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DataDonkey commented on Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility

Just like Bobby, he changed his user name cause I have the other SnowInWinter blocked. More proof his only intent posting here is to piss all over everyone's comments so he can eat yellow snow in winter.

Comment ID #6804041863 12/02/2025 07:00 am

Mark commented on Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility

He's not making any money. It's Bobby back with a new username to get bullied again.

Comment ID #6804040629 12/02/2025 06:55 am

DataDonkey commented on Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility

The AI race is meant to put fear into politicians and regulators so they allow wholesale theft of intellectual property. These big techies use our stolen intellectual property to compete with us and profit by taking our traffic away. The quote from above is a partial quote from Bannon's letter dated yesterday. I'll post that complete quoted paragraph below. For years politicians bitched about China stealing our intellectual property, and now big techies have been anointed by the USA government to do it themselves. I think that's the point Bannon is trying to make in his letter, in addition to big techies being in a $20 trillion industry and financially capable to license what they use so that human innovation doesn't die in their push to make the USA a lawless dictatorial state. <blockquote>Big Tech says it is “fair use” under our federal copyright laws for them to steal and profit from every creative work in America to “train” or otherwise benefit their artificial intelligence machines. “We must steal like China to compete against China,” they essentially argue. This is un-American and absurd. We must compete and win the global AI race the American way—by ensuring we protect creators, children, conservatives, and communities.</blockquote>

Comment ID #6804040203 12/02/2025 06:54 am

AceD commented on Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility

It’s only to annoy people here

Comment ID #6804037001 12/02/2025 06:41 am

Sam commented on Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility

Average visit time 6 seconds so yes, it's bots. They must be up to something in China etc creating some more hard pressing AI

Comment ID #6804032254 12/02/2025 06:23 am

Sam commented on Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility

Sorry to you its a horrible time to be a publisher and very sad the governments are doing this.

Comment ID #6804031893 12/02/2025 06:21 am

Sam commented on Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility

It's just a lie. It's nothing to do with a race, it is just a joke. What is the point of copyright law if I can steal the world's information and just say I am an AI company. Ridiculas.

Comment ID #6804031684 12/02/2025 06:20 am

Sam commented on Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility

I think you should stop posting as this is a flex on people that are loosing millions so just go away

Comment ID #6804031342 12/02/2025 06:19 am

Steve Buttler commented on Google Ads To Bring Back Website Optimizer

I'm not sure if its a good news or not. I was not using google ads in 2008. Maybe you can post a help article o nit.

Comment ID #6804021532 12/02/2025 05:37 am

DataDonkey commented on Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility

Definitely theft. More from Trump's own political party are concerned where this is all headed. <b>Bannon, top conservatives urge White House to reject Big Tech’s ‘fair use’ push to justify AI copyright theft: ‘Un-American and absurd’</b> - <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/12/01/business/bannon-top-conservatives-urge-white-house-to-reject-big-techs-fair-use-push-to-justify-ai-copyright-theft/">https://nypost.com/2025/12/01/business/bannon-top-conservatives-urge-white-house-to-reject-big-techs-fair-use-push-to-justify-ai-copyright-theft/</a> <blockquote>“This is un-American and absurd,” the conservatives argued in the letter, which was exclusively obtained by The Post. “We must compete and win the global AI race the American way — by ensuring we protect creators, children, conservatives, and communities.”</blockquote>

Comment ID #6804017257 12/02/2025 05:16 am

SnowInWinter commented on Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility

It doesn't matter at this point. I am making so much money. See Google stock price! And my website traffic! Oh goodness.

Comment ID #6804014839 12/02/2025 05:05 am

Golden Phoenix commented on Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility

Configserver Firewall. Actually, I see that they have shutdown but their open source is still available. I think a lot of such services will go bust as websites go bust. I still use it. It's a decent firewall.

Comment ID #6804014439 12/02/2025 05:03 am

Golden Phoenix commented on Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility

of course AI is theft. I feel bad for people who actually built a business around cooking and things of that nature. That's all going to be stolen by AI. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/045883a1b5098849a003aec580b5d0e1f67bff0a0020add831ea746175eab5c7.jpg

Comment ID #6804014017 12/02/2025 05:00 am

Ekees SEO commented on Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility

I already said a week or two ago that an update was going on or starting, but still no real announced update. We do not know for sure, and makes my prediction a tad unreliable. It is still volatile, but only downhill for my bigger main sites. The smaller sites are quite stable, but unfortantely not bringing much revenue. My two bigger sites with more authority are just a plaything for the algo's until they are dead like a mouse in the paws of a cat.

Comment ID #6803994117 12/02/2025 03:15 am

John A. User commented on Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility

Whats CSF?

Comment ID #6803980808 12/02/2025 01:51 am

John A. User commented on Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility

I have been seeing the same, lots of traffic from China and Singapore for weeks. I get Cloudflare to block or try to block China. When I look at google analytics, all china come from Lanzhou. I don't really block singapore because I wonder if its AhRefs.

