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get through and it takes me several hours to get to it. So please excuse any of that comment spam.
Same here. I also don't understand what I should do now. The website is ranking at the top on Google, but the number of visitors has been very low for the past two months. I don't know how long this situation will last.
If that is the case, you should be able to build your authority over time for whatever new niche you cover if there is no reason to have to avoid branching out to other niches. I have no idea what Forbes does. But the domain name is open-ended and the owners deserve to cover whatever they want. Only when your domain name is blackcarpets dot fly should you be restricted to a niche. In such cases, I would not only expect to find black carpets but flying black carpets.
This should not be a penalty for Forbes but rather a reduction of authority in my opinion. Fortune is another matter. Fortune should have to stick to wealth to some extent.
There are pros and cons to a domain name such as Forbes. In theory it is harder to build good signals but has the advantage of covering more things should it succeed. That's a fair trade-off.
Just how rigged were the 2024 Google Search updates? Fair to say this person woke up with a shock. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ea1881de30b626924d0076af0573422697c4bd5c55f2905c6af854a7f5dda8af.png
Get ready for a huge Googlerhea AI Overlords push squirting this week:
<b>Google’s AI search summaries are rolling out to over 100 more countries</b> - <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/28/24281860/google-ai-search-summaries-expand-more-countries">https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/28/24281860/google-ai-search-summaries-expand-more-countries</a>
<blockquote>Google’s AI Overviews are expanding across more than 100 countries this week. The AI-generated search summaries will appear for users in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Colombia, Chile, the Phillippines, Nigeria, and many more locations. You can view the full list of countries on Google’s website.</blockquote>
IMO, I think it just means like... Say, Forbes - we all know it is a business/finance niche site.
So any reviews or articles on "Cats, "Guitar", "Weight Loss", or whatever will get deranked immediately. But I believe any finance or business related reviews and articles will still stay up. I believe when people say Forbes Recommends/Advisor got hit they're actually seeing pages that is not related to business/finance got hit.
I have a strong feeling they're clamping down on websites that attempts to cover all niches, and PBNs.
Another example: if Google labels your site as "tech related" then only your tech-related pages will still stay up as normal; but any pages that is non-tech related will get hit.
I think PBN link sellers will be panicking now... Because most of them, especially those low-quality link sellers, tend to post all niches on one site with outbound links. These PBN sites will definitely get hit or ignored, rendering the backlinks or outbound links to clients useless. We could be seeing another huge sweep soon. I believe a core update will kick in very soon, probably by mid-November.
P.S: If all goes well, it may also help eradicate parasite SEOs tremendously. Lots of those .edu PDF spam may get devalued/deranked. However, those blackhatters who paid a huge sum for expired domain names with strong metrics ranking for related niche may thrive even more.
Brand New insights from the godfather of search
Labelling the person as - GODFATHER OF SEARCH shows how much people love feeling submissive to sm1 whos been lying over a year now
It seems people love that slave/peasant treatment
Thanks for the info! But I am confused about this part "if a site is writing about a topic that is not the topic it doesn't often write about."
Does it mean "if a site is writing about a topic that is not the topic it often write about."
I usually don't make offensive statements
But again the truth remains the truth
I'm not aware of how many whites n blacks n browns n mogoloids r here
As that's not my purpose here
N that's none of my business
I've never seen sm1 communicate badly with me n sm other people from third world countries
But at the same time I've seen sm ppl carry pure disgust towards people from third world countries
Well...that's not uncommon...u may have multiple reasons to carry disgust against people from other ethnicities and countries...that's human nature ...
