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Golden Phoenix commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated December 3-4

Have no idea what Google is up to but we are bombarded with bots from China, Singapore and Hongkong for months now. I have blocked China traffic completely and just blocked 380 IPs from Singapore. I thought it was me but I have heard from numerous webmasters that bots from these countries are on the rise for them too.

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Juan commented on Google Search Console Performance Reports & Page Indexing Delayed

LOL

Comment ID #6805206945 12/04/2025 04:08 pm

John A. User commented on Google Search Console Performance Reports & Page Indexing Delayed

aka Make Google Even More Money Update

Comment ID #6805204083 12/04/2025 04:01 pm

Diego Savino commented on 100MB Video File Won't Have A Noticeable Effect On Your SEO, Google Says

No one at the company told him about Navboost. He's Baghdad Bob at this point.

Comment ID #6805162476 12/04/2025 02:31 pm

UncleKrusty commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated December 3-4

A SEL story <a href="https://searchengineland.com/black-friday-2025-more-expensive-still-engaging-465575">https://searchengineland.com/black-friday-2025-more-expensive-still-engaging-465575</a> notes Black Friday 2025 ad spend was up roughly 17% and ROI down 32% for ecommerce and down 13% for lead generation.

Comment ID #6805159726 12/04/2025 02:25 pm

MrSEO commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated December 3-4

Where did you get this 70% spend number from?

Comment ID #6805151131 12/04/2025 02:08 pm

MrSEO commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated December 3-4

They have said before upon updates..the resources get pooled which conflicts with other parts. usually its a sign soemthign is about to drop but it's almost Friday and most updates drop Wed or Thu morning, and if nothing by 15th Dec then everyone is on holiday until the 10th of Jan usually

Comment ID #6805150883 12/04/2025 02:07 pm

OKmann commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated December 3-4

Absolutely insane BFCM drop then recovery https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/dabb5839e4e974c892c689b14f056d0468223620be61e6b88fb935550362d838.png

Comment ID #6805147123 12/04/2025 01:59 pm

Sam commented on Daily Search Forum Recap: December 4, 2025

So, to get this straight, a user goes to your website via discover and then Google asks the user if they really want to stay there or read your content/or mashed up content on AI Mode only on Android? Do they not need permission from the website for that - that is not cool? "Google is adding more AI features to Google Discover, specifically pushing people from articles in Google Discover into Google AI Mode. When you click on an article from Google Discover and then click on the three dots at the top right of the screen, you are given three options to go into AI Mode."

Comment ID #6805137608 12/04/2025 01:40 pm

Sam commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated December 3-4

Yes, check out Barrys video on the 28th of November on Youtube for the figures

Comment ID #6805134652 12/04/2025 01:34 pm

OKmann commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated December 3-4

Hi Sam do you have sources or data that you could share regarding the increase in cost and decrease in ROI? The reason I ask isn't because I doubt you, in fact our advertising costs are up even more than 50% even for branded terms, but I have had a hard time finding hard data to back this up as an industry-wide thing rather than an issue on our end for the higher ups. Thanks

Comment ID #6805128058 12/04/2025 01:21 pm

UncleKrusty commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated December 3-4

I responded to your post above about Google's business model, but disqus detected it as spam. Advertisers who don't like a 37% drop in ROI are free to go somewhere else, but that somewhere else doesn't exist because of Google's dominance in search and ads. Businesses either pay or get no traffic, and many pay while passing the increased costs onto those who buy their products and services.

Comment ID #6805104787 12/04/2025 12:33 pm

Sam commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated December 3-4

Watch Barry's latest video on youtube about discover its insane

Comment ID #6805096274 12/04/2025 12:16 pm

Sam commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated December 3-4

How many years down the road are we in AI? 3 years and what has changed technology wise. Nothing. Apart from publishers traffic lost and Google charging 50% more for ad space to make up for it. What a joke.

Comment ID #6805095965 12/04/2025 12:15 pm

Sam commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated December 3-4

Yes, we're seeing lower traffic to our sites due to the crazy power hungry AI. Whatever, let them keep destroying the open web ...they will regret it when advertisors stop spending. 70% down on ad spend. Google right now are just brainwashed by AI and won't wake up.

