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DataDonkey commented on Google Somewhat Comments On Search Console Impressions Dip With 100 Results Change

Matt Cutts was head of web spam. Mueller is a member of Google's Gaslighting Division and really contributes little to the discussion expect for taunting others with his micro-aggressive rants.

Comment ID #6770176057 09/18/2025 07:11 pm

DataDonkey commented on Google Somewhat Comments On Search Console Impressions Dip With 100 Results Change

Thanks for posting the video. It's a long one, but a worthwhile watch from someone who went to Google's Creator Scummit to get gaslighted. I agree with him that we must all fight back anyway we can so if we go down at least we do so kicking and screaming. AI Is Scheming, and Stopping It Won’t Be Easy, OpenAI Study Finds - <a href="https://time.com/7318618/openai-google-gemini-anthropic-claude-scheming/">https://time.com/7318618/openai-google-gemini-anthropic-claude-scheming/</a> <blockquote>New research released yesterday by OpenAI and AI safety organization Apollo Research provides further evidence for a concerning trend: virtually all of today’s best AI systems—including Anthropic’s Claude Opus, Google’s Gemini, and OpenAI’s o3—can engage in “scheming,” or pretending to do what their human developers want, while secretly pursuing different objectives. “Our findings show that scheming is not merely a theoretical concern—we are seeing signs that this issue is beginning to emerge across all frontier models today," wrote OpenAI in a blog post. Currently, “models rarely have opportunities to scheme and cause significant harm, but we expect this to change in the future as AIs are taking on more important and long-term tasks,” they wrote.</blockquote>

Comment ID #6770166936 09/18/2025 06:43 pm

2025 commented on Google Somewhat Comments On Search Console Impressions Dip With 100 Results Change

The page views, clicks, earnings everything's in ditch right now

Comment ID #6770157132 09/18/2025 06:17 pm

Zolux commented on Google Somewhat Comments On Search Console Impressions Dip With 100 Results Change

I found this video and thought everyone would enjoy it... <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ftNbm6zmK0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ftNbm6zmK0</a>

Comment ID #6770107595 09/18/2025 04:25 pm

Ekees SEO commented on Google Somewhat Comments On Search Console Impressions Dip With 100 Results Change

Same experience for over a year now. Had different periods through the year with terrible conversions and normal conversions

Comment ID #6770096308 09/18/2025 04:02 pm

John A. User commented on Google Somewhat Comments On Search Console Impressions Dip With 100 Results Change

They don't bow in greatness, they bow in thanks (for the cash). Trump bows for ego not cash, he has enough. Mehta wasn't interested, he slept through it through it, hoping it would go away through a deal which never came.

Comment ID #6770078473 09/18/2025 03:28 pm

Ken WIlson commented on Google Somewhat Comments On Search Console Impressions Dip With 100 Results Change

The only things make me confused not traffic drop.It seems they also control traffic quality.This week get nothings,But today has several inquiry.

Comment ID #6770069885 09/18/2025 03:11 pm

googleisjoke commented on Google Somewhat Comments On Search Console Impressions Dip With 100 Results Change

completely worthless affiliate links, that no one converts, and yet, they are not bots, imagine the level of control these fuckers have over us, then MAGICALLY one or two days hypped up sales.. imagining this, you can only guess how much $ we are leaving on the table when everything in that 30 months conver in 1/2 days (that should happen on daily basis) I used to check email, and it was a filled with affiliate notifications of sales, it was all packed in one email, one after another. fuck them really, take your sanity elsewhere, these morons are not worth it, as we are obviously of no worth to them.

Comment ID #6770067733 09/18/2025 03:07 pm

googleisjoke commented on Google Somewhat Comments On Search Console Impressions Dip With 100 Results Change

fuck google - 1. I had peak month last month after few months, where I earned that $1000. Then what? I trusted google again (for 100th time) that this time, this fucking time, it gets more stable, at least to a certain degree where it "locks" and brings the consistent $. But no, it changes in a matter of week, or even days, it's like it become an empty desert from nowhere. Now, after 7 days, I'm not seeing a 1 affiliate sale, nothing. All my income comes from stupid ads with $5 RPM, no thanks this bullshit model is done. Unless I see my site jump to crazy heights (google not bing) again I don't invest a fucking peso in this ever again.

Comment ID #6770061953 09/18/2025 02:55 pm

Dark OG commented on Google Somewhat Comments On Search Console Impressions Dip With 100 Results Change

Word. He has terminal TDS nga.

Comment ID #6770045066 09/18/2025 02:24 pm

Barry Schwartz commented on Google Somewhat Comments On Search Console Impressions Dip With 100 Results Change

Thank you! Maybe next year!

Comment ID #6770028895 09/18/2025 01:55 pm

Jeff Hopp commented on Structured Data & Schema Does Not Help With Visibility In AI Search

The core premise in those “schema-only” tests is flawed for real-world SEO. Google has long said don’t put structured data for things that aren’t visible on the page and don’t create blank pages just to hold schema. So proving that “schema-only” doesn’t help AI answers is basically proving that violating Google’s guidance doesn’t work.

