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Below are the most recent 30 comments. I try to keep it clean of comment spam, but some times things get through and it takes me several hours to get to it. So please excuse any of that comment spam.
Connor commented on
Google AI Overviews With Direct Event Display
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Comment ID #6802807717
11/29/2025 04:46 am
Ted (or Big T) commented on
Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility
Total sh*t. Traffic totaly dead, what to do?
Comment ID #6802800569
11/29/2025 04:03 am
Golden Phoenix commented on
Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility
I don't want to do slop. I know prompt engineering a little bit. I want to make my own music videos, maybe educational content. Not slop. You don't see me make videos of Pikachu getting cooked for lunch. That's not my thing.
Comment ID #6802700981
11/28/2025 06:31 pm
Golden Phoenix commented on
Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility
Nah. It's over. I have spent most of my savings. 3 years of spending my own savings. People think I am insane and it is kind of insane doing that.
Comment ID #6802700726
11/28/2025 06:30 pm
Golden Phoenix commented on
Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility
I don't think they care.
Comment ID #6802700465
11/28/2025 06:29 pm
Sam commented on
Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility
Check out depreciation of AI on the balance sheets, and also the fact the big tech are moving money to each other. Clicks have gone insane due to people thinking ads are organic traffic but people won't be buying as it was an accident.
Comment ID #6802659572
11/28/2025 04:32 pm
Sam commented on
Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility
No I am not. People here need to do some research in the accounts, and depreciation. Traffic is now not able to discover those bargains due to being constrained to keyword only searches. The discoverability of products has now gone down I am afraid which among all the other crazy AI stuff results in drop. Corn ads is even appearing in youtube as they are showing these now. The quality of ads we will see will lower I am afraid.
Comment ID #6802658062
11/28/2025 04:27 pm
Case commented on
Google Local Pack Jumps To Places Tab With Pagination Bug
This just started happening for me last month. At around the same time where businesses 3000 miles away from mine are showing up in the search results for "more businesses" too. There is something seriously wrong with google business search and it started around the last week of October. I also had 12 legitimate reviews drop off for one of the GBP's I manage. What is going on google?!?!?
Comment ID #6802627512
11/28/2025 03:08 pm
John A. User commented on
Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility
Agree, but it won't get better any time soon, thanks to an inept judiciary and corrupt government.
Comment ID #6802613614
11/28/2025 02:30 pm
UncleKrusty commented on
Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility
He edited his post above to say "compared to pre-AI overviews" or I missed it at first. Google just had a record breaking quarter ($100 billion) post AI overviews, so it would appear Google is earning more money with AIO then without. Makes sense since Google took our content, traffic and the earnings we all once had.
Comment ID #6802583116
11/28/2025 01:07 pm
John A. User commented on
Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility
@disqus_tCRyPV6vXh:disqus probably means AdSense, but their Sponsored Links more than make up for the shortfall and more. They probably don't reveal how much each makes; they just total it up to hide the drop in Adsense.
Or maybe Sam is talking about how much Sam has dropped by as an example. Would like to know where the 70% is from.
Comment ID #6802576609
11/28/2025 12:49 pm
OKmann commented on
Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility
Rankings for our main site got hammered earlier this week. Positions we've held for 3-4 years in the top 10 are now nowhere to be seen.
Comment ID #6802572705
11/28/2025 12:39 pm
John A. User commented on
Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility
Lol, thanks, how I could not remember that, there's so much adverts on it.
Comment ID #6802571164
11/28/2025 12:35 pm
UncleKrusty commented on
OpenAI Scaling Up Crawling & Bots
ChatGPT is directing shoppers to completely different products sold on Etsy when they click on our product images. Of course I reported it to them and within an hour I received an email stating they found no policy violation. Doesn't matter how much they crawl when they are using our images to promote Etsy. Might not be long before we block them too.
Comment ID #6802555928
11/28/2025 11:55 am
UncleKrusty commented on
Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility
You may be right that Google is now taking what little traffic remained. Regarding your other comment above <i>"google must be freaked out at the fact advertising is 70% this thanksgiving weekend" </i>where did you find this information at?
Comment ID #6802551546
11/28/2025 11:44 am
Sam commented on
Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility
Hold out. I see them switching strategies when they realise ad revenue is down 70% this week. Mess with the cash cow and the whole thing comes crashing down.
