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Mumuu commented on Google Says Helpful Content Update Recoveries May Take Much Longer Than Others

made my day!!! Great to see others taking a stance against such cases because otherwise 99.99% of people here would have cried about this sad story too. https://media1.giphy.com/media/1SMRSdTGqgAOQ/giphy-downsized-small.mp4

Comment ID #6450114806 05/03/2024 01:05 pm

Mark commented on Google Says Helpful Content Update Recoveries May Take Much Longer Than Others

Maybe stop selling links to spam gambling sites - https://worldtravelfamily.com/options-to-earn-money-while-travelling/ That's going to help more than any of those non-fixes you posted about on your blog.

Comment ID #6450111496 05/03/2024 01:05 pm

TryingToFeedFamily commented on Forbes Completely Removes Coupon Directory - 410 Pages

I wonder if they will be 410'ing their toaster, snow tire, dating app, blender, dog food, (insert anything here) sections

Comment ID #6450101737 05/03/2024 01:05 pm

Serge Starenko commented on May 2024 Google Webmaster Report: Core Update, Site Reputation Abuse, SEO, SGE, Local & More

Thank you for your reply but I don't see there anything about the redirecting. That's why I'm asking

Comment ID #6450082404 05/03/2024 12:05 pm

Helle Sommer commented on Google Says Helpful Content Update Recoveries May Take Much Longer Than Others

This is a great great article, i sure hope Google reads it

Comment ID #6450071876 05/03/2024 12:05 pm

John A. User commented on Google SGE AI Answers Cost 80% Less To Generate Now

May cost less but won't help our sites, if AI now costs less, they'll be aggressive now.

Comment ID #6450071033 05/03/2024 12:05 pm

Jewish Cat Who Does SEO commented on Google Says Helpful Content Update Recoveries May Take Much Longer Than Others

It is so bad now that I miss the hackers and bots trying to brute-force their way to my website... At least their visits tell me that they found my website via Google Search or something =')

Comment ID #6450070164 05/03/2024 12:05 pm

John A. User commented on Google Says Helpful Content Update Recoveries May Take Much Longer Than Others

Or maybe info are ditching too because of how BING has tied up ChatGPT to everywhere, Office, the keyboard, the taskbar etc. Sadly @DataDonkey , it might be unrelated to search results, it maybe because of how Microsoft is pushing it and maybe they don't care who provides the results. Glad your seeing increased sales for whatever reason though.

Comment ID #6450069874 05/03/2024 12:05 pm

nathan commented on Google Says Helpful Content Update Recoveries May Take Much Longer Than Others

At this point, I might get more visitors from ChatGPT search by the end of next week ^^

Comment ID #6450069722 05/03/2024 12:05 pm

Jacek Rużyczka commented on Google Says Helpful Content Update Recoveries May Take Much Longer Than Others

For commercial high-volume, high-CPC keywords, your infographic approximates reality quite well. I've just tried out the keyword <i>Der beste Treppenlift</i> (the best stairlift; you know; these moving chairs installed in a staircase to help impaired people reach the 2nd floor). As these one-man retrofit elevators are fairly expensive and its vendors can get high margins on them, this keyword is extremely competitive. So there is some motivation to employ grey-hat (or even black-hat) SEO in order to rank better. Results: 🕱 #1 thru #3 are sponsored and mostly lead to well-known manufacturers (#1 & #3). One of them leads to a so-called "product review" website. 🕱 On the right, there is a Google Shopping box. Also sponsored. 🕱 #4 presumes to offer independent advice, but its text is overoptimised blah-blah, and its links lead to so-called product comparison portals. 🕱 #5 is a product comparison conducted by a big private TV station. Independent? Maybe yes. 🕱 #6 thru #9 remind me of #4. 🕱 Finally, #10 is a well-known, independent (yeah, really!) product comparison portal. Conclusion: For someone looking for solid advice on which stairlift to buy, only two (#5 and #10) search results are valuable.

Comment ID #6450060574 05/03/2024 11:05 am

DataDonkey commented on Google Says Helpful Content Update Recoveries May Take Much Longer Than Others

Even if the stats aren't meaningful for market share, they are meaningful in showing Google's slaughter of small publishers and businesses.

Comment ID #6450055508 05/03/2024 11:05 am

DataDonkey commented on Google Says Helpful Content Update Recoveries May Take Much Longer Than Others

Look to the picture where it says they are reviewing the data for April. Despite this, we see very strong sales from other search engines while Google remains shit. So maybe buyers are the ones ditching Google and not those searching for information. And the problem for information sites is there may be thousands of competitors trying to rank for the same keywords and is therefore statistically difficult to achieve and retain good ranks. But in this modern day, Google's spamming of the ads and People Also Piss box are all that rank for us. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/14131d9a36e139e296fd1aada05cbd9cf3a1f46445e63c776cf344a3d89e121f.jpg

Comment ID #6450054391 05/03/2024 11:05 am

Bdachange commented on Google Says Helpful Content Update Recoveries May Take Much Longer Than Others

Bing is just as bad as Google, my bing impressions keep increasing but only for their knowledge panel which lead to no clicks to my site, since all the info is now on their search page.

Comment ID #6450053916 05/03/2024 11:05 am

Bruno Ramos Lara commented on Google AdSense Removed Privacy Policy As Place To Withdraw Consent

The change simply means that, in the banner text, there will no longer be a reference to your privacy policy to revoke consent. It also doesn't make much sense. Adsense includes this revocation message in the footer of any page of a website that uses it, example: https://prnt.sc/gl_f_Kv_HEkZ

Comment ID #6450052516 05/03/2024 11:05 am

Handykult commented on Google Says Helpful Content Update Recoveries May Take Much Longer Than Others

The statistics may not be entirely meaningful, but the direction should at least be correct. Because, contrary to the general seasonal trend, I receive more visitors from Bing and other search engines from week to week. Bing visitors - with unchanged rankings according to Bing Webmaster Tools.