Comment ID #6805094865 12/04/2025 12:13 pm

Sam commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated December 3-4

It's a very ill-thought-out business strategy; they are seeing it is costing advertisors 50% more, but advertisers are getting 37% lower ROI. They won't be happy. They will push budgets into other avenues. This is not a good time for anyone. I agree that pushing organic results to the bottom and starving publishers is compounding this further, which will accelerate more Google revenue losses. All for what? A competitor that was not a threat with a chatbot. I actually am unbothered right now, I think I am like 10% down for another week but hey, I know this won't carry on for more than 12 months - and the whole thing will implode.

Comment ID #6805045197 12/04/2025 10:30 am

UncleKrusty commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated December 3-4

<blockquote>AI is taking its toll on All Google servers and there's clearly a lack of CPU power to run everything. So launching a proper update may not be the way to go for the moment</blockquote>My theory varies a bit. Google wants to control all the traffic which is why AIO and AI Mode is replacing organic results. Google placing organic results at the bottom of the page is an indication of how little they care about organic search. I don't expect Google to invest much time or money in organic results because their intent is to kill them.

Comment ID #6805031058 12/04/2025 09:59 am

googleisjoke commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated December 3-4

they are pretty awkward with these updates, did anyone tell them ?

Comment ID #6805030964 12/04/2025 09:59 am

Franck Drui commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated December 3-4

I've a theory on all those delays we see (Analytics, Search console) and the lack of proper Core/Spam updates, with only small ones from time to time : AI is taking its toll on All Google servers and there's clearly a lack of CPU power to run everything. So launching a proper update may not be the way to go for the moment...

Comment ID #6805026398 12/04/2025 09:49 am

Santosh Kumar commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated December 3-4

Anyone seeing that search console is not updated from last 35 hours.

Comment ID #6805026116 12/04/2025 09:48 am

Mark Ting commented on Google Ads To Gain WhatsApp Support Notifications

Up until fairly recently, it was essentially free to text message numbers via email protocol through the carrier, if you knew who the carrier was. Like... you only had to send an email to the [email protected] -- but they stopped supporting this (the phone carriers, or at least AT&T). Ruined a free way to get contact form submissions sent via text message (was limited to single text message character count).

Comment ID #6805024579 12/04/2025 09:45 am

Sensei commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated December 3-4

At this point it is a choice to still remain confused why corrupt AF Google run by soulless thieving shitdemons wouldn't do what they said and furthermore not communicate about it or anything else that would be meaningful to anyone.

Comment ID #6805009631 12/04/2025 09:11 am

Hunar commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated December 3-4

My traffic and conversion pretty much died between Black Friday - cyber Monday. Then yesterday got a huge boost in traffic and conversions. Then today right back to it. :/

Comment ID #6805006309 12/04/2025 09:03 am

Juan commented on Google Search Console Performance Reports & Page Indexing Delayed

i fear another spam update coming this december

Comment ID #6805001049 12/04/2025 08:50 am

racefan01 commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated December 3-4

My website has been practically dead since early December. Search and Discover traffic has almost completely disappeared. It's as if the site is being deliberately limited in impressions. Revenue is near zero. What have they done again?

Comment ID #6804999724 12/04/2025 08:47 am

Sanjay N commented on Google Search Console Performance Reports & Page Indexing Delayed

https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a925059f4aaa0cfcb5cb0e0a6ccd8747d5dbec52ffcff19765e3fadbea5b75df.png Last on Nov 22.

Comment ID #6804993234 12/04/2025 08:30 am

Ekees SEO commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated December 3-4

"I am still confused why we have not had more core update, more often. And more importantly, why someone from Google didn't communicate anything about it." Not the focus of the search team anymore maybe. Just let the AI algo's do their work randomly, see what brings in the most ad dollars in collaboration with the ad team.

Comment ID #6804989973 12/04/2025 08:21 am

cini commented on Google Search Console Performance Reports & Page Indexing Delayed

same here..

Comment ID #6804985562 12/04/2025 08:09 am

Barry Schwartz commented on Search Engine Roundtable's 22nd Anniversary

um, thanks bobby

Comment ID #6804960641 12/04/2025 06:48 am

Barry Schwartz commented on Search Engine Roundtable's 22nd Anniversary

Thanks, I kinda asked that at <a href="https://www.seroundtable.com/google-more-core-updates-more-often-unlikely-40293.html">https://www.seroundtable.com/google-more-core-updates-more-often-unlikely-40293.html</a>

Comment ID #6804960589 12/04/2025 06:48 am

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