Comment ID #6802539356
11/28/2025 11:14 am
Sam commented on
Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility
I disagree. No-one is making the money. No one is clicking this is the hole they have dug and it will only get worse. Google created this with the stupid AI overviews that don't yield anything but server power and expense.
Comment ID #6802538071
11/28/2025 11:11 am
Sam commented on
Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility
I think they have gone for a no click internet that means no revenue.
Comment ID #6802537572
11/28/2025 11:09 am
Sam commented on
Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility
For some reason I think google must be freaked out at the fact advertising is 70% down this thanksgiving weekend compared to pre-AI overviews, must be such a blow and I am sure emergency meetings are happening as you read this... and they wonder why. The idea of let's stuff ads in AI has not paid off nor will. Let's see how much AIO has fallen anyone know where this is tracked? I have a friend in youtube big creator >3million subs and they are spamming youtube hard with ads. People are getting annoyed.
Comment ID #6802536771
11/28/2025 11:07 am
UncleKrusty commented on
Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility
My guess this is just another holiday shopping season money grab by Google. Sales from Google have been non-existent. I checked out ChatGPT this morning and was blown away by the garbage results. I used ChatGPT to search for products within our product category and a variety of product images were displayed. Click on those product images and they all lead to completely different products sold on Etsy. I recall OpenAI made a deal with Etsy, and this is how it manifests itself - duping users with incorrect product images that lead to different products sold on Etsy when clicked on.
Edit: I checked a few different product categories and the results are the same - images incorrectly or intentionally mapped to Etsy products within the same product category.
Comment ID #6802521643
11/28/2025 10:28 am
SnowInWinter commented on
Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility
To me, this doesn't look like an update, but rather a kind of 'Google hiccup', as we used to call it. Especially around Black Friday/Cyber Monday, I'm not particularly surprised.
Comment ID #6802518262
11/28/2025 10:19 am
FokGoogle commented on
Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility
Black Friday Cyber Monday
Comment ID #6802507318
11/28/2025 09:50 am
MrSEO commented on
Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility
It really is just as simple as buying some random old site and just repurpose content to whatever is profitable with mass AI slop. this is the results now.
Comment ID #6802504949
11/28/2025 09:44 am
Ziko commented on
Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility
Have you lost Google Discover traffic like me?
Have you noticed that X and YouTube are taking over Discover?
Comment ID #6802499157
11/28/2025 09:28 am
John A. User commented on
Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility
Agree with what you said but also what's BF/CM please?
Comment ID #6802486752
11/28/2025 08:53 am
FokGoogle commented on
Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility
I used to make tens of thousands of dollars BF/CM weekend. Looks like this time I'm going to make hundreds. Lots of garbage zombie Google traffic. Google is taking all the converting traffic for themselves.
Comment ID #6802480736
11/28/2025 08:35 am
John A. User commented on
Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility
Yeah, slightly more from lesser SE but if you scaled it up....
Comment ID #6802479814
11/28/2025 08:32 am
Ekees SEO commented on
Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility
I get more slightly more visitors from Bing and Duckduckgo. I rank well there. As with all the other SEs, like qwant, <a href="startpage.com">startpage.com</a> etc.
Comment ID #6802476818
11/28/2025 08:23 am
John A. User commented on
Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility
It seems I'm getting more visitors from Bing now than Google, like everyone else. Remember, Google 90% and Bing is 5%, imagine what we'd all be like if Bing were the other way round.
Bing screams and shouts, but doesn't do anything to improve. Here are some tips for Bing...
1. Declutter your interface,
2. Stop trying to emulate Google without thinking.
3. Have a video/image/PAA version of the results like Google Web results and have it default if people want it <- Ok emulate Google on this one though.
4. Advertise properly
Thats a start.....
Comment ID #6802475112
11/28/2025 08:18 am
John A. User commented on
Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility
We had one in London, don't know if you'd seen it... It was removed in the end...
<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15305659/Cote-Brasserie-AI-generated-mural-Christmas.html">https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15305659/Cote-Brasserie-AI-generated-mural-Christmas.html</a>
They were probably thinking no one would look close at it and when you do, sheesh.... Have a look at the pictures.
Comment ID #6802473768
11/28/2025 08:13 am
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