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Sam commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

Because you're better than that. AI is not going to rule forever, I see lot's of webmasters doing the dark side now which is messing up the internet. All for Google's AI strategy - is it worth it Google?

Comment ID #6809684488 12/15/2025 05:25 am

Sam commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

17 year old site, gone from 100k adsense ads a day to 15k mainly due to AI overviews. I am seeing influx of AI spam websites - why can't they just stop new sites from coming in the serps unless 100% human written, surely they can do a detector.

Comment ID #6809683781 12/15/2025 05:21 am

John A. User commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

If Google could go lower than zero somehow, they would :D

Comment ID #6809677265 12/15/2025 04:50 am

Jantje commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

I know how it feels, but: It cannot go lower than 0. FG

Comment ID #6809673860 12/15/2025 04:33 am

BVB Borusse commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

Hurray ... I thought it couldn't get any worse. I was wrong. The new update has brought me another loss of traffic. I'm now down to 5% of my former traffic. I no longer think it's out of the question that my site will disappear altogether. The last one will turn off the lights. Long live Google and long live AI.

Comment ID #6809671711 12/15/2025 04:22 am

SEOman11 commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

Most of my clients are either stable or growing this update. But one client I just migrated to a new domain a few weeks ago, now it is not visible on any page in Google for 40 out of 50 of its main keywords. The remaining 10 will probably tank the coming days.

Comment ID #6809670547 12/15/2025 04:16 am

MrSEO commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

Seeing pretty much 15 page EMD brand new sites basic ai text with a image.. this is now dominating along with repurposed domains. if the update finishes like this I think I will join the darkside and also start producing slop as that seems the best if not only way to make money online now. it looks quick easy and cheap. it makes sense. give google what it wants. Why break your backs creating quality content, good layouts.. EEAT, real tessting etc,.. when you can just flood the web with AI slop for 9.99 per domain?

Comment ID #6809663492 12/15/2025 03:41 am

Sensei commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

The domain in this X post takes lazy AI slop to the next level. Google should be rewarding them soon: <a href="https://x.com/harpreetchatha_/status/1999958606104727974">https://x.com/harpreetchatha_/status/1999958606104727974</a>

Comment ID #6809642413 12/15/2025 01:28 am

Leary Liang commented on Google AI Max Relevance By Inferred Intent vs Raw Text

After half year testing we turned it off last weekend, cause see no profit increase.

Comment ID #6809637237 12/15/2025 12:55 am

altairroofing commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated Over Weekend (Dec 7&8)

Cool

Comment ID #6809632680 12/15/2025 12:26 am

SEOwhat commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

Traffic is actually up a little, while my tracked keyword positions are down, some completely lost. Really looking forward to checking metrics every twenty minutes over the holiday. tHanXX gOoGLe!

Comment ID #6809577191 12/14/2025 08:22 pm

John A. User commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

Aided and abetting by paid off politicians and amateur judges.

Comment ID #6809511198 12/14/2025 04:52 pm

snuffy commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

For the past two years Google is spending very little effort on maintaining their index, calculating rankings and delivering organic SERPs. They are focused on AI Overview, sponsored products, ads, and stuff that searchers can click to get a fresh batch of ads. The organic results are more of an expense than a money-making product. So they are putting minimal work into them. Just shuffle, deal, repeat.

Comment ID #6809498221 12/14/2025 04:21 pm

John A. User commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

Scumdar must be so proud of the slop that Gemini and others can do.

Comment ID #6809458423 12/14/2025 02:51 pm

2025 commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

who cares

Comment ID #6809451715 12/14/2025 02:36 pm

Yaniv Ben-Atia commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Rolling Out

how is it going? we see improvement , not back to what it was but much better then then yesterday.

Comment ID #6809431176 12/14/2025 01:49 pm

John A. User commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

Bing is just as bad, its dam unoriginal. Has no one got a brain cell at Bing to think rather than copy. If they want to pull people away from Google, they need to be original. That said, based on referrer string, both DDG and BING are sending more than double the number of visitors that Google are. Imagine if one of those had Google's monopoly, I'm be receiving 10x what I am now.

