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Never Paint Again UK commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heats Up October 7th and 8th

Search over the past couple of months is terrible and we are seeing actual customer enquiries for services we do not even sell, or advertise, and from areas and countries that we do not even have a presence in. As the old saying goes "If it 'aint broke, don't try and fix it.........."

Comment ID #6780499102 10/10/2025 02:29 am

Magaunited commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heats Up October 7th and 8th

They have to boost their quarterly earnings incrementally... increase the share price until ultimately search is just one gigantic AI superstore full of merchants who can afford to play their game. Affiliate marketing is DEAD.

Comment ID #6780421904 10/09/2025 08:40 pm

Averie Sunshine commented on Google Testing Improved Recipe AI Overviews

I like seeing my recipe in the scroll bar as it whips through the various muffins and my peers' and that we are being linked, not just having everything spelled out without clicking over.

Comment ID #6780408902 10/09/2025 07:58 pm

Sensei commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heats Up October 7th and 8th

It's true that big tech already has too much influence over politicians. The tech bros are always ready to pull the strings of their useful paid off idiot puppets depending on who is currently in office. That's hilarious and I nearly forgot about that literal shit painting of him. Every guy at Google definitely consider it a masterpiece, especially since they're already so used to pushing in each others shit in the first place.

Comment ID #6780408325 10/09/2025 07:56 pm

DataDonkey commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heats Up October 7th and 8th

As a matter of national security, I don't think any foreign national should be allowed to run an American tech company. But nobody in Government gives a shit. Look at that CEO of Intel with ties to the CCP. Trump called on him to quit, then back tracked then Trump buys a 10% stake in the company with our tax dollars. I sure would like to hang that stinky picture of Eric Shit up on the wall in the oval office so everyone stepping foot in there could get a whiff. <b>We talked to the guy who made a painting of Google's Eric Schmidt out of poop to find out why</b> - <a href="https://www.cantonrep.com/story/special/2015/05/25/we-talked-to-guy-who/34483405007/">https://www.cantonrep.com/story/special/2015/05/25/we-talked-to-guy-who/34483405007/</a> <blockquote>A portrait of Eric Schmidt smiled back at me. Except Schmidt was made of feces, and was one of three done in a series of "shitheads" by the artist Katsu. </blockquote>

Comment ID #6780406060 10/09/2025 07:48 pm

Sensei commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heats Up October 7th and 8th

<blockquote>Who are the right hands to handle AI? The Google Crime Syndicate that has been convicted of multiple antitrust crimes and run by a CEO who worked at the same McKinsey & Company that helped fuel the opioid epidemic?</blockquote>Spot on and excellent questions that nobody yet has good answers for. It's a classic case of who watches the watchers? Obviously big tech can't police itself, and corrupt AF big gov't is the last entity of authority to be trusted to control AI.

Comment ID #6780402964 10/09/2025 07:37 pm

DataDonkey commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heats Up October 7th and 8th

Since Google is engaged in a form of digital discrimination (aka economic crimes against humanity), I find reverse digital discrimination to be an excellent motivator. Those who use anything Google and violate our policies are given the same merciless treatment Google has given us.

Comment ID #6780401695 10/09/2025 07:33 pm

DataDonkey commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heats Up October 7th and 8th

Eric Shit is chiming in on AI again: <b>Google’s ex-CEO Eric Schmidt shares dire warning of homicidal AI models</b> - <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/10/09/business/googles-ex-ceo-eric-schmidt-shares-warns-of-homicidal-ai-models/">https://nypost.com/2025/10/09/business/googles-ex-ceo-eric-schmidt-shares-warns-of-homicidal-ai-models/</a> <blockquote>Artificial intelligence models are vulnerable to hackers and could even be trained to off humans if they fall into the wrong hands, ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt warned.</blockquote>Who are the right hands to handle AI? The Google Crime Syndicate that has been convicted of multiple antitrust crimes and run by a CEO who worked at the same McKinsey & Company that helped fuel the opioid epidemic?

Comment ID #6780391230 10/09/2025 06:58 pm

DataDonkey commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heats Up October 7th and 8th

<blockquote>I blocked all of them.</blockquote>We did the same at least ten years ago, so they aren't the problem. I'm talking legit visits, with IP addresses from legit ISPs, who navigate the site like a human and some even try to checkout.

Comment ID #6780374440 10/09/2025 06:07 pm

Sensei commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heats Up October 7th and 8th

Quoting that X link: <blockquote>Should @Google just "rip the bandaid" and make Gemini AI Mode the default search experience? </blockquote>They might as well just get it the fuck over with. It's not like all this shit isn't leading up to GAI as their default search anyways. All this tedious foreplay Google is doing is pointless when everyone knows these sadistic pieces of shit are going to put it away dry and rough in the end.

Comment ID #6780356722 10/09/2025 05:20 pm

googleisjoke commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heats Up October 7th and 8th

simply sell your site, it will give your brain new air, so you don't constantly think about this.

Comment ID #6780354269 10/09/2025 05:13 pm

2025 commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heats Up October 7th and 8th

"sharp rise in G traffic yesterday" - traffic from which country? I'm seeing very low real-time traffic actually

Comment ID #6780340030 10/09/2025 04:41 pm

Sensei commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heats Up October 7th and 8th

💯

Comment ID #6780320775 10/09/2025 03:57 pm

ddddd15 commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heats Up October 7th and 8th

I miss Wise Cat. Hope he's doing well.