Comment ID #6770026173 09/18/2025 01:50 pm

Jamie Antoun commented on Google Somewhat Comments On Search Console Impressions Dip With 100 Results Change

Ah man, would’ve been great to meet you. Enjoy the apples and honey though!

Comment ID #6770021550 09/18/2025 01:42 pm

UncleKrusty commented on Google Somewhat Comments On Search Console Impressions Dip With 100 Results Change

The original reddit post was deleted, but the truth is Google is in a protected class and will be able to get away with nearly everything. American politicians and judges bow to Google. Just look at the missed opportunity Judge Mehta had to force Google to sell Chrome. The ink hasn't even dried on Judge Mehta's ruling and now Google is outfitting Chrome to take even more traffic away from publishers. But many of us expected this to happen, and it just won't stop. Google brings Gemini in Chrome to US users, unveils agentic browsing capabilities, and more <blockquote>Google announced Thursday that it’s rolling out Gemini in Chrome to all Mac and Windows desktop users in the U.S. after previously limiting the capability to Google AI Pro and Google AI Ultra subscribers. The tech giant also announced that it’s bringing agentic capabilities to Chrome in the future, adding its AI Mode search feature to the address bar, launching new Gemini features, using AI to combat AI-generated scams, rolling out automatic password resets, and more.</blockquote>Full story: <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/18/google-brings-gemini-in-chrome-to-us-users-unveils-agentic-browsing-capabilities-and-more/">https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/18/google-brings-gemini-in-chrome-to-us-users-unveils-agentic-browsing-capabilities-and-more/</a>

Comment ID #6770020232 09/18/2025 01:40 pm

Barry Schwartz commented on Google Somewhat Comments On Search Console Impressions Dip With 100 Results Change

Last year I was, but this year it falls on a Jewish holiday - Rosh Hashanah. :(

Comment ID #6770019918 09/18/2025 01:39 pm

Jamie Antoun commented on Google Somewhat Comments On Search Console Impressions Dip With 100 Results Change

@rustybrick:disqus - Will you be at the Brighton SEO Conference, would be super cool to meet u!

Comment ID #6770019295 09/18/2025 01:38 pm

googleisjoke commented on Google Somewhat Comments On Search Console Impressions Dip With 100 Results Change

this is the best comment i read about google and current situation I've said for a long time, Google should share revenue on their results pages with the websites they scrape snippets from. And there should be a class-action to force them to do it. They have been getting away with this forever, scraping other peoples hard work and taking all the reward. At this point, Google Search is in effect a parasitic company at best, and straight up scammers at worst. more here - <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/1llqnpr/google_steals_90_of_my_revenue/">https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/1llqnpr/google_steals_90_of_my_revenue/</a>

Comment ID #6769998152 09/18/2025 12:59 pm

Grey_poupon commented on Google Somewhat Comments On Search Console Impressions Dip With 100 Results Change

https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/360882f62db7324977ee59ff6cb39c85f83ca7c22eec0a825d0814fe99e512b7.png but the day to day analytics with total users is somewhat the same, maybe just a tracking issue

Comment ID #6769993505 09/18/2025 12:51 pm

Jaco_van_Wyk commented on Google Search Testing Dropping 100 Search Results Parameter

Yes, RankTank does indeed produce accurate results, thanks for mentioning it.

Comment ID #6769976123 09/18/2025 12:20 pm

Ste. P commented on Google Somewhat Comments On Search Console Impressions Dip With 100 Results Change

This is a page about SEO not politics dude.

Comment ID #6769974899 09/18/2025 12:17 pm

UncleKrusty commented on Google Somewhat Comments On Search Console Impressions Dip With 100 Results Change

<blockquote>Looking at one client now that just text me saying a ton of calls came in all of a sudden the past 7 days.</blockquote>Were those calls from bill collectors? Google has been and remains dead to us for USA ecommerce.

Comment ID #6769963807 09/18/2025 11:57 am

Ghayoor Abbas Shaikh commented on Google Search Testing Dropping 100 Search Results Parameter

This is changing my results. I am noticing in GSC, in fact, there is also a ranking of one site that is losing its original positions.

Comment ID #6769962023 09/18/2025 11:54 am

Shannon commented on Google Somewhat Comments On Search Console Impressions Dip With 100 Results Change

I'm just a local small business hero 😂 so, my data is much smaller than most of y'all. But, if you look closely (filter Search Console from 9/12 to today), the shift in position for my SEO'd keywords 🤯 Looking at one client now that just text me saying a ton of calls came in all of a sudden the past 7 days. 🤓

Comment ID #6769960497 09/18/2025 11:51 am

UncleKrusty commented on Google Somewhat Comments On Search Console Impressions Dip With 100 Results Change

