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My YMYL niched site is crashing and burning, lost 75% impressions and traffic so far!
My YMYL niched site is crashing and burning, lost 75% impressions and traffic so far!
In YMYL they're almost always targeting the same thing - people with thin budgets and sites who give up when the algorithm hits them. Which makes it very hard for smaller builders like us without VC funding and a couple mill to burn through to get us past the latest 'dip'.Any ideas about what this update may be going after?
Still live for me.Google just tweeted this, then deleted it right after:
Google just tweeted this, then deleted it right after:
Lol checked that list, I rank so much shit buying links on MANY of those sites. Have been for years. Not talking churn and burn either.One thing I'd be fairly sure of is if your linkbuilding agency is mainly shipping links on Dutka's blacklist - https://shanedutka.com/blacklist/ then they only have access to paid links that Google mostly knows about. Those are all the ones that float around on emails etc. Having the odd one on that list where it's a real natural site that has just got unlucky that some spammer got one link on them once and put them on their email list probably won't hurt but I've seen link reports from big players where 80%+ (one even was 100% for 3 months in a row) were on Dutka's list. Google definitely has more time to work on this than Shane...
Lol checked that list, I rank so much shit buying links on MANY of those sites. Have been for years. Not talking churn and burn either.
Scared money don't make money.
Carry on...
Edit: I meant to say, those sites are terrible, never place links on them, instant Google ban. Please be safe bros.
I didn't go through the list fully, but I saw a bunch of pubs I use as parasites (for rep repair) and they still rank incredibly well. Not sure how he qualifies these websites as "blacklisted".
Lol checked that list, I rank so much shit buying links on MANY of those sites. Have been for years. Not talking churn and burn either.
Anyone got any cool ideas what the update did ?
It maybe kinda sorta targeted some parasite SEO, but if you check a couple serps parasites are still doing pretty well.
But it definitely targeted review sites!
Here's a fun chart of the average ranking position with all queries containing the word "review:"
And this definitely does things like @Politico shared where it affects Review posts ("experience" in actually using and handling products).
September 2023 Helpful Content System Update
Source: https://searchengineland.com/google-september-2023-helpful-content-system-update-rolling-out-431978
Another item to help you decide if you're producing search-engine-first content (which is a bad thing) is "Are you changing the date of pages to make them seem fresh when the content has not substantially changed?"
Same. I have schema set up that shows the original publish date and the last updated date. It'd be nice if Google clarified which they meant. You would think that they're talking about people changing the original publish dates. Because even if you were to review an article for accuracy and completion, find it's good... isn't that technically enough cause to update the last updated date? Or last "quality assurance" date except we don't have one of those. Who knows. Google not being clear is a tale as old as time.My issue with this is that every time I add a new post, I go back to other posts and interlink.
When I do this, the date of the post automatically gets updated, which I'm sure is how the majority of us have things set up.
These onslaughts of algorithm updates really make it difficult for people to be making a permanent livelihood out of this.
It is still my belief that everyone needs to diversify away from site building as soon as possible...
You need to divert a percentage of your monthly earnings towards other types of income generating assets (stocks, real estate, etc).
I'm not saying to get out of the game. Stay in it but use it to build something else.
The product reviews update Google launched in Feb, 2022, seemed to heavily hit sites that were only focusing on review articles instead of actually providing value to the readers/audience, which I'm sure could be translated as not having enough informational posts to supplicate the affiliate posts, thus leading to the 70/30 or 80/20 affiliate-to-informational ratio some SEOs/Marketers developed.
My guess is that Google still seems to be doubling down on that. Because, I don't "get" how Google understands whether or not the person has used/handled the product themselves. Like, how do we prove that? On YouTube, it's easy to weed out because you can actually see the person with the product, narrating over it, etc. But on a blog post, unless Google has some super high-tech spy gear I don't understand how they figure out whether or not a person has actually used the product.
Same. I have schema set up that shows the original publish date and the last updated date. It'd be nice if Google clarified which they meant. You would think that they're talking about people changing the original publish dates. Because even if you were to review an article for accuracy and completion, find it's good... isn't that technically enough cause to update the last updated date? Or last "quality assurance" date except we don't have one of those. Who knows. Google not being clear is a tale as old as time.