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Sensei commented on Google Site Reputation Abuse Policy Expands To First Party Involvement Or Content Oversight

Speaking of DEI, luckily there will be a lot a lot less bullshit woke positions in gov't soon. <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1858916546338590740">https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1858916546338590740 </a> It sucks they can't do this same kind of house cleaning at Google.

Comment ID #6596718287 11/21/2024 01:09 am

racefan01 commented on Google Site Reputation Abuse Policy Expands To First Party Involvement Or Content Oversight

What did these idiots do with news search? Before my latest news there is now copy-paste news from other sites from a year ago! Have they completely lost their minds there? Search - destroyed, Google.News - destroyed, Google Discover - destroyed.

Comment ID #6596694425 11/20/2024 11:40 pm

Bobby commented on Google Site Reputation Abuse Policy Expands To First Party Involvement Or Content Oversight

A Forbes editor allowed all of that? https://media3.giphy.com/media/gBpY4p7bbhsiI/giphy-downsized-small.mp4

Comment ID #6596690951 11/20/2024 11:29 pm

Leary Liang commented on OpenAI ChatGPT's Search Marketing Share

POOR BING, NO ONE LOVES IT.

Comment ID #6596661974 11/20/2024 10:04 pm

Sayani commented on Google Site Reputation Abuse Policy Expands To First Party Involvement Or Content Oversight

i just checked last night my site links all indexed bt nowhere to b found in the serps ik idc anymore but still..isnt it very weird? bt still nt worth caring abt it anymore as the serps r all nonsensical ...it doesnt even matter what sh/it u write in ur post ...if uk to spam well google will keep kissing u for a lifetime

Comment ID #6596658910 11/20/2024 09:57 pm

Durant Imboden commented on Google Site Reputation Abuse Policy Expands To First Party Involvement Or Content Oversight

<blockquote>Even if Forbes and the big notable ones get eradicated</blockquote>Except that they aren't being eradicated. Only the crappy parasite sub-sites are having their traffic and revenue wiped out. The branded parent sites are still sitting pretty.

Comment ID #6596577694 11/20/2024 06:59 pm

Durant Imboden commented on Google Site Reputation Abuse Policy Expands To First Party Involvement Or Content Oversight

Also: To repeat something that I've said here before, Google needs to penalize parent sites (such as Forbes dot com) that are engaging in "reputation abuse." Otherwise, the parent sites might as well go ahead and do the same thing again.

Comment ID #6596576168 11/20/2024 06:56 pm

DataDonkey commented on Google Site Reputation Abuse Policy Expands To First Party Involvement Or Content Oversight

It's all part of Google's DEI policy - Destroy Everyone's Income so Google can make bank. DuckDuckGo calls for EU to widen its Digital Markets Act probe of Google - <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/20/duckduckgo-calls-for-eu-to-widen-its-digital-markets-act-probe-of-google/">https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/20/duckduckgo-calls-for-eu-to-widen-its-digital-markets-act-probe-of-google/</a> <blockquote>Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo has urged the European Union to widen its Digital Markets Act (DMA) investigation into Google, claiming the search giant is in breach of several areas where the bloc has yet to formally probe the company’s compliance.</blockquote>Not a big fan of the Duck, but it's good they are quacking about the Google Crime Syndicate.

Comment ID #6596573710 11/20/2024 06:51 pm

Brody Hall commented on Google Site Reputation Abuse Policy Expands To First Party Involvement Or Content Oversight

Google's HCU is still a hot mess—they haven't been able to reverse any site-wide penalties. Is this why they're cautious of algorithmically imposing their site reputation abuse policy and handing down manual actions instead? Tanking large sites with plenty of capital to sue would undoubtedly put the wind up them.

Comment ID #6596546419 11/20/2024 06:01 pm

Zorlax commented on Google Site Reputation Abuse Policy Expands To First Party Involvement Or Content Oversight

Report them to Google using the Feedback link located in the three dots to the right of the search result.

Comment ID #6596529655 11/20/2024 05:32 pm

AngleGrinderBrahh commented on Google Site Reputation Abuse Policy Expands To First Party Involvement Or Content Oversight

u mean deranked

Comment ID #6596492660 11/20/2024 04:29 pm

Sensei commented on Google Site Reputation Abuse Policy Expands To First Party Involvement Or Content Oversight

Well said wise cat. While it's great to see Forbes parasites finally wiped out in sectors they don't belong like in the legal sector, it still is just a futile game of whack-a-mole unless Google targets parasites algorithomically. Of course Google won't target them all algorithmically, since it would take out their Redditphag boyfriends who are now benefiting even more from this update since their parasite competition like Forbes is removed. Given how greedy the sinister and sadistic soy fucks at Google are, I wouldn't doubt this update is just a ruse under targeting "site reputation abuse" when it's actually designed just to take out Reddit's competition since Google is in bed with them both financially and literally.

