. Here's their original site, Americasrestaurant: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/26281c2216dacbb74b3941a19239f44c15b12eb5c11f49a9ceced70ca895f437.png And here is the one they're 301'ing to: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/23667f6acdf309021cc75a9fe8aee801cd66dca612ce038a2e54935c92c2339c.png Given both how low quality the content is, and how low quality the user experience is, I'm definitely thinking this is one guy who should listen to Mu or Danny or whoever it was that said "maybe you've had a good run and thats it" This site isn't going to make a recovery, imo

Comment ID #6569146722 10/12/2024 07:26 am

Tushar Grover commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Spiking October 10th

Americasrestaurant which I shared earlier has 301 to gustomeadow aged expired domain, and is going up in it's ranking and traffic back, do you think this will last long to get back rankings and traffic to previous levels

Comment ID #6569134637 10/12/2024 06:51 am

Sayani commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Spiking October 10th

The way you have noted thsoe points...you can present a perfect article....n I agree u can add plenty of other points to it...I can't like a nation when it lacks ethics..n I used to chat with plenty of Chinese people back in 2015-17 n got mixed reviews from them regarding their nation...ik these citizens can't b trusted 100% based on their opinions..but again when u talk with them regularly u get to know abt their culture...lifestyle...country based policies a lot

Comment ID #6569111168 10/12/2024 05:36 am

Sayani commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Spiking October 10th

You are one WISE person in disguise of a cat for sure...excellent points noted here

Comment ID #6569109655 10/12/2024 05:31 am

Sayani commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Spiking October 10th

What's sad alrdy most of us r witnessing financial troubles...services charging more from us is adding to the trouble

Comment ID #6569109152 10/12/2024 05:30 am

Sayani commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Spiking October 10th

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Comment ID #6569107774 10/12/2024 05:25 am

Sayani commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Spiking October 10th

Entertainment recovered? N is the comeback proving impressive enough?

Comment ID #6569105806 10/12/2024 05:18 am

actualart commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Spiking October 10th

This October update is something much worse than HCU because sites that actually were up during HCU are down now also. Everything is down (other than YouTube and Reddit of course).

Comment ID #6569102505 10/12/2024 05:06 am

Bobby commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Spiking October 10th

Japan is a great country with nice people but Japan has had no ecnonomic growth (US defintion) since the market crash of the 90s. Its not nice people who make money; it's conceited people. Donald Trump is best for the stock market without a doubt.

Comment ID #6569101981 10/12/2024 05:05 am

Bobby commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Spiking October 10th

No country has produced more economic growth (US definition) than China over the last 30 years. Moreover, no country has grown with more inequality than China over the last 30 years. The narrative American asset managers create regarding China and its communism is false. It is an authoritarian system currently. That's not automatically bad. It becomes bad when a bad actor gets into power. As Albert Einstein put it, genius tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels. My Baidu traffic has never been better. It has opened up its search engine in my niche quite a lot over the last few years to Western sites. And it's only getting better for me. My traffic stats are China China China. China under Xi will grow well in my opinion. I don't think he's a bad person. What happens after that is anyone's guess.

Comment ID #6569100673 10/12/2024 05:00 am

Bobby commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Spiking October 10th

I don't think new domains are any better off. This issue looks related to authority.

Comment ID #6569099096 10/12/2024 04:54 am

John D commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Spiking October 10th

Stats for my 17 sites. 6 sites recovered from HCU during August Core Update for 2 weeks. Everything reversed again on 5th September. Everything is down as of now once again. The niche that recovered from HCU were Entertainment, Automotive, Politics, Sports.

Comment ID #6569098754 10/12/2024 04:53 am

John A. User commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Spiking October 10th

They're trying to work out which useless site forces the user to search again and therefore bring in more money. The more they can keep people on Google, the more they can make money. Gone are the days of the "Page Plan", that is to find people the site that contains the information that a person wants and get them off Google quickly. I can't find an exact source but have seen it in the past. Now, the Investors have taken over and its to keep people on the site. The "People Also Ask" is meant as an incentive to keep asking questions until they (you) click on an advert. In the court case, it was said that Google could change the rankings so that bad grammar etc could find their way to the top of the results so that advertised results would be clicked on. @codecommander:disqus or @unclekrusty:disqus can point it out better than I can.

Comment ID #6569096211 10/12/2024 04:45 am

Sayani commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Spiking October 10th

My case adsence revenue is 90% down

Comment ID #6569092356 10/12/2024 04:31 am

Sayani commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Spiking October 10th

I can feel it too..yes it's getting terrible...good that u have created a list of priorities ...n I hope ull get them done bit by bit...being honest I don't think this situation will improve too soon...so it's better u switch to sm other occupation too...u r based in Delhi so I think food industry will work just fine...do whatever is necessary to build wealth as of now ...otherwise life will bcm more terrible

Comment ID #6569092025 10/12/2024 04:30 am

H_SEO commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Spiking October 10th

I'm just seeing some useless website that they are on the 1st page. and in 3 days, they disappear and google replaces some other useless sites... well ... why :)

Comment ID #6569082784 10/12/2024 03:57 am

Bummy Bummy commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Spiking October 10th

50% down on adsense revenue from last year and wondering if Google even want my site in the world anymore or they want me to stop working on the site and get a job, the AI is saying crazy things to users in my niche that don't make sense.

Comment ID #6569080775 10/12/2024 03:50 am

Jewish Cat Who Does S̶E̶O̶ commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Spiking October 10th

Thanks for sharing, friend. Another proof that it is pointless to continue working on or saving your HCU-hit site. Just move on to a new domain, or better yet, ride the parasite SEOs.... I really regretted not riding parasite SEOs when it first came to prominence in 2021-2022s... I thought Google will fix it as I still believed in them. It is now 2024 and we're still seeing it.

Comment ID #6569075068 10/12/2024 03:28 am

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