I’ve been wondering how the majority of sites hit by Google’s September 2023 helpful content update are doing. Glenn Gabe is tracking about 400 of them, so he provided an update saying 88 (or 22% of them) have seen a 20% increase since the August 2024 core update. Some had full recoveries but most did … Read more
Google may have hit Fortune Recommends with a search penalty, downgrading its Google search rankings. This may be related to the site reputation abuse policy, like it may have done previously to Forbes Advisor a few weeks ago and some other large publications. Fortune Recommends is hosted on a subfolder at fortune.com/recommends and is the … Read more
Google’s AI Overviews seem to not show citations or link to sites that were hit by the helpful content update (and probably core updates), even when you ask the AI Overview directly about that site and even if that site is ranking well for that query in the traditional Google search results. To be clear, … Read more
Google may have hit Forbes Advisor with a manual action, downgrading its rankings over maybe the site reputation abuse policy. Lars Lofgren wrote about this marketplace, he wrote Forbes Marketplace: The Parasite SEO Company Trying to Devour Its Host on September 18th and then a week or so later, it looks like it was hit … Read more
Google Ads is experiencing a significant outage affecting multiple reporting tools and product management features. Why we care. This outage is impacting advertisers’ ability to manage campaigns and access critical performance data. Details: Down: Report Editor, Dashboards, Saved Reports in web interface. Affected: Products, Product Groups, Listing Groups pages across web, API, and Google Ads … Read more
There are reports that some sites hit by the Google September 2023 Helpful Content Update are seeing small, somewhat tiny, lifts over the past week or so. Again, based on what we’ve been tracking, we have yet to see any recoveries but we are all hopeful we will see significant recoveries for some of those … Read more
Google’s John Mueller was asked when can a site expect to recover from the September 2023 helpful content update, assuming the site took all measures to “fix” their site. John Mueller said you can assume “bigger changes would be visible when the next core updates happen.” This came up on X: Question: Assuming a site … Read more
Many factors can affect rankings after a core algorithm update. It’s not always about the helpfulness of content, there are other factors that can play a role in why the algorithm changed and negatively affected your website rankings. If you find yourself saying, “It used to rank before, why doesn’t it rank now?” then some … Read more
Google’s Search Advocate John Mueller recently addressed the SEO community’s concerns about site recovery after being impacted by algorithm updates. The conversation arose as people questioned whether sites hit by the September helpful content update could regain lost traffic and rankings after future core updates. The exchange began on X when an SEO professional, Thomas … Read more
Google’s John Mueller said again this morning that sites hit by the old September helpful content update or even new core updates can recovery. He said on X and on LinkedIn that it is possible to recover but it is not a simple change you can tweak on your website, but rather it takes a … Read more
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