Comment ID #6596475431 11/20/2024 04:03 pm

Durant Imboden commented on Google Site Reputation Abuse Policy Expands To First Party Involvement Or Content Oversight

Better late than never, and while it may be a baby step in the overall scheme of things, it's a baby step in the right direction.

Comment ID #6596440327 11/20/2024 03:10 pm

Ted (or Big T) commented on Google Site Reputation Abuse Policy Expands To First Party Involvement Or Content Oversight

It can. Before deindex - 10000 users per day, now is 800.

Comment ID #6596391642 11/20/2024 01:58 pm

Ted (or Big T) commented on Google Site Reputation Abuse Policy Expands To First Party Involvement Or Content Oversight

Yeap. All links.

Comment ID #6596390700 11/20/2024 01:56 pm

John D commented on Google Site Reputation Abuse Policy Expands To First Party Involvement Or Content Oversight

Tell me when spamming sites like Screenrant, CBR, TheGamer gets penalized, all owned by the same spam company Valnet

Comment ID #6596383374 11/20/2024 01:46 pm

Jewish Cat Who Does S̶E̶O̶ commented on Google Site Reputation Abuse Policy Expands To First Party Involvement Or Content Oversight

Your site got totally deindexed?

Comment ID #6596368193 11/20/2024 01:23 pm

2001 commented on Google Site Reputation Abuse Policy Expands To First Party Involvement Or Content Oversight

How old was your site and what were your daily traffic numbers? Surely, it can't go to zero overnight.

Comment ID #6596368092 11/20/2024 01:23 pm

Jewish Cat Who Does S̶E̶O̶ commented on Google Site Reputation Abuse Policy Expands To First Party Involvement Or Content Oversight

I mean, Black Friday and the festive season is just round the corner.... Of course they are going to double down on commercial/buyer intent keyword and phrases. Imagine if you're a small business owner who relies on SEO... You bought bulk of goods in preparation for the upcoming shopping season and holidays. Your rankings were okay but now you see your traffic is shuffling with conversions going zero. Now you're pressured because if no one buys your goods, who da fuck will want to buy after that? Imagine if the items you're selling are Christmas/New Year decor, winter clothing, .etc. So now you're desperately signing up for Adwords, paying Adwords 'specialist' a fee or hourly charge, and allocating or increasing your ad budget. But wait, everyone out there is doing the same; existing Adwords users will increase their ad budget too. Now CPC is off the roof and your profit margin is razor thin. It's deplorable.

Comment ID #6596367719 11/20/2024 01:23 pm

Ted (or Big T) commented on Google Site Reputation Abuse Policy Expands To First Party Involvement Or Content Oversight

This is END. All website deindexed, traffic go down to 0.

Comment ID #6596366420 11/20/2024 01:21 pm

Jewish Cat Who Does S̶E̶O̶ commented on Google Site Reputation Abuse Policy Expands To First Party Involvement Or Content Oversight

Yeap, ad revenue is their main objective - as always. Whatever they're doing now is just buying time. Never forget how they string-ed us back after May Core Update of 2022; followed by the introduction of the first HCU in August 2022. Then in 2023, they spent the time telling us to "wait" and promised "hidden gems update" and whatnot. When September 2023 HCU killed many people, DS came up with some BS "sorry" presentation saying Google is not perfect. Then they try to buy time again by saying "We're going to release the most ambitious update ever" and told us to wait. March-April 2024 updates came and it was a disaster. When the outrage became even more than ever, they used HouseFresh and RDD. They interviewed, invited them to their HQ, and subsequently recovered their rankings in August Core Update of 2024. More articles and complaints about the quality of search... Even Googlers know their gaslighting and lies can't keep up anymore; so they hold this Creator Summit. Most important of all: if you remember the Pandu (or whatever his name is) has already told Morgan and the other attendees that they should NOT expect any recoveries and whatever feedback they gave may not reflect in the upcoming update. It was Morgan's tweets that went viral and everyone went into a flying outrage especially when Morgan told everyone that Googler's message was as good as telling us to "move on". It is after this huge outrage that, miraculously, Morgan's and the other attendees' sites are now seeing recoveries - something that Pandu told them it won't happen during the summit. It is evident these are just PR stunts. They are buying time. Google Search is already on life support and they're just buying time to get publishers to continue publishing and feeding their AI. I have a feeling they know those who have been waiting can't keep waiting for long and will cave in to Adwords or leave the game altogether. The ship is sinking but the captain is lying to everyone onboard that everything's fine. The sad thing is because of their gaslighting and lies, you realised years has passed and nothing has improved.