But at the same time if u r a white from the USA n u r showing ur disgust towards people from third world countries...u must b reminded of the fact that even people from other countries r aware of European colonization of the Americas
Just bcz a group of people from other ethnicities and countries have proved themselves scammers spammers or whatever
The whites based in the USA should b aware of their activities from the past + there r people from other ethnicities n countries who have been involved in wrongdoings as well It's not just THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES
I think the only thing they want to do is eradicating bloggers completely +affiliate sites
N I'm no genuis or fortune teller or anyone like that
but I think the internet will b a lot different from what it used to b
It will b just big names n AIO
they're doing everything intentionally
As the most dominating search engine google hasn't been doing a MISTAKE over a year now
It's a DECISION
we aren't being able to accept it is different
But the truth remains the truth
Nowhere it's written that third world countries can't b hired as part of MNCs
+ whatever is happening isn't the sole decision of pichai
+ sm1 else has replaced Raghavan n it's still the same
So the problem is deeper than this
don't keep speaking like a teenager who's just angry n speaking anything he feels like
From the number of visits u make to the google community forum or something n the way u listen n believe their words
most of us r aware of how wise u r
It was corrected quickly after it went viral. This isn't the first time either his content has been censored. But that's what happens when one company with little oversight until recently, controls where the majority of people get their information, while favoring one poltical party over another. Atleast drop the impartiality.
Nowhere in the name Fortune or on the Fortune About page has it committed to writing about "cars" or "hammers."
If you run a tech news site and switch to reviews, you are at risk. That's the equivalent of what Fortune did. If you innovate at all, you are at risk. That's what this post says. Moreover, if you so much as leave an outbound link in anything resembling a review, you are at risk. That's all Fortune has done that we know of.
No, the classifier has classified the site for a specific topic. They dont do it at page level for a long time now. I think the "starkly different" means writing about cars one day and hammers the next. If it is classified as a car site it will not rank the hammers.
Its a massive U-turn. As <a href="https://disqus.com/by/disqus_BDojtGoY01/">Jewish Cat Who Does S̶E̶O̶</a> says below.
Like Barry said in the article: "Now, this seems to go against communication from Google from August 2023 where Google said you don't need a niche site to rank for for a topic. "
SEOs are claiming that Google is targeting subfolders to hit affiliate content in this update.
It doesn't take an SEO genius to remove the subfolder does it? I hope they have better ideas on what to do next.
It's literally the 1st result in google search and on YT if one searches for 'rogan trump interview' not some silly query. If the channel wants to be found for that then the creator can target that query.
Still don't fully understand. Is it similar to the scenario when there were loads of URLs being appended with "." and "1000" causing 404's? That was due to spam sites linking out with dodgy URLs, which Google followed.
I dont support your offensive words. But to touch on the latter part: Google lets average users decided what ranks via signals. Because so many people in the world are from India, they like to read content made by Indians and the Indian sites rank. It would be the same for China if they spoke English and used Google.
It's also why people from small countries get no traffic. There is no bias in their favor.
Google has numerous other systems in place to reduce this bias such as Google EEAT. But it's a flawed system. A Chinaman is more likely to trust another Chinaman and so on. At some point, they will realize signals are flawed and actually try to assess content. Ironically, maybe AI can do it.
You would expect a "woke" Googler in favor of transexual rights and all of these types of things to be able to empathize with flawed signals that act with a bias. These are biased signals they used without question.
This is the number 1 reason for the rise in Indians since an Indian controlled Google as CEO. They don't write things into the code to favor them directly. They just purposefully have a bias in favor of them. Thought you were one of the best writers in the world and then found yourself overtaken by a 10-year-old child from India? Well guess what. That's the bias.
What does a 13-year old Indian internet user want to do with a 40-year-old white guy from central Florida who just got him by a hurricane? They're not interested in that shit. No. They want to read the 10-year-old Indian instead.
There is absolutely no quality control in these signals.
And then just to top it off, they come out in 2024 and say oh well actually we can read content and we're going to be removing this entire category from SERPs. This has to be some kind of black comedy act.
That's right. Also, if you did a genuine review and linked back to the subject's website, you may be penalized for supposed affiliate content when it isn't affiliate content.
Lily Ray claims that the reason sites were hit in this update was because it was sponsored content and created recently. (1) There's no way she can tell if it's sponsored unless it says so; and (2) many sites have implemented innovative ideas in recent years. The only links that look likely sponsored are when they directly link to networked sites for no reason in the head section etc. Obviously they're sponsored. But you can't assume some type of review is sponsored.
So let's ask an SEO on a million dollar salary: How do they know it's sponsored? You can be from Yale. You can be traveling the world right now. Take a break and tell us all how you know it's sponsored. Every webpage with Adsense is sponsored by the ads. That's all the reason you need to create content.