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lol and you forgot the biggest asset - the time, paying for the things you mentioned is a nothing compared to time you spent on building something like that. you could spend time elsewhere.
They all parrot the same BS nonanswers and doubletalk no matter what hideous face at Google is spewing it. Pretty sure "Liz" is just JM in drag anyways.
as i sit here with average position quite possibly at the best it's ever been, but traffic and revenue is a fraction what i used to be. gee thanks, i guess?? i went from having a thriving business to having a hobby that's barely worth paying for hosting.
Like a Broken Record, repeating the same again and again... They're only doing this for their investors not the webmasters.
Google is giving increasing exposure to social media sites, not because more people think they're great, its just search functionality on Reddit, Twitter, etc is poor and they've realised that Google index their sites. I wouldn't be surprised if those that search Reddit etc only amounts to 0.5% of all searches.
I do believe that Google is ignoring Adsense but if they prioritised sites then they'd get more money which @disqus_tCRyPV6vXh:disqus has said before.
My site ranks number one for terms I've owned for years. It is not being visited. I get little revenue. Google now gets little revenue. The user gets an AI summary scraped partly from pirated content, from 3rd party sites copying me or PDF's uploaded to sites who have directly copied my copyright content word for word. No-one is making money guys, it is not profitable whatsoever.
How is that a content quality problem.
Liz Reid talked about preferred sources and personalisation as the answer. I'd like to believe that. But those are future promises while the damage is happening right now. Publishers who built genuine audiences over decades to billions of visitors (Like me) are being destroyed in the present tense while Google plans improvements for the future tense.
They urgently need to roll back AIO in categories where human voice and lived experience are the entire point of the content.
And here is what I don't think Google fully appreciates. Running a website and producing quality content is not cheap. Hosting, writers, tools, maintenance, it costs real money every single month regardless of whether traffic is coming in. Publishers have been running down their savings to keep going in the hope that things improve. That runway is not infinite. When the money runs out the sites shut down, people retire, people get other careers. Google is not dealing with a slow decline they can fix gradually, nor expect just 3 million YouTubers to make mint and replace all the websites. They are dealing with a hard deadline that is approaching for a lot of us right now. The content they are building AIO on top of will not exist if they do not act. They are on a limited timeframe and I am not sure they understand that.
Just more Google-serving propaganda that isn't accurate in the field. See the post from Jan-Willem Bobbink on LinkedIn here: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jbobbink_google-is-gaslighting-the-entire-seo-industry-share-7435581414588301312-hzys">https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jbobbink_google-is-gaslighting-the-entire-seo-industry-share-7435581414588301312-hzys</a>
Don't think anyone knows, its just an irritating phrase people use...
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6-7_meme">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6-7_meme</a>
Kinda wondering about sites that buy authority. I have a competitor who pays for do-follow backlinks and some of their articles show up in the top 10 in Google. None of their backlinks are natural.
Worst of all is their blatant lying and gaslighting that obvious facts are not facts and everyone who states the facts is actually using "flawed logic".
It is obvious to anyone who is remotely in this industry that AIOs steal content and publisher revenue.
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Has a great video, although we've all seen it before or know about it. Slop Layer, AI-written code that has to be checked by humans and a lot of it is useless. Remember, Google said 25% of the code is AI-written; they just can't be bothered checking it properly, or they've got rid of too many checkers.
Sam Altman acknowledges there are risks but does he care, no, he'll get it sorted but won't stop with releasing Slop. Its like Ford releasing a Focus and the breaking doesn't work but they'll get it fixed.
He isn't trolling or playing you. By now you should know Disqus held the comment for moderation like it has for many of us over the years. Disqus is buggy, maybe because they're trying to integrate Google's AI.
If you don't want to look like a fool, it's best if you just delete your post.
What's utterly disgusting is that Trump/Vance thought Google should be broken up for burying conservative speech during their campaign. After getting elected, Trump/Vance dived into the swamp head first and are just fine with Google wiping out all speech and publishing their own with AI. Google, a multi-convict corporation, has more control over speech than ever.
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This is crazy...
<a href="https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-overviews-media">https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-overviews-media</a>
I wouldn't be surprised if when they do, they'll "forget" everything and push ahead with their plans by saying it will empower us. Empower us for what??? We won't forget.
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