Comment ID #6450040949 05/03/2024 11:05 am

Mumuu commented on Google Says Helpful Content Update Recoveries May Take Much Longer Than Others

very likely so (sadly but that's more likely than what people presume here). Maybe G hit the ceiling in terms of further growth but hey that's a cycle every business is facing (I feel is far from the decline everyone is celebrating so early), cannot start the party due to that. Instead is more bad news for smaller publishers and SMEs which is the picture not many from these sharing same StatsCounter graph do not seem to realize. If is any party that is over that's for the smaller fishes first, not for G.

Comment ID #6450040684 05/03/2024 11:05 am

Cunir commented on Google Says Helpful Content Update Recoveries May Take Much Longer Than Others

I’m taking it with a pinch of salt until their share price starts dropping. Their profits are so closely tied to search ads that a drop of that size would have had an effect by now

Comment ID #6450040286 05/03/2024 11:05 am

Golden Phoenix commented on Google Says Helpful Content Update Recoveries May Take Much Longer Than Others

My problem is this: if Google wants to make more money and do deals, they can. They have no right marketing their product as "organic search." It is deceptive. It reminds me of a couple of decades ago when we had search engines and then paid directories. Google is not an organic search company anymore. They should be forced to admit it. Unfortunately, our government is bought and paid for and consumers have no protection here.

Comment ID #6450039900 05/03/2024 10:05 am

Cristi commented on Google Says Helpful Content Update Recoveries May Take Much Longer Than Others

So what the graph is saying pretty much is that they took the traffic from websites that are using statcounter and they gave it to reddit, quorra etc. But the users are still using Google just as much as before.

Comment ID #6450039445 05/03/2024 10:05 am

Golden Phoenix commented on Google Says Helpful Content Update Recoveries May Take Much Longer Than Others

It's a great infographic. I would have added the link but I wasn't sure if it is allowed in the comments. I have a website very similar to yours but covering other tech products. We are also hit just like you. It's infuriating.

Comment ID #6450037495 05/03/2024 10:05 am

MrSEO commented on Google Says Helpful Content Update Recoveries May Take Much Longer Than Others

Most of us don't have any traffic anymore lol, I'm intrigued to see how open ai with bing are going to compete, I suspect they will team up with yahoo as it has an established name in the USA and they have been working on a new search experience, I remember the days when yahoo dominated and you had various traffic sources. Google has got to big but every dog has its day and every empire falls. Greed kills

Comment ID #6450030839 05/03/2024 10:05 am

Mark commented on Google Says Helpful Content Update Recoveries May Take Much Longer Than Others

Fake news, reddit/quora etc don't use Statcounter.

Comment ID #6450029894 05/03/2024 10:05 am

Mumuu commented on Google Says Helpful Content Update Recoveries May Take Much Longer Than Others

finally someone with critical thinking! Most people do not understand the stats they look at it seems. If that rate would be the real rate of decline G MoM, in a few mths G would have to be at minus 50% ...

Comment ID #6450025966 05/03/2024 10:05 am

D0mD0m commented on Google Says Helpful Content Update Recoveries May Take Much Longer Than Others

don't be so happy. It also might mean, that a large proportion of websites (including our websites) gets less traffic from Google and that large websites dominate even more since the latest core update.

Comment ID #6450024825 05/03/2024 10:05 am

Moto Gsprx commented on Google Says Helpful Content Update Recoveries May Take Much Longer Than Others

You should select till "May 2024". There's new data .. just today

Comment ID #6450022860 05/03/2024 10:05 am

mark commented on Google Says Helpful Content Update Recoveries May Take Much Longer Than Others

Yeah, I don't think anything will happen on May the 5th.

Comment ID #6450021021 05/03/2024 10:05 am

Rafael commented on Google Says Helpful Content Update Recoveries May Take Much Longer Than Others

At this rate, at the end of the year, I think Microsoft Bing will pass Google at least for desktop in the USA. The drop in April was GIGANTIC: https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share/desktop/united-states-of-america

Comment ID #6450016900 05/03/2024 09:05 am

Jewish Cat Who Does SEO commented on Google Says Helpful Content Update Recoveries May Take Much Longer Than Others

Oh wait... yeah... And meeting at such circumstance isn't a 'happy' thing... Fuck Google. And honestly, it seems to be getting worse as we speak. I'm noticing ranking drops for some websites... Only to learn that my websites are outranked by Reddit, social media sites, and whatnot. My 'faith' in the 5th May update is dwindling...

Comment ID #6450014036 05/03/2024 09:05 am

mark commented on Google Says Helpful Content Update Recoveries May Take Much Longer Than Others

Strange, the Friday morning shake-up made my SERPs crap again. I don't know how anyone can build a business with Google doing this crap... I just stop paying attention to it during the weekend, as it's fine during the week but hopefully the May 5th update fixes this. I don't count on Google doing anything about this crap, but I still like to hope that something will happen. As for my HCU hit site, I'm just gonna redo my content on a new domain. HCU penalized sites are just going to die eventually, so there's no use waiting on a miracle, just make a new site and start over at this point.

Comment ID #6450006687 05/03/2024 09:05 am

D0mD0m commented on Google Says Helpful Content Update Recoveries May Take Much Longer Than Others

why? doesn't change anything.

Comment ID #6450004440 05/03/2024 09:05 am

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