Comment ID #6809399290 12/14/2025 12:38 pm

DataDonkey commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

Scamdar's message to publishers and anyone who stands in the way of the Poop Technocracy he is building: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6e4cf36a16fea71bf80438f74cb6484ed6bbff952c1074d429b7b92a748960c7.jpg

Comment ID #6809370949 12/14/2025 11:35 am

Ziko commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Rolling Out

same from 100k to 0

Comment ID #6809360246 12/14/2025 11:10 am

FokGoogle commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

Seeing 25%+ traffic drops on Saturday and Sunday on multiple sites. But there wasn't much traffic left on these sites anyway so Google can EATT shit.

Comment ID #6809347564 12/14/2025 10:42 am

DataDonkey commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

The real problem is not ranks but all the Googleshit at the top of the serps. AI Slop Overviews, Ad Spam, those People Also Piss Boxes, etc. are splattered all over the user's screen like that nasty shart on the wall in the movie Bad Grandpa. Some have called organic results footer links now that don't get seen so they can't get clicked. So why bother with core updates at all since Google doesn't want users to see organic results anyway and instead drown users in Googleshit? Updates are just a liars tool designed to give hope where no hope exists. Sure, we might get a little bump in traffic when they turn AI Slop Overviews, ads, etc. off during an update, but watch them use this update to take the attention off of more Googleshit they slide into the serps to steal more traffic. I can say #1 ranks didn't get traffic before this update and still won't when it's over.

Comment ID #6809341598 12/14/2025 10:28 am

John A. User commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

Me too

Comment ID #6809327050 12/14/2025 09:54 am

Jantje commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

I’m basically seeing the same thing. Ai slop is ranking surprisingly high. Call me old fashioned, but I’ve always created everything without Ai. I put my visitors first and to me that means taking them seriously. That's why I don’t use Ai. That decision has now come at a high cost because my website (which is over 10 years old) has been completely wiped out.

Comment ID #6809320400 12/14/2025 09:37 am

MrSEO commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

My traffic is down.. Now. Noticing top 20.Results are one page websites with 120k visits in competitive niche.. A few repurposed domains with AI slop.. Actual good quality competition sites along with my own destroyed.. For now, maybe it's the garbage floating to the top first before it kicks in? This one is strange

Comment ID #6809314867 12/14/2025 09:23 am

PMB Brent commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

I haven't seen any significant change in metrics. It's not encouraging that most reports seem to be negative.

Comment ID #6809300936 12/14/2025 08:42 am

Barry Schwartz commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Rolling Out

that is insulting :P

Comment ID #6809276509 12/14/2025 07:23 am

Golden Phoenix commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Rolling Out

YouTube is a short term solution. Rumble as well. There is no guarantee they will last but if you are stuck, it's worth a shot for a few months. Better than writing blogs that won't get traffic or ranked.

Comment ID #6809275889 12/14/2025 07:20 am

googleisjoke commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Rolling Out

big true but still they are one of the biggest so why not to ride the wave? with videos it's little different than with articles, so training AI is not much relevant for let's say synth review channel, where you physically own a synth and have to demonstrate it to your taste. AI is powerless here, also people watch people because they demonstrate it to their taste, AI have no taste, no personality, nothing, just regurgigating old crap. and even in a ultra long term scenario, if it becomes so intelligent that it can make stuff on its own? as I said - people would just watch people as they own the personality, robots don't.

Comment ID #6809273397 12/14/2025 07:10 am

Sam commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Rolling Out

Merry Christmas everyone, 8% down every day I am actually wondering if Google are just the government because a company would not do this to itself. It is self-sabotage on a massive scale.The articles produced by AI are just not good in my niche, they too robotic and don't have the full information.

Comment ID #6809273178 12/14/2025 07:09 am

Sensei commented on Google Maps Share Button Removes X For Reddit & Facebook

The only thing surprising is they didn't add all Googlers favorite, Bluecry. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f00f3318d4e89ad75e6d3bd194e4e940a909c04bd26a39cfa52d9d0809bb1bb4.jpg

Comment ID #6809219422 12/14/2025 02:10 am

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