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John A. User commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

I bet if you were to objectively review the AI Overview, it'll be all perfect and great. Google makes the SERPs awful so people rely on the AI Overviews which then will give them an excuse to get rid of the 10 blue links.

Comment ID #6838474003 02/16/2026 03:14 am

Todd commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

The SERPs are awful, and full of hacked and repurposed crap. It's embarassing to be honest that Google has let it go for so long. I agree with you, there must be something mammoth of the horizon, but I'm not convinced those working hard will prosper from it. I now have 3 sites that wait for my reviews, and then spin it through AI and pass the work off as their own. It's changed just enough to make a takedown difficult, and then all 3 sites rank above me. Two of them are major competitors, and have doubled in traffic size off the back of my work whilst I have lost 30-40%. Any update that comes along I think they will all get hit, but all that happens is they grow bigger and I lose more traffic. There is so much AI it just feels to me like it won't ever get better.

Comment ID #6838469256 02/16/2026 02:43 am

Ashley Elegant commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

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Comment ID #6838456280 02/16/2026 01:04 am

Helmut B. commented on New Google Search Console Features Delayed?

The AI powered configuration tool is not worth the hype. It guesses regEx which half of the don't do what you want them to. You are not missing much Barry ... ;-)

Comment ID #6838405496 02/15/2026 07:44 pm

Dan commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

This happens every single day, and yet still no change here. In excess of 95% down, wiped from News, Discover and Search. I keep publishing everyday as normal, trying to tweak the content where possible. Can't believe I now pray for a core update to even bring me back 5% of my traffic, because what can possibly happen, I lose a further 3%? Nice

Comment ID #6838401196 02/15/2026 07:25 pm

DataDonkey commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

Google just doesn't care. They'll even steal your voice and use it as their own. <b>Longtime NPR host David Greene sues Google over NotebookLM voice</b> - <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/longtime-npr-host-david-greene-220751329.html">https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/longtime-npr-host-david-greene-220751329.html</a> <blockquote>David Greene, the longtime host of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” is suing Google, alleging that the male podcast voice in the company’s NotebookLM tool is based on Greene, according to The Washington Post. Greene said that after friends, family members, and coworkers began emailing him about the resemblance, he became convinced that the voice was replicating his cadence, intonation, and use of filler words like “uh.”</blockquote>

Comment ID #6838397925 02/15/2026 07:10 pm

googleisjoke commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

once google tastes it, they will never go back!

Comment ID #6838328142 02/15/2026 03:21 pm

DataDonkey commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

Amazon is supposed to be working on a marketplace for media publishers to sell their content to AI companies. That would be another greedy middleman between the publisher and end users that erodes publisher earnings. Even if these marketplaces are created, it won't apply to most non-media publishers who will be shut out just like we're being shut out now with ever declining traffic. Why would any AI company want to pay smaller publishers when they've already taken all their content for free? I think smaller publishers have already been gutted by big tech and won't return. Some will continue producing content, but with little to no earnings for their time they will conclude at some point it's time to quit or use AI to publish massive amounts of slop until that too becomes ineffective.

Comment ID #6838327324 02/15/2026 03:19 pm

John A. User commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

No, greed is too powerful

Comment ID #6838320645 02/15/2026 03:02 pm

Musadiqkhan commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

Will this ever get back to normal? It's been almost a month with high volatility

Comment ID #6838308562 02/15/2026 02:31 pm

MrSEO commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

But cable tv was the only infrastructure.. there were no other options. and when one come along like the internet. now look at them, a dying breed. just like mainstream media. there will be a stage where they have to pay or reward peopel for content or just spew gibberish out which is the stage we are at now., in 2022 you could see it starting but now it's almost unusable.

Comment ID #6838304376 02/15/2026 02:20 pm

DataDonkey commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

Google will not stop until they disembowel the entire web because there's nothing to stop them. In my opinion, what will survive are big brands and Google. Almost like having cable TV with a thousand channels that are all owned by a handful of big companies. If you want to be found, then you will have to pay for commercials. Those with a following (blogs, forums, etc) that's keeping them alive with some traffic now will suffer attrition and decline as being discovered gets more difficult/costly. At least for the next few years I see no other direction because we have geriatrics in Washington DC who know nothing about technology except that it's cool to attack their political enemies with AI slop they created. Even if a new administration comes into power that views Google as the criminal enterprise they are, and not humanity's savior the current delusional administration thinks it is, the damage done will have been permanent.

Comment ID #6838294446 02/15/2026 01:55 pm

googleisjoke commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

I'm experiencing this already my whole life as I have asperger, 99% of poeple are strangers to me, I'm too normal to be weird, but too weird to be normal, so nobody notices, and I'm like a shade

Comment ID #6838283682 02/15/2026 01:28 pm

MrSEO commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

We are due a big update and I don't just mean another core update. We all see the results and they get worse and worse, you tube is also dominated by ai slop and it can be easy to see. AI is intelligent enough now to see in the serps slop, hacked sites and repurposed domains spewing out garbage. the parasite seo never got it's kicking and big media still keeps pushing medicocre content with 3 or 4 fact checker bios to fool eeat. People are now using othe methods to search. Usually there is a march update perhaps this year it comes around earlier?

