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John A. User commented on Tailwind CSS Lets Go Of 75% Of Engineering Team After 40% Traffic Drop To Docs From Google

<a href="https://www.trueup.io/layoffs">https://www.trueup.io/layoffs</a> Just the start, Tailwind if its the same one as the link, they got rid of 3 people. Devastating for each individual.

Comment ID #6820687403 01/08/2026 02:18 pm

FokGoogle commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

Even huge sums like a few billion dollars is chump change for Google. They don't care about this at all.

Comment ID #6820668177 01/08/2026 01:46 pm

Ekees SEO commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

Almost true. Most old sites, with not a massive authority rating. My sites are battered, especially the revenue, traffic is relatively, vaguely ok.

Comment ID #6820620863 01/08/2026 12:26 pm

UncleKrusty commented on Tailwind CSS Lets Go Of 75% Of Engineering Team After 40% Traffic Drop To Docs From Google

I saw the news as well. Angi claims AI efficiency is the reason why they're reducing their workforce by roughly 12%.

Comment ID #6820616316 01/08/2026 12:18 pm

snuffy commented on Microsoft Hiring Senior Product Manager To Fight Spam On Bing & Copilot

"Very" Senior.... heh... people like me in their 70s and 80s ought to apply for this job. We don't have time to piss around with spam.

Comment ID #6820609998 01/08/2026 12:07 pm

UncleKrusty commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

Google needs more money to pay for the lawsuit they just settled regarding AI being the cause of teen suicides/self harm. It was also reported that Google is facing a class action lawsuit for enabling AI training in Gmail, and other Google services, without notice to users and making it willfully/intentionally difficult for users to disable. All the more reason for users to abandon Gmail addresses and for businesses to reject email from Gmail. <b>Google Faces Gmail Lawsuit Over Hidden AI Training Settings</b> <blockquote>The tech giant now faces a class-action lawsuit after enabling “Smart Features” across all user accounts without notification—and most people had no idea it was happening. The Daily Mail report on Jan. 5 revealed that Google had activated these settings for Gmail, Chat, and Meet users, granting AI models unprecedented access to scan personal communications. Users must manually disable the settings in multiple hidden locations to opt out—a process so complex that even security experts initially got it wrong.</blockquote>Full story: <a href="https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-google-gmail-hidden-ai-training-settings/">https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-google-gmail-hidden-ai-training-settings/</a>

Comment ID #6820603763 01/08/2026 11:56 am

Circeus commented on Don't Create Separate Google Business Profile For Department Listings

Hey Barry, you seem to be confusing departments and the "located inside" function in that twitter thread. The one example of true departments I know of near me actually is displaying for me rn so to be fair I don't know what greg is talking about either! This Walmart has a "walmart wireless" set up as a department: <a href="https://local.google.com/place?id=6904871995190103878&use=srp">https://local.google.com/place?id=6904871995190103878&use=srp</a>

Comment ID #6820595882 01/08/2026 11:42 am

Jacob Hurwith commented on Tailwind CSS Lets Go Of 75% Of Engineering Team After 40% Traffic Drop To Docs From Google

Angi had to let go a of many engineers yesterday as well Barry.

Comment ID #6820579265 01/08/2026 11:13 am

Ted (or Big T) commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

Holy shit (sorry). AdSense drop 30 percent (than previous week), traffic drop 30-40 percent (than previous week). What happened?

Comment ID #6820571791 01/08/2026 11:00 am

Golden Phoenix commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

AdSense earnings tend to drop like a rock as soon as we hit the new year. It has happened to me pretty much every year but of course we don't earn much these days since traffic is gone

Comment ID #6820528991 01/08/2026 09:41 am

Dollarboy commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

Yes, 70% drop in Adsense earnings, eCPM, RPM since January 1

Comment ID #6820511843 01/08/2026 09:07 am

BM commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

Can anyone explain why Google Analytics is showing this as traffic? https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c72194722a60a0184d056ee085438cbdf81bd94a06529d41420ed3fc3a928f61.png

Comment ID #6820473084 01/08/2026 07:30 am

googleisjoke commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

true blogging stinks just like google

Comment ID #6820470045 01/08/2026 07:21 am

Sam commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

They forcing advertisors to use AI and they don't want to. There was one guy on reddit who lost 3k with 0 leads and is asking why a few years ago this yielded good leads. They changed the ad bidding and now they can't ROI due to all the AI slop.

Comment ID #6820433362 01/08/2026 05:08 am

Sam commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

ditto

Comment ID #6820433008 01/08/2026 05:06 am

Sam commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

It's not just news vertical it is every vertical. This pattern is seen throughout the internet. Old sites are being destroyed.

