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Musadiqkhan commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

Will this ever get back to normal? It's been almost a month with high volatility

Comment ID #6838308562 02/15/2026 02:31 pm

MrSEO commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

But cable tv was the only infrastructure.. there were no other options. and when one come along like the internet. now look at them, a dying breed. just like mainstream media. there will be a stage where they have to pay or reward peopel for content or just spew gibberish out which is the stage we are at now., in 2022 you could see it starting but now it's almost unusable.

Comment ID #6838304376 02/15/2026 02:20 pm

DataDonkey commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

Google will not stop until they disembowel the entire web because there's nothing to stop them. In my opinion, what will survive are big brands and Google. Almost like having cable TV with a thousand channels that are all owned by a handful of big companies. If you want to be found, then you will have to pay for commercials. Those with a following (blogs, forums, etc) that's keeping them alive with some traffic now will suffer attrition and decline as being discovered gets more difficult/costly. At least for the next few years I see no other direction because we have geriatrics in Washington DC who know nothing about technology except that it's cool to attack their political enemies with AI slop they created. Even if a new administration comes into power that views Google as the criminal enterprise they are, and not humanity's savior the current delusional administration thinks it is, the damage done will have been permanent.

Comment ID #6838294446 02/15/2026 01:55 pm

googleisjoke commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

I'm experiencing this already my whole life as I have asperger, 99% of poeple are strangers to me, I'm too normal to be weird, but too weird to be normal, so nobody notices, and I'm like a shade

Comment ID #6838283682 02/15/2026 01:28 pm

MrSEO commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

We are due a big update and I don't just mean another core update. We all see the results and they get worse and worse, you tube is also dominated by ai slop and it can be easy to see. AI is intelligent enough now to see in the serps slop, hacked sites and repurposed domains spewing out garbage. the parasite seo never got it's kicking and big media still keeps pushing medicocre content with 3 or 4 fact checker bios to fool eeat. People are now using othe methods to search. Usually there is a march update perhaps this year it comes around earlier?

Comment ID #6838237716 02/15/2026 11:28 am

John A. User commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

Google.AI , the future so when the world has become inhabitable, it'll not notice we've gone and carry on.

Comment ID #6838225315 02/15/2026 10:55 am

googleisjoke commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

imagine - google will be adding these updates forever and everybody will be dead, nobody will read about it lol!

Comment ID #6838223206 02/15/2026 10:50 am

Sam commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility February 10th

I was searching for some advice on a topic just now and noticed the large retailers who have a blog about a topic are being cited in AIO, and the small independent voice I was looking for was nowhere to be seen. My concern is that AIO is giving weight to large domains rather than smaller publishers whose core offering is the actual topic I was searching for. I thought there was an update to correct this in main search but it seems it has not happened in AIO. I just looked at my own competitors and can see a competitor which created 1 million AI pages that tanked in traditional ....is doing well in AI Overviews. It is so messed up. They have not applied the same ranking systems in AI overviews than they have in AI traditional search. Clearly, favoring large companies or AI content.

Comment ID #6838179060 02/15/2026 08:46 am

Sam commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility February 10th

Have you done a server audit? Just go into terminal on your server and check everything is ok using AI e.g. no 500 errors, that google can crawl ok, any plugin errors etc. Read only commands.

Comment ID #6838155109 02/15/2026 07:21 am

Sam commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility February 10th

Thank you for giving me instructions on seeing AIO I just saw this.their own numbers have to be telling them this is destroying ad revenue per query. Every AI Overview that answers the question directly is a query where nobody clicks not on ads, not on organic results. And ads are 80% of Alphabet's revenue. Crazy. If they are banking on wiping us out so advertisors will be forced to advertise in AI they are very very wrong. ive found myself searching much more on social media now.Every time Google makes its own product worse, it pushes more people toward my socials. Google is literally training its biggest customers to spend elsewhere.

Comment ID #6838154485 02/15/2026 07:18 am

DataDonkey commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility February 10th

Discover update launched on Feb 5 is still going, but the reason for most of our pain is ai overviews. Google uses announced updates to mask new or expanded features in search, and the Discover update is no different. Look at the graph and ai overviews jumped and stayed steady once Google announced Gemini 3 was being used and right after the Discover update launched. Imagine how Gemini 5, 6, etc. will help Google steal & serve even more of our content to users. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6cec94d50dc69ed83d1b05df2469b6d2fb19971c4aabc3c68ead1139f9fe8e01.gif

Comment ID #6838119965 02/15/2026 04:35 am

Ted (or Big T) commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility February 10th

No, I don't think so. My competitor have Rocket for cache, him traffic is very good.

Comment ID #6838113938 02/15/2026 04:03 am

googleisjoke commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility February 10th

yes that just tells that no matter how good / big it is, it can drop and backlinks?? they have so many, why they don't matter? because they don't.

Comment ID #6838112787 02/15/2026 03:56 am

clone21 commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility February 10th

Yeah, that site is gabarge now, I had checked it for years.

Comment ID #6838053577 02/14/2026 09:04 pm

PMB Brent commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility February 10th

It's a great site, and it's exactly the kind of site that Google doesn't rank anymore: niche, keyword-targeted, affiliate, not a major publication. They have clearly targeted these kinds of niche blogs, whether intentionally or not. The problem is that Google isn't honest about this; they just tell you to create helpful content. I have landed on that site many times myself over the years.