Comment ID #6838237716 02/15/2026 11:28 am

John A. User commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

Google.AI , the future so when the world has become inhabitable, it'll not notice we've gone and carry on.

Comment ID #6838225315 02/15/2026 10:55 am

googleisjoke commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

imagine - google will be adding these updates forever and everybody will be dead, nobody will read about it lol!

Comment ID #6838223206 02/15/2026 10:50 am

Sam commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility February 10th

I was searching for some advice on a topic just now and noticed the large retailers who have a blog about a topic are being cited in AIO, and the small independent voice I was looking for was nowhere to be seen. My concern is that AIO is giving weight to large domains rather than smaller publishers whose core offering is the actual topic I was searching for. I thought there was an update to correct this in main search but it seems it has not happened in AIO. I just looked at my own competitors and can see a competitor which created 1 million AI pages that tanked in traditional ....is doing well in AI Overviews. It is so messed up. They have not applied the same ranking systems in AI overviews than they have in AI traditional search. Clearly, favoring large companies or AI content.

Comment ID #6838179060 02/15/2026 08:46 am

Sam commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility February 10th

Have you done a server audit? Just go into terminal on your server and check everything is ok using AI e.g. no 500 errors, that google can crawl ok, any plugin errors etc. Read only commands.

Comment ID #6838155109 02/15/2026 07:21 am

Sam commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility February 10th

Thank you for giving me instructions on seeing AIO I just saw this.their own numbers have to be telling them this is destroying ad revenue per query. Every AI Overview that answers the question directly is a query where nobody clicks not on ads, not on organic results. And ads are 80% of Alphabet's revenue. Crazy. If they are banking on wiping us out so advertisors will be forced to advertise in AI they are very very wrong. ive found myself searching much more on social media now.Every time Google makes its own product worse, it pushes more people toward my socials. Google is literally training its biggest customers to spend elsewhere.

Comment ID #6838154485 02/15/2026 07:18 am

DataDonkey commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility February 10th

Discover update launched on Feb 5 is still going, but the reason for most of our pain is ai overviews. Google uses announced updates to mask new or expanded features in search, and the Discover update is no different. Look at the graph and ai overviews jumped and stayed steady once Google announced Gemini 3 was being used and right after the Discover update launched. Imagine how Gemini 5, 6, etc. will help Google steal & serve even more of our content to users. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6cec94d50dc69ed83d1b05df2469b6d2fb19971c4aabc3c68ead1139f9fe8e01.gif

Comment ID #6838119965 02/15/2026 04:35 am

Ted (or Big T) commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility February 10th

No, I don't think so. My competitor have Rocket for cache, him traffic is very good.

Comment ID #6838113938 02/15/2026 04:03 am

googleisjoke commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility February 10th

yes that just tells that no matter how good / big it is, it can drop and backlinks?? they have so many, why they don't matter? because they don't.

Comment ID #6838112787 02/15/2026 03:56 am

clone21 commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility February 10th

Yeah, that site is gabarge now, I had checked it for years.

Comment ID #6838053577 02/14/2026 09:04 pm

PMB Brent commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility February 10th

It's a great site, and it's exactly the kind of site that Google doesn't rank anymore: niche, keyword-targeted, affiliate, not a major publication. They have clearly targeted these kinds of niche blogs, whether intentionally or not. The problem is that Google isn't honest about this; they just tell you to create helpful content. I have landed on that site many times myself over the years.

Comment ID #6838052339 02/14/2026 08:58 pm

Sam commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility February 10th

We have been featured guys on this youtube, thank you for trying to help us. We turn up every fuck@ing day guys.....at the end of his video https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5ae22a4d449bd084c57e1e9402d9bc9cbca57eaf51ceb661988a5134a162a1ce.png

Comment ID #6837946570 02/14/2026 02:58 pm

John A. User commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility February 10th

What do you mean by dropping visibility? You can find them in google or sites that use them are dropping. If you mean sites dropping because using plug-ins, I don't use WP, but I don't suspect it's because of the plug-in, I think it's a red herring, everyone looking for a reason and then blaming add-ons as a convenient excuse.

Comment ID #6837890871 02/14/2026 12:39 pm

Dimitris Abrazis commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility February 10th

I am in search of a good wordpress plugin for caching and during my search i found some reports that some plugins are dropping visibility in Google. Have you ever heard of it? What would be a good plugin? I found posts about WP-Rocket and flyingpress that are causing trouble... Could it be that?

Comment ID #6837861738 02/14/2026 11:25 am

Mark commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility February 10th

I dont think its the best site content wise, <a href="https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/make-money-online/">https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/make-money-online/</a> Stuff like that is just a massive article for the sake of being long, just filled with garbage.

Comment ID #6837827788 02/14/2026 09:59 am

googleisjoke commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility February 10th

i think best wp site

Comment ID #6837769340 02/14/2026 06:33 am

Dimitris Abrazis commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility February 10th

Exactly that. I created a website with 7m pageviews per month in a 10m country just by working 15 hours per day. this is what they want to take away from me

Comment ID #6837768649 02/14/2026 06:29 am

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