Comment ID #6803980740 12/02/2025 01:50 am

racefan01 commented on Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility

All November, traffic was barely alive. And now it's completely dead. Discover is gone. Search traffic is a new low. Excellent, Google. Thanks for the holiday wishes!

Comment ID #6803966680 12/02/2025 12:11 am

Imarc shubham commented on Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility

Definitely seeing a shuffle—rankings jumping around, traffic down, and Discover acting weird. Feels like an update for sure.

Comment ID #6803956989 12/01/2025 11:09 pm

ShlimeBall commented on Google AI Overviews With Save Button

why hasnt this been implemented yet..

Comment ID #6803950147 12/01/2025 10:33 pm

Golden Phoenix commented on Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility

Nah. That's AI. It's what happens when you copy paste AI output. You can easily train AI to give you tweets that sound human, natural. She never says something I am impressed with. Like one thing that makes me believe she has thought it through. But she is on her way to 100k followers and soon more. It's a brilliant strategy to be honest. Just keep saying positive things about every AI company. She also pushes Ozempic a lot

Comment ID #6803907683 12/01/2025 08:03 pm

Sensei commented on Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility

Haha yeah that overuse of "holy moly" gimmick sounds cringe and lame AF. Although maybe it's really what she always says every time before stuffing her face throughout the day, and the AI she uses that does all her posts, just works it in it's generated content.

Comment ID #6803906490 12/01/2025 07:59 pm

Golden Phoenix commented on Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility

same here. I blocked them. If you have CSF, I can give you the code to block them in one shot. My site was getting thousands of visitors (mobile) from SG. I think it's a bot farm. I blocked CN completely already

Comment ID #6803905000 12/01/2025 07:53 pm

Golden Phoenix commented on Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility

I got on X a while back to drive traffic to my site and studied these folks. I am honestly sick of her "holy moly" content. Everything is "holy moly." You go and check. haha. It is a template she is using. I would not be surprised if she is using AI to write her tweets. They all sound the same. Yet somehow she gets retweets from Musk and big players because she is always praising them. Also, she steals videos from Reddit and uploads as her own, gives the link in the comments but still gets the views and monetization

Comment ID #6803903539 12/01/2025 07:47 pm

Sensei commented on Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility

You're likely spot on. Just for kicks I asked Grok what it's take was on fatty's schtick, and this was it's answer: Kim Isenberg likely begins by sharing enthusiastic, positive posts about major AI players like Google on platforms such as X, portraying them as innovative leaders to draw in and engage a broad audience of AI enthusiasts and professionals. This approach helps build her personal brand as an "insider" expert, boosting followers and newsletter subscribers via hype-filled threads and her self-proclaimed "simp" status for entities like DeepMind. With established credibility, she integrates promotions for AI tools focused on marketing, content creation, and automation—areas that align with SEO—offering them as essential solutions stemming from her AI expertise. These endorsements frequently feature demos or highlights of third-party products such as Pomelli or Lindy AI CMO, which could generate affiliate revenue or partnerships while establishing her newsletter as a premier hub for this kind of "intel." In the end, the strategy directs traffic to getsuperintel.com , where she monetizes through subscriptions, advertisements, or subtle sales pitches masked as objective guidance to support her content creation enterprise.

Comment ID #6803899159 12/01/2025 07:31 pm

DataDonkey commented on Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility

Probably bots, but you can check some IP addresses to confirm.

Comment ID #6803898847 12/01/2025 07:30 pm

Sam commented on Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility

Why am I seeing tons of traffic from China and Singapore this week? Someone raised this on here I am in my numbers and there is insane amounts anyone?

Comment ID #6803897508 12/01/2025 07:26 pm

Sam commented on Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility

I loved 202/2021 before AI they were great years.

Comment ID #6803876897 12/01/2025 06:13 pm

Golden Phoenix commented on Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility

Chubby is pretty interesting. If you look at her tweets, it's just constant glazing of these companies or Ozempic. Half of her tweets start with "Holy Moly!" You can go and check. I have. She tags Elon regularly in her comments or sometimes even posts to get retweets. She claims to be this AI expert but all I see is just propaganda. I think I have her system down. I think she has created this X custom search that looks for AI/robot posts that have more than 10/15 likes and comments and then retweets them or plain steals their videos. She also does this for Hot/Rising Reddit content. I am not good at a lot of things but I can reverse engineer anything, and I have her system down pretty much.

Comment ID #6803862946 12/01/2025 05:31 pm

John A. User commented on Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility

Wouldn't be surprised if their work colleagues were posting these as they all seem to get an answer, I wonder if there are any that didn't.

Comment ID #6803778427 12/01/2025 02:11 pm

Dallas commented on Rewriting AI Content With Human Content Won't Make Your Site Recover In Google Search

As they actively push Opal and AI content :/

Comment ID #6803732100 12/01/2025 12:31 pm

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