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.
made my day!!!
Great to see others taking a stance against such cases because otherwise 99.99% of people here would have cried about this sad story too.
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Maybe stop selling links to spam gambling sites - https://worldtravelfamily.com/options-to-earn-money-while-travelling/
That's going to help more than any of those non-fixes you posted about on your blog.
It is so bad now that I miss the hackers and bots trying to brute-force their way to my website...
At least their visits tell me that they found my website via Google Search or something =')
Or maybe info are ditching too because of how BING has tied up ChatGPT to everywhere, Office, the keyboard, the taskbar etc. Sadly @DataDonkey , it might be unrelated to search results, it maybe because of how Microsoft is pushing it and maybe they don't care who provides the results. Glad your seeing increased sales for whatever reason though.
For commercial high-volume, high-CPC keywords, your infographic approximates reality quite well. I've just tried out the keyword <i>Der beste Treppenlift</i> (the best stairlift; you know; these moving chairs installed in a staircase to help impaired people reach the 2nd floor). As these one-man retrofit elevators are fairly expensive and its vendors can get high margins on them, this keyword is extremely competitive. So there is some motivation to employ grey-hat (or even black-hat) SEO in order to rank better.
Results:
🕱 #1 thru #3 are sponsored and mostly lead to well-known manufacturers (#1 & #3). One of them leads to a so-called "product review" website.
🕱 On the right, there is a Google Shopping box. Also sponsored.
🕱 #4 presumes to offer independent advice, but its text is overoptimised blah-blah, and its links lead to so-called product comparison portals.
🕱 #5 is a product comparison conducted by a big private TV station. Independent? Maybe yes.
🕱 #6 thru #9 remind me of #4.
🕱 Finally, #10 is a well-known, independent (yeah, really!) product comparison portal.
Conclusion: For someone looking for solid advice on which stairlift to buy, only two (#5 and #10) search results are valuable.
Look to the picture where it says they are reviewing the data for April. Despite this, we see very strong sales from other search engines while Google remains shit. So maybe buyers are the ones ditching Google and not those searching for information. And the problem for information sites is there may be thousands of competitors trying to rank for the same keywords and is therefore statistically difficult to achieve and retain good ranks. But in this modern day, Google's spamming of the ads and People Also Piss box are all that rank for us.
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Bing is just as bad as Google, my bing impressions keep increasing but only for their knowledge panel which lead to no clicks to my site, since all the info is now on their search page.
The change simply means that, in the banner text, there will no longer be a reference to your privacy policy to revoke consent.
It also doesn't make much sense. Adsense includes this revocation message in the footer of any page of a website that uses it, example: https://prnt.sc/gl_f_Kv_HEkZ
The statistics may not be entirely meaningful, but the direction should at least be correct. Because, contrary to the general seasonal trend, I receive more visitors from Bing and other search engines from week to week. Bing visitors - with unchanged rankings according to Bing Webmaster Tools.
very likely so (sadly but that's more likely than what people presume here).
Maybe G hit the ceiling in terms of further growth but hey that's a cycle every business is facing (I feel is far from the decline everyone is celebrating so early), cannot start the party due to that. Instead is more bad news for smaller publishers and SMEs which is the picture not many from these sharing same StatsCounter graph do not seem to realize. If is any party that is over that's for the smaller fishes first, not for G.
I’m taking it with a pinch of salt until their share price starts dropping. Their profits are so closely tied to search ads that a drop of that size would have had an effect by now
My problem is this: if Google wants to make more money and do deals, they can. They have no right marketing their product as "organic search." It is deceptive. It reminds me of a couple of decades ago when we had search engines and then paid directories. Google is not an organic search company anymore. They should be forced to admit it. Unfortunately, our government is bought and paid for and consumers have no protection here.
So what the graph is saying pretty much is that they took the traffic from websites that are using statcounter and they gave it to reddit, quorra etc. But the users are still using Google just as much as before.
It's a great infographic. I would have added the link but I wasn't sure if it is allowed in the comments. I have a website very similar to yours but covering other tech products. We are also hit just like you. It's infuriating.
Most of us don't have any traffic anymore lol, I'm intrigued to see how open ai with bing are going to compete, I suspect they will team up with yahoo as it has an established name in the USA and they have been working on a new search experience, I remember the days when yahoo dominated and you had various traffic sources. Google has got to big but every dog has its day and every empire falls. Greed kills
finally someone with critical thinking! Most people do not understand the stats they look at it seems. If that rate would be the real rate of decline G MoM, in a few mths G would have to be at minus 50% ...
don't be so happy. It also might mean, that a large proportion of websites (including our websites) gets less traffic from Google and that large websites dominate even more since the latest core update.
At this rate, at the end of the year, I think Microsoft Bing will pass Google at least for desktop in the USA.
The drop in April was GIGANTIC: https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share/desktop/united-states-of-america
Oh wait... yeah...
And meeting at such circumstance isn't a 'happy' thing...
Fuck Google.
And honestly, it seems to be getting worse as we speak. I'm noticing ranking drops for some websites... Only to learn that my websites are outranked by Reddit, social media sites, and whatnot.
My 'faith' in the 5th May update is dwindling...
Strange, the Friday morning shake-up made my SERPs crap again.
I don't know how anyone can build a business with Google doing this crap...
I just stop paying attention to it during the weekend, as it's fine during the week but hopefully the May 5th update fixes this. I don't count on Google doing anything about this crap, but I still like to hope that something will happen.
As for my HCU hit site, I'm just gonna redo my content on a new domain. HCU penalized sites are just going to die eventually, so there's no use waiting on a miracle, just make a new site and start over at this point.