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

How long can we survive for before we have to close our websites? Right now I am not sure. I am seeing AI competitors pop up all over the place in my niche but they get no traffic. 10k pages in 2 days and being ranked. Honestly, it is a tough world out there now. We need another search engine, websites are NOT going away as people and advertisors still want them. Google are doing what they did with GA4 forcing something that is sh%it which ends up with less users. The only GOOD thing they did was create Google Search in a garage - since then everything they have done has been bad for the world.

Comment ID #6805844587 12/06/2025 06:33 am

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

Have we forgotten about the lawsuits from publishers. It is the worse traffic I have seen in all my life. I don't know what he is on about?

Comment ID #6805834018 12/06/2025 05:35 am

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

I never had a chance to "taste" what email list could give me because of wrong niche, but I hope you do well with it

Comment ID #6805832141 12/06/2025 05:24 am

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

it's cloud, I wonder what they are doing, I never had this issue

Comment ID #6805820445 12/06/2025 04:13 am

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

thanks checking it

Comment ID #6805820398 12/06/2025 04:13 am

2025 commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated December 3-4

On several other platforms, including Facebook Groups, people have stopped trying to frame sentences properly, even when they're writing in English. The truth is, once you lose the motivation to work on something, you naturally lose interest in being professional.

Comment ID #6805814022 12/06/2025 03:31 am

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

This latest bullshit of theirs is reminiscent of a couple months ago when the soulless lying c0cksuckers at Google got caught lying to the public about the status of search: <a href="https://www.seroundtable.com/google-open-web-is-in-rapid-decline-40068.html">https://www.seroundtable.com/google-open-web-is-in-rapid-decline-40068.html</a>

Comment ID #6805757138 12/05/2025 09:26 pm

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

These Greedlers are still pushing the same old BS even though all the data shows they are lying sacks of shit. Check this story Roosters posted yesterday: <b>Google executive sees AI search as expansion for web</b> - <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/google-executive-sees-ai-search-expansion-web-2025-12-04/">https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/google-executive-sees-ai-search-expansion-web-2025-12-04/</a> <blockquote>A Google search executive on Thursday pushed back against fears that its AI-powered search will harm web publishers and its advertising business, calling the technology an “expansionary moment” for the internet. Speaking at the Reuters NEXT conference in New York, Robby Stein, vice president of product for Google Search, addressed concerns that the company’s efforts to provide more AI-powered features — which deliver direct answers to queries — would reduce traffic to external websites.</blockquote><blockquote>“Google sends billions and billions and billions of clicks out every single day, and the outbound clicks are largely stable. So that’s actually not changing,” Stein said, adding that new ways people are searching, such as using their phone cameras or asking long, complex questions, are creating new opportunities. “We think over time that’s expansionary. The pie is growing very, very fast.”</blockquote>"The pie is growing very, very fast” as in Google's pie is growing very fast leaving crumbs behind for everyone else. The "billions and billions of clicks" Google sends out every day have trannysitioned from organic clicks to ad clicks which is helping Google break revenue records.

Comment ID #6805724023 12/05/2025 07:11 pm

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

Modest increase on the 3rd and 4th. Maybe 10%.

Comment ID #6805719136 12/05/2025 06:52 pm

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

For any slow wordpress site, I use the Query Monitor plugin to see what's slowing it down.

Comment ID #6805696165 12/05/2025 05:34 pm

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

No but if it is dedicated go in and use LLM to do read only in terminal: check for 500s, 401, bot traffic etc, anything pointing to a drop, mod security, etc

Comment ID #6805685784 12/05/2025 05:03 pm

Mark Ting commented on Google Discover Gains Summarize, Follow Up & Dive Deeper With AI Mode

Anyone else notice that Google News "Space" category never has anything to do with space... https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8328df69a75fb14a8b126d6b202e2736060934fe87c769daee07fcbd18576dce.png

Comment ID #6805649541 12/05/2025 03:30 pm

Jacques Bouchard commented on Google API Doc Implies Service Areas Not A Local Ranking Factor

I imagine that spelling it out helps to instruct LLM's, though. Plus they're useful for human users too.

Comment ID #6805590470 12/05/2025 01:23 pm

Tālavas taurētājs commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated December 3-4

whats the link?

