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.
Worst serps I've ever scene. Now ranking facebook posts with our industry keyword being used from scam posts that have no local relevancy. Wow. This update is broken. Taking my clients money until they fire me. Fuck this
I love how retarded Google algorithm is nowadays. Searching for an SEO company, you now get "unemployment" insurance links LOL, Google is giving everyone a hint. Good job Google, those results are very related, fking morons are working at Google. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8dac66a4b5981b944429ff6b1e11d15085ea979475aca86168a28382ac7dfe75.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/681ab040307815affa37ea4a4f20aafb7ed995924059e6444574ecde095521b1.jpg
The phrase "misery loves company" comes to mind. Many here have been fed up for a long time too, so there's no need to refrain from posting since we're all in the same boat and let off some steam every now and then.
for the long time i've not been able to comment here because I'm already fed up to google's mess but this dec 2025 update really makes me want to rage. my observation. mostly, my newer articles are those affected from deindexing, disappearing (indexed but not showing) and shuffling.
wow, Google really knows how to increase small website owner's blood pressure.
Block one country, then they move to another. When your block list gets big and effective, then they jump onto residential IP addresses. There are some stories on scraping with residential proxies, which are more risky to block unless it's just the offending IP address.
<b>Unlocking the Power of Residential Proxies for Data Scraping in 2025</b> - <a href="https://deepai.org/machine-learning-glossary-and-terms/unlocking-the-power-of-residential-proxies-for-data-scraping-in-2025">https://deepai.org/machine-learning-glossary-and-terms/unlocking-the-power-of-residential-proxies-for-data-scraping-in-2025</a>
<blockquote>In the age of big data, web scraping has become an indispensable tool for businesses and researchers alike. Whether you’re gathering competitor insights, monitoring market trends, or building machine learning datasets, having access to reliable scraping infrastructure is paramount. One critical component that can make or break your scraping efforts is the use of residential proxies.
Residential proxies have gained widespread recognition for their ability to bypass IP bans, mimic real-user behavior, and ensure uninterrupted data collection. This article delves into the benefits, applications, and best practices for using residential proxies in your web scraping projects, supported by recent statistics and insights.</blockquote>
Google drained most publishers dry, now they're testing these summaries as a way to take away traffic from sites that report news. If the meat and potatoes are in the summaries, why would anyone click through? Just like AIO, they won't.
Every time google rolls out a core update my site completely gets deindexed for a few hours/days before it appears again. And it's been happening for a while now, I remember it very well during the June 25 core update. I usually rank on the first page, top 3-5, on many keywords and then my site just completely disappears when google is rolling out a new update.
Any ideas on what could cause this?
I blocked all SG traffic today. Now I am getting traffic from Ireland. It's just all bots. They see they are blocked from that region, they use another. You look at analytics and you think you got 1000 of views and then you dig deep and it's like 50 real views and 950 bot traffic.
I have been wondering for a long time why my traffic remains somewhat the same but conversion went to almost 0. That explains it. I honestly don't know why I even have a site. Google is already stealing the content anyway. I ask myself: if the content is already available on Google, what is the point of my site even existing? By the time people reach my site, they have read a summary of it or bought something anyway. So what is the point?
Must be Google controlling the bots to fill the void from the traffic they are stealing. Maybe a Scamdar approved criminal technique to make some of us believe the Google Crime Syndicate is still sending us traffic. Also the BS three weeks it will take for this update to complete is another pacifier Google shoves in the mouths of publishers in a futile attempt to take the heat off them as they make bank thieving during the busiest shopping season of the year. AI Slop Overviews is at the top anyway. Even Barry questions whether this core update will have much effect in traffic at around the 7:20 point in his video.
Best thing we can do is make a New Years resolution to disavow Google and all their privacy invading shit like GA, GSC, Ads, Adsense, Chrome, Youtube, Gmail, etc. Why feed the same shit demon company data when all they do is lie, cheat and steal our content and traffic? The Google Crime Syndicate can then send their reconsideration request to us be removing AI Slop Overviews, People Also Piss Boxes, etc. from the serps. A new CEO, and not another Poop Technocrat, would also help. I also won't stop letting Trump's party know they are on the wrong side of voters by allowing the Google Crime Syndicate to steal from us.
2 days before the announcement I saw 200% increase, sounds a lot but really wasn´t compared to the traffic killed off, then since last night almost no traffic. no change really across any of my sites. I think around Saturday we may see big moves but if it´s like all the other cores then usually it just means those who game the system rank even better with the 1 click AI slop
I honestly have gotten to the conclusion that most of the traffic Google sends or we get is from bots at this point. I used to block a bot or two that was abusive but now we get thousands of bots from Singapore and all these regions. I think that's why everyone's conversions are down. These bots are not always obvious to identify. A lot of times they even trick firewalls.