Comment ID #6820432911 01/08/2026 05:06 am

Sam commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

Sorry to hear about that. There seems to be something they are doing. I am wondering if the Google algo is now just AI and it has messed up. All I am saying is that they just need to rollback to the time when advertisors were happy and making money and so were we. I honestly don't think google are making anything near as what they use to.

Comment ID #6820431592 01/08/2026 05:00 am

googleisjoke commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/SEO/comments/1q76hnt/unnoficial_google_algo_update/">https://www.reddit.com/r/SEO/comments/1q76hnt/unnoficial_google_algo_update/</a>

Comment ID #6820421525 01/08/2026 04:14 am

googleisjoke commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

my site also dropped on 7th by 700 clicks in one day, so it's across everything that is out there, it will go up as i know it after few days, if not, then let them suck a biiiig balls, and move on weird is now if it happened because I transfered it to another buyer on hosting, and site was down for few hours, but i don't think, just that drop is happened shortly after giving access to a buyer,

Comment ID #6820412662 01/08/2026 03:29 am

Ekees SEO commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

What kind of site and vertical?

Comment ID #6820403281 01/08/2026 02:36 am

Daniel commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

Same situation today. Start of the day even weaker than yesterday. About 15% drop compared to yesterday which had a huge drop.

Comment ID #6820393381 01/08/2026 01:36 am

clone21 commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

Its not not working properly, Google has an algo to dynamically change adsense earnings for all people, its very sneaky, but if you are in bussiness for enough time, you can feel it.

Comment ID #6820348963 01/07/2026 10:10 pm

n1lss commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

Our well established brand, 15+ years old, lost almost all our top 5 rankings today that we've had as long as I can remember. Many of our keywords are now on page 2. Whatever they did today was big for us, and this is after just coming out with a nice bump in the Dec. core update. Layoffs incoming if it sticks, thanks Google.

Comment ID #6820311456 01/07/2026 08:25 pm

Rowan commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

Oh look, now AI is being used to scam small-time businesses/sellers: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/isthisAI/comments/1q5xzyj/i_sell_perfumes_online_a_customer_ordered_a_set/">https://www.reddit.com/r/isthisAI/comments/1q5xzyj/i_sell_perfumes_online_a_customer_ordered_a_set/</a>

Comment ID #6820310107 01/07/2026 08:22 pm

DataDonkey commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

Ranking is dead because all the Googleshit that appears above it. Sorry for those losing money with Adsense, but we all know how Greedle is - if anyone is making money they want to take it. Talking about money, it looks like Greedle co-founder Larry Page fears the California wealth tax and moving to avoid paying the tax. <b>Google co-founder leaves California amid wealth tax fears</b> - <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-co-founder-leaves-california-114240388.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall">https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-co-founder-leaves-california-114240388.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall</a> <blockquote>Larry Page, the Google co-founder and world’s second-richest person, has reportedly left California amid concerns about a wealth tax on billionaires. Mr Page has moved the registrations of several entities, including his family office and flying car business from California to Delaware, according to filings with the states. He has also personally moved out of the state ahead of a potential vote on a 5pc wealth tax, according to Business Insider, which first reported the move.</blockquote>

Comment ID #6820267513 01/07/2026 06:30 pm

Jacques Bouchard commented on Google Adds LLMs.txt To Its Web Sites For Other Reasons

Google Added LLMs.txt To It's Web Sites For Other Reasons Than Discovery - *its

Comment ID #6820237417 01/07/2026 05:23 pm

Hunar commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

Pretty much what i'm seeing across all my sites today as well.

Comment ID #6820220587 01/07/2026 04:52 pm

Dark Red Owl commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

Google is conducting a special operation to purge the people who created the web. In the beginning, we were reporters and editors, we had a paper newspaper and a website, we had ads from local businesses, we were happy that Google showed us in the search results. Then Google became the intermediary between us and the advertisers. Google took over the advertising market in every city. It threw crumbs at us and made us grateful. It imposed vague rules, the purpose of which was to keep us under control. The last core update came to destroy us and leave some copy-paste sites 1 2 years old.

Comment ID #6820180780 01/07/2026 03:45 pm

SpXmtdd commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

Holy fuck... Traffic = zero for all sites

Comment ID #6820169723 01/07/2026 03:28 pm

Wizz bob commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

Reality is most traffic goes to Google Ads and AI answers which dominate the search results. Also the fact is less people use Google and use tools like ChatGPT to find answers, information.

Comment ID #6820127259 01/07/2026 02:19 pm

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