Below are the most recent 30 comments. I try to keep it clean of comment spam, but some times things
get through and it takes me several hours to get to it. So please excuse any of that comment spam.
Same here, Greece down since 11th July. It started recovering in November and on December huge drop and now dead... From the top on my niche to this...
Same here, but my competitor doesnt seems to get traffic as he uses AI to write every article in order to not pay editors. He even copy paste the names of the sources from AI, which include my website, of course without active link. So you read the article and under some paragraphs it just mentions the name of my website. This is crazy and he ranks higher
I mean, just have normal work + some other hustle, but why not building this for a very long time? it can really pay off, and site could get liek 20x / 30x multiple evaluation at some point, so if it makes like 1K a month, you get a $30K
this is my AI site bro , doing kinda well on google + bing also do well
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e6ff1c1f738b4e45f47ad5983f6c4e321b259e304830221595ca8ba33d36b206.png
This is bleak, literally every channel has come to a standstill for me, paid search, organic, paid social.
I've come to the conclusion that Google actually don't understand how organic algorithm changes impact other channels, including Google Ads. The algorithm has been built and continuously developed by so many different people for decades, that they have simply lost track of how interconnected it all is. There is a clear correlation with all other channel performance coming to a halt when there is organic movement. I see this across industry leaders and across fresh new websites.
I've been having Gemini write EATT SHIT articles (I edit them) and Bing loves them. Most of them easily rank 1, 2 or 3 in Bing. Since Bing has about 4% market share in search, I just need to create 25x as much content. Works great so far!
I'm sure to be attacked in the comments for this. However, Google SEO is dead (especially for blogs) and taking the moral high ground doesn't pay the bills.
If you can't beat them, join them!
This is delusional.
You can't expect to build a business off a search engine with a 7% market share lol.
If you don't have a plan to get Google traffic, you don't have a viable plan for a website.
<blockquote>these people can't make up their mind</blockquote>Google's mind was made up once they launched AIO. At the end of this road will be AI Mode and likely no organic results unless deemed absolutely necessary (medical advice, financial advice, etc.). I see the gradual destruction in organic traffic continuing until it's gone.
IMO everything you said regarding "it will never change, it will never get better, etc." will hold true.
the only viable optino to me in a ultra long run is this - assuming bing will treat sites the same way and rank them as it ranks now, we can build websites for 10+ years and get it to the point where it actually makes decent money for a living, so we could get it to like 50K visits, and be good, all bing, no google
<blockquote>I don't know why anyone here would use Google after getting repeatedly knifed in the back by them, gaslighted and lied to repeatedly. No way will I give them my searches</blockquote>
My income relies on being able to game Google results.... it makes sense for me to use Google products personally as I see random things that work or don't work in relation to my day job. It's info I don't have at all if I'm going to use Duckduckgo. None of my customers use anything but Google.
as suspected, traffic back down to crap. these people can't make up their mind. shuffle shuffle shuffle. they clearly have ai running show and it's doing a horrible job. no business can operate with this volatility and inconsistency.
it will never change.
it will never get better.
google will never get it right.
google will never make it right.
the entire ecosystem is rapidly dying.
F the SEOs who will say "you must be doing something wrong"
bunch of grifters at this point trying to justify their existence. they'll be gone soon too.
I don't know why anyone here would use Google after getting repeatedly knifed in the back by them, gaslighted and lied to repeatedly. No way will I give them my searches, analytics data from our site, money for their ripoff ads, etc. I wouldn't even give Google the sweat off my armpits.
Just like we are dead to Google, then Google should be dead to us.
for us, it's always shuffling. Google is just unusable in general. I use Bing/chat for search. Some use Perplexity, some use Grok. I am not saying people should. But I can't find jack on Google. Forget my own site. I can't find ANYTHING that I search for. haha. You are better off typing random characters in your browser's address bar and see where it lands. I feel terrible for people who relied on Google to keep their business afloat.
When a big fire breaks out and then gets extinguished, smoke continues to rise from it. In the same way, this “smoke” causes small changes in the SERP (Search Engine Results Page).
Blusky is the new Twitter cause X ain't even a thang and I wholeheartedly agree to that. Love that blusky was used here and great connecting with all of them until more people join. I'm sure in a few years I'll say, back when Blusky was cool which is RN. 🔥
I just saw an AI stick that has trained on our data that users can buy and have the entire internet offline. I will watch it on bbc catch up. I am actually loosing the will guys. Why was this ever released in the first place without regulation.
For those in the UK, you might be interested in "AI Confidential" with Dr. Hannah Fry on BB2 9pm on Mondays. For those in the US, you might catch on BBC America.