I'm not sure if Intel bought anyone out, but I'd be surprised if they did even with the tens of billions of tax dollars they received. But I do see the latest on Intel and Nvidia forming a partnership, which helps to explain Nvidia's $5 billion stake in Intel. Shocker: Intel CPUs to Feature Built-In Nvidia RTX Graphics <blockquote>In a twist no one saw coming, Intel and Nvidia are teaming up to put RTX graphics directly into Intel PC chips, likely for laptops. The deal involves Intel and Nvidia jointly developing “multiple generations of custom datacenter and PC products” for both the enterprise and consumer markets. </blockquote>Full story: <a href="https://www.pcmag.com/news/shocker-intel-cpus-to-feature-built-in-nvidia-rtx-graphics">https://www.pcmag.com/news/shocker-intel-cpus-to-feature-built-in-nvidia-rtx-graphics</a>

Comment ID #6769933201 09/18/2025 11:03 am

Sensei commented on Google Somewhat Comments On Search Console Impressions Dip With 100 Results Change

<blockquote>John Mueller from Google somewhat/kinda made a comment, finally, on the impression decreasing with the average position increasing within the Search Console reports. </blockquote>"Somewhat/kinda" are probably also his latest pronouns on Bluecry after being asked enough times if he looks that way due to inbreeding.

Comment ID #6769926840 09/18/2025 10:51 am

John A. User commented on Google Somewhat Comments On Search Console Impressions Dip With 100 Results Change

Don't Intel own the other graphics card manufacturer or was it AMD who bought them, If it was Intel, I'd see storms ahead. Talking of AMD, how are they doing? i agree with what you said, when government tries to object, they'll call on Pressie to tariff us. Feels like a future like Dark Matter or Alien Earth where corporations rule. Starmer is star struck where Trump is business orientated not equality for the people.

Comment ID #6769924228 09/18/2025 10:47 am

John A. User commented on Google Somewhat Comments On Search Console Impressions Dip With 100 Results Change

All visitors are quality, they should not be filtering them out. The only crap visitors in my view are bots and those that use and blockers.

Comment ID #6769920445 09/18/2025 10:40 am

rl commented on Google Somewhat Comments On Search Console Impressions Dip With 100 Results Change

Let's be honest, all the seo tools scrapers were dramatically inflating impressions for everyone. Maybe that really dealt some damage to google's ranking system and they decide to get rid of them. As for AI overviews, do you think anyone believes their crap about sending more and better visitors? It is a pure lie, everybody knows it and I don't think it has anything to do with the ?num=100 issue. And lastly, one of my sites is going down after it kept growing for the last two years. It still has some traffic, still has some returning direct users, but this update cut off the traffic to some of the inner pages and decreased the rankings for others. But I'm still there. The way I view it, since the spam update hit me hard, google thinks something is spammy. But hell, I was #1 in the US for a pretty strong keyword for months and months... even I don't think I deserve that. I deserve the top 10, which is where it has demoted me. While I might think about a thing or two which can be viewed as spammy (but aren't) and knowing that a machine does all the job in deciding this, well, I will adjust.

Comment ID #6769917705 09/18/2025 10:36 am

UncleKrusty commented on Google Somewhat Comments On Search Console Impressions Dip With 100 Results Change

Once Big Tech has a strong foothold in the UK, politicians won't do anything to harm them and if regulators get in their way they too will be stopped. Look to the USA as a preview of what's to come - big taxpayer investments, much higher utility bills, environmental laws ignored/changed for Big Tech projects, etc. In the USA the Trump admin spent $10 billion in tax dollars to buy into Intel. Now Nvidia is buying a $5 billion stake in Intel. This is in addition to the $8.5 billion in direct cash Intel was awarded with the CHIPS Act and also the $2.3 billion Intel received in state (Ohio) subsidies which included a $600 million cash grant Intel could use to construct its new chip factory. The best part is Intel is still struggling and their new chip factory is 10-15 years behind scheduled completion. I wouldn't be surprised if Nvidia ends up owning Intel, with taxpayers burned badly, when all is said and done.

Comment ID #6769908542 09/18/2025 10:20 am

UncleKrusty commented on Google Somewhat Comments On Search Console Impressions Dip With 100 Results Change

<blockquote>many, are seeing a noticeable decline in desktop impressions, resulting in a sharp increase in average position. Many speculate this is being we are no longer seeing scraper tools inject fake impressions and keywords into Google Search Console by faking searchers</blockquote>I'm no expert, but maybe the drop in impressions is at least somewhat legitimate. Google's spam update has dealt another crushing blow to legitimate publishers, so it only makes sense their impressions will drop like a brick just like their Google traffic has. Another theory is Google is no longer counting impressions that are out of the user's view. With ads, AIO and refinement boxes consuming so much of the screen, even #1 ranked placements can be out of view without scrolling and shouldn't be counted as an impression unless actually viewed. We also get a lot of googlezip pre-fetch hits that should not count as an impression or visit. IMO, the data supplied by GSC and GA has no value due to its unreliability and their likely role in helping to cover up Google's continued assault on publisher rights.

Comment ID #6769896700 09/18/2025 09:58 am

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