Comment ID #6596363820 11/20/2024 01:17 pm

Google Hates Me commented on Google Site Reputation Abuse Policy Expands To First Party Involvement Or Content Oversight

I sense there is more going on than just this. Wouldn't even doubt a product reviews update happening right now with the usual collateral damage to smaller publishers. We've been up about 15% this update, but traffic seems to have fallen off a cliff in the last hour. Sigh...

Comment ID #6596362551 11/20/2024 01:15 pm

EvelyneM commented on Google Site Reputation Abuse Policy Expands To First Party Involvement Or Content Oversight

OK but the US and UK coupons SERPs were impacted in May. 6 months after, Europe is still waiting, the news websites dominate the results.

Comment ID #6596357660 11/20/2024 01:08 pm

UncleKrusty commented on Google Site Reputation Abuse Policy Expands To First Party Involvement Or Content Oversight

I'm sure Google measures the success of algorithmic changes by how much more money they make. The whack a mole limited penalties Google dishes out are merely PR moves. I still believe the reason why Google is not investing much into organic results (ranking) is because they intend on replacing them with AIO in the near future. It won't happen overnight but I suspect as organic results get pushed down further, or to page 2+, it will become more apparent to all of us.

Comment ID #6596346417 11/20/2024 12:52 pm

Jewish Cat Who Does S̶E̶O̶ commented on Google Site Reputation Abuse Policy Expands To First Party Involvement Or Content Oversight

That's why as long as it is not algorithmic, this 'site reputation abuse' update is not effective at all. Like using a fly swapper to swap mosquitos in a jungle. Even if Forbes and the big notable ones get eradicated, new ones will take their place. And they're not in the limelight yet since everyone is now just focusing and celebrating on Forbes' elimination. After the update and as the results settle down, we will start seeing new parasite SEOs ranking at the top. Then complaints will start mounting again and we have to wait for another manual action on these sites. It is just... pointless. They should just rollback the algorithm prior to 2020 and it will fix everything. Remember when 'parasite SEOs' weren't much of an issue back then? We were getting relevant and accurate search results. Big and small publishers had equal opportunities to rank. It was fair and it was great to users.

Comment ID #6596337839 11/20/2024 12:39 pm

CeeCee Graves commented on Google Site Reputation Abuse Policy Expands To First Party Involvement Or Content Oversight

Not just Forbes either.

Comment ID #6596325594 11/20/2024 12:22 pm

CeeCee Graves commented on Google Site Reputation Abuse Policy Expands To First Party Involvement Or Content Oversight

Big media sites get de-indexed and penalized and now the SERP is absolute garbage. Still big sites ranking that are all owned by the same 3 or 4 companies. And many sites are membership where you have to pay to even get answers to the query. Consumer Reports, really? Oh yeah, we have the best xyz for you but you have to pay a membership fee to find out what they are!

Comment ID #6596325044 11/20/2024 12:21 pm

MrSEO commented on Google Site Reputation Abuse Policy Expands To First Party Involvement Or Content Oversight

blatant abuse and spam, 2 million backlinks? lol pumping out thousands of low quality pages over and over changing the tites slightly

Comment ID #6596318544 11/20/2024 12:12 pm

Jacek Rużyczka commented on Google Site Reputation Abuse Policy Expands To First Party Involvement Or Content Oversight

Because most parasite content is written in English, so that it's obvious to start with English-language websites when introducing a new anti-spam policy.

Comment ID #6596315189 11/20/2024 12:07 pm

Bobby commented on Google Site Reputation Abuse Policy Expands To First Party Involvement Or Content Oversight

Forbes Advisor was just deindexed. I don't get it. I couldn't see how it was spam when I checked it on Bing. I don't like the look of all of these complications in general. Be careful what you wish for. You have to somehow get around all if these booby traps you ask for.

Comment ID #6596305800 11/20/2024 11:52 am

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