Comment ID #6805575555 12/05/2025 12:53 pm

John A. User commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated December 3-4

I guessed it was probably Hindi or an Indian language because @disqus_qdulHi8fu5:disqus ok'd it, I assumed she knew what it meant :D I was just too lazy to go to Google :D

Comment ID #6805570781 12/05/2025 12:44 pm

Tom Ward commented on Google Search Console Average Impression Jump After Num 100 Change

As if the main target of the num=100 removal was 'SEO tools'.

Comment ID #6805560668 12/05/2025 12:24 pm

Dallas commented on Google Search Console Average Impression Jump After Num 100 Change

I'm confused now xD My impressions decreased, and my average position also "decreased". Is a lower number on average position considered an increase since its technically better? I'm lost man.

Comment ID #6805535542 12/05/2025 11:31 am

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

anyone here using hostinger? I have wordpress sites, and they are really slow, I even started new site and there is nothing just one post, no plugins and it's slow

Comment ID #6805530470 12/05/2025 11:20 am

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

HCU has proven to be another gaslighting tool/technique Google used to con publishers.

Comment ID #6805510170 12/05/2025 10:37 am

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

Since Thanksgiving, Google has sent all my sites nothing but garbage, non-converting traffic. But still making money off my massive e-mail lists, so fok you Google: EATT shit!

Comment ID #6805505897 12/05/2025 10:28 am

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

<blockquote>Seo is dead in 2025</blockquote>Don't worry, I have a funny feeling people are going to stop saying it in about 27 days. :-)

Comment ID #6805497381 12/05/2025 10:09 am

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

<blockquote>I tell you in all sincerity, SEO died a long time ago. Anyone who still thinks it works is stuck in the past. Change direction while you still can.</blockquote>It does still work though - there are plenty people making real money even in 2025. There is no change direction for me or most of the people in similar circumstances. I've not done anything else work wise for the last 20 years, I'm basically unemployable the second I move outside of my current well paying job. I'm going to stick with this for however long it's easy enough to make money still. But seo dead in 2025? No, failing seo's have been saying its dead every year for at least the last 15 years lol

Comment ID #6805480591 12/05/2025 09:31 am

Radu Roman commented on Google Search Console Average Impression Jump After Num 100 Change

The title says "average impressions increased" but the whole article is about average position increase, while the average impressions dropped. Things are not adding up :)

Comment ID #6805479237 12/05/2025 09:28 am

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

Oh weird not sure why my comment got marked as spam. But yes I agree all I see is spam all over. Aws spam sites, aws spam videos. Trust pilot spam everywhere. Really hard to find just a legit site ranking anywhere on Google. Then you have cloudflare going down. Really frustrating.

Comment ID #6805468913 12/05/2025 09:05 am

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

The HCU has just punished real content creators since the first one and it's been downhill. Now it's just pure parasite, one click ai slop, and 301 one pager redirects all using "discover thrilling" type content with plain text that drones on and a generic picture. It's never been easier to Spam. So I'm hoping the next update is as big a change as what HCU was as it can't get any worse.. Unless your a big content farm media site.

Comment ID #6805463212 12/05/2025 08:51 am

No Couch Potato commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated December 3-4

Google tranlate detected the language as Hindi and came back with this translation. Google search results appear to be unstable again – the volatility seems to be due to an unconfirmed update, but Google hasn't announced anything.

Comment ID #6805461910 12/05/2025 08:48 am

Mark Ting commented on Google API Doc Implies Service Areas Not A Local Ranking Factor

Having dealt with thousands of service area businesses all across North America, I can pretty confidently say the "service area" you choose if you hide your address in Maps has little to no impact outside your immediate actual location -- aka, city you're actually verified in -- and is mostly irrelevant otherwise, aside from the "image".

Comment ID #6805460143 12/05/2025 08:43 am

Barry Schwartz commented on Google Search Console Average Impression Jump After Num 100 Change

no it is the "average position" metric in the performance report.

Comment ID #6805458587 12/05/2025 08:39 am

MrSEO commented on Google Search Console Average Impression Jump After Num 100 Change

Your title says average impression which I guess is a mistake? Shouldn't it be position?

Comment ID #6805458264 12/05/2025 08:38 am

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

Is this a new HCU or what? Did Google engineers go crazy at the end of the year and break everything? What's going on? It's just unbelievable. There's absolutely no traffic. Just bots from different countries!

Comment ID #6805456762 12/05/2025 08:34 am

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