Comment ID #6838052339 02/14/2026 08:58 pm

Sam commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility February 10th

We have been featured guys on this youtube, thank you for trying to help us. We turn up every fuck@ing day guys.....at the end of his video https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5ae22a4d449bd084c57e1e9402d9bc9cbca57eaf51ceb661988a5134a162a1ce.png

Comment ID #6837946570 02/14/2026 02:58 pm

John A. User commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility February 10th

What do you mean by dropping visibility? You can find them in google or sites that use them are dropping. If you mean sites dropping because using plug-ins, I don't use WP, but I don't suspect it's because of the plug-in, I think it's a red herring, everyone looking for a reason and then blaming add-ons as a convenient excuse.

Comment ID #6837890871 02/14/2026 12:39 pm

Dimitris Abrazis commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility February 10th

I am in search of a good wordpress plugin for caching and during my search i found some reports that some plugins are dropping visibility in Google. Have you ever heard of it? What would be a good plugin? I found posts about WP-Rocket and flyingpress that are causing trouble... Could it be that?

Comment ID #6837861738 02/14/2026 11:25 am

Mark commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility February 10th

I dont think its the best site content wise, <a href="https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/make-money-online/">https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/make-money-online/</a> Stuff like that is just a massive article for the sake of being long, just filled with garbage.

Comment ID #6837827788 02/14/2026 09:59 am

googleisjoke commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility February 10th

i think best wp site

Comment ID #6837769340 02/14/2026 06:33 am

Dimitris Abrazis commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility February 10th

Exactly that. I created a website with 7m pageviews per month in a 10m country just by working 15 hours per day. this is what they want to take away from me

Comment ID #6837768649 02/14/2026 06:29 am

googleisjoke commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility February 10th

:DD

Comment ID #6837741303 02/14/2026 03:56 am

googleisjoke commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility February 10th

i got the karma part, yes last time i flipped BUT - I believe in it myself on google, and the moment it was sold it started dropping, I was not sure if to cry or laught, but I was very lucky from now on, I plan to flip too but I design it for a BING so I tell upfront when selling - google sucks don't relly on it.

Comment ID #6837741254 02/14/2026 03:56 am

clone21 commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility February 10th

The quality of this site is not that high as people may think, so many confused things on it, too many listicle shits.

Comment ID #6837667974 02/13/2026 08:38 pm

Golden Phoenix commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility February 10th

This guy shouldn't struggle to make money with 2.5m subs. I will say this, this won't last. What Google gives, it takes away. You can't build a business on something that changes drastically overnight. Even if it works for a year, it still is not viable business

Comment ID #6837642270 02/13/2026 07:01 pm

Golden Phoenix commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility February 10th

I have a WordPress site that was getting a ton of traffic. That also tanked. I don't think it's 5k now. I gave up on it. It was a big site. Some of you may even know it. Once AI started to hit, it was cooked, and I stopped wasting time.

Comment ID #6837640324 02/13/2026 06:54 pm

Dan commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility February 10th

2026, the year that keeps on giving. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d820636da830ace42710f7c63c7b1049d84c25cca9e809447b2897ba90280fc0.png

Comment ID #6837608786 02/13/2026 05:10 pm

Mark commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility February 10th

The problem is the experience I've got is extremely narrow - I've spent the last 2 decades concentrating on how to get sites to first place in Google when they shouldn't be there. If that ability goes away (or I can still do it but 1st place isn't worth paying for) then honestly my value to any company is probably ridiculously low lol. That's fine, I've made some money in seo and done okay so I'm totally comfortable accepting the position I'm potentially going to shoved into at some point :D Ive got absolutely no real experience of doing anything at all in this time period, if seo vanished overnight then the entire employment market will be non-viable for me for as long as I live.

Comment ID #6837605054 02/13/2026 04:59 pm

Mark commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility February 10th

I'm still earning money, why would I have moved anywhere? What I am doing is working, for now. You keep saying seo is dead; I keep banking my paycheque every month proving its not dead. Using your mums example, I honestly can't think of anything worse for me personally. Right off the bat I don't intend to work past 50 so retraining in my early 40's is a complete disaster... I'm going to do all the office junior bits in my 40's, and quit this job too before I make any real ground with it. Why would I want to humiliate myself for £28k a year that I don't need? I'm not getting bossed about by someone in their early 20's... if they'd come to work for me I'd be their bosses boss. No thanks. I don't even live in one country all year round as things stand, If I can't get another online job when this one does on me I'm completely and utterly fucked working wise, I want to do it but won't be able to.

Comment ID #6837603066 02/13/2026 04:53 pm

DataDonkey commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility February 10th

The site has been scraped, spun and spit out in Google's AI ScrewOverYous so it gets little organic traffic. Anyway demand for starting or maintaining existing WP sites has to be at an all time low to match the all time low traffic. Only one making sites is you, who flips them to people who probably watch their traffic drop like a rock in the ocean. Be careful with karma doing that.

Comment ID #6837598277 02/13/2026 04:41 pm

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