Comment ID #6780303614 10/09/2025 03:19 pm

v2.0 commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heats Up October 7th and 8th

Came here for first time in months for two reasons. ①sharp rise in G traffic yesterday (I know it's only temporary) , ②Sonetthing bizarre going on - SERP are in Chinese language when I curtail to a specific timeframe. Without it the usual mix of Japanese and Engiish results. That has happened only once before in 20 years and it was in the last five years - 2022 at a guess, I'm not good at remembering dates the way wise cat was!

Comment ID #6780300863 10/09/2025 03:13 pm

TPG commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heats Up October 7th and 8th

ill be nice. stop building "foreign country" links from "foreign country" link farms.

Comment ID #6780299089 10/09/2025 03:09 pm

TPG commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heats Up October 7th and 8th

Stop being a lazy POS - Keep learning and searching for the next shiny object. The reason why your an SEO is becasuse you found that shiny object and told yourself you can do it. You need to totally restructure your habits to go looking for that shiny object again. See who is winning and find out why. Sorry if that sounded harsh, but sometimes reality is the motivation we need

Comment ID #6780293563 10/09/2025 02:57 pm

Golden Phoenix commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heats Up October 7th and 8th

I just used CSF, blocked ALL traffic from China, HK, and SG. Simple. I make 0 money from that traffic anyway. Who cares. My site is for English speaking folks. I don't think even real visitors from China will miss my site

Comment ID #6780266105 10/09/2025 02:00 pm

Sensei commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heats Up October 7th and 8th

That's good to always block ruskies too. There's really no upside to letting any shithole country bots or trolls on any small publisher site. They're either scraping content or up to something else just as shady.

Comment ID #6780263950 10/09/2025 01:55 pm

Stancu Print commented on Google Added Google NotebookLM To Googlebot User-Triggered Fetchers

Not really, now LLMs, take reliable sources more recently but if you add NotebookLM to Google, chances are huge that you would have known earlier that this happened at Google. Well done!

Comment ID #6780258062 10/09/2025 01:43 pm

Stancu Print commented on Google Added Google NotebookLM To Googlebot User-Triggered Fetchers

It is also important to tell you why, you will practically be cited in LLMs directly from your source, if you add it to NotebookLM. Say a printing company that is already the first one in Bing and very ok in Google right on the first page. Continue with sources in NotebookLM, and you will be or your content CITED in AI

Comment ID #6780257531 10/09/2025 01:42 pm

Ted (or Big T) commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heats Up October 7th and 8th

I wrote it. Problem EU

Comment ID #6780256630 10/09/2025 01:40 pm

OKmann commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heats Up October 7th and 8th

Anyone else seeing a drastic rise in traffic attributed to direct in GA4 over the last year?

Comment ID #6780233427 10/09/2025 12:49 pm

2025 commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heats Up October 7th and 8th

The first page is also complete mess right now based on my niche queries.

Comment ID #6780231309 10/09/2025 12:45 pm

Dimitris Abrazis commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heats Up October 7th and 8th

have you tried googling anything the last months. Crappy results, second page are completely irrelevant. Google has a huge problem. A couple of days ago we had a roundtable with google. We were telling them that traffic had declined and they told us that they push more traffic to publishers again and again. Which is a lie. Everyone on the roundtable was screaming.

Comment ID #6780230072 10/09/2025 12:42 pm

UncleKrusty commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heats Up October 7th and 8th

Being in ecommerce, we've been blocking all the major headache countries (China, Hong Kong, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Taiwan, Ukraine, etc.) for years. There's just too much scraping and hacking attempts from those countries. I'd be surprised if most domestic focused sellers in the UK, USA and/or Canada don't do the same.

Comment ID #6780227339 10/09/2025 12:37 pm

2025 commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heats Up October 7th and 8th

Someone had posted "Traffic is dead. Index problem, Discovery traffic is terrible. No new articles, showing old." - Kindly let us know here if this issue gets solved. I have been experiencing something similar, indexing issue with no new articles being reflected in the SERPs while some old posts too have vanished from the SERPs. I am unable to figure out what's actually happening.

Comment ID #6780225895 10/09/2025 12:33 pm

John A. User commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heats Up October 7th and 8th

I block or try to block Russia and China. While China has legitimate traffic, it's tiny compared to its fake traffic, and I'll take the AdSense hit for it.

Comment ID #6780220303 10/09/2025 12:21 pm

Barry Schwartz commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heats Up October 7th and 8th

We are old.

Comment ID #6780220121 10/09/2025 12:21 pm

John A. User commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heats Up October 7th and 8th

It is demotivating for me but unlike others here, e.g. @Clare , its not my primary income, just pocket money. THose who it is the primary, I'd hate to be in their boots. My only regret is that I have had my primary site since 2003, its a few months older than Barry's site, yep, show's our ages. Back to the regret, I never monetarised it like now until quite late. Its only a hobby for me.

Comment ID #6780219291 10/09/2025 12:19 pm

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