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Many of my clients are reporting that the shiny stars below their posts on google are gone, anyone else faced this?
It's Google's Broad Core Algo Update for Sept 2019
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yes mine too from health websites
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Let’s hope it comes back.
feIix
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Even if Google is very cautious about the exact causes and the procedure for the core updates, it can be assumed that Google's trust in the content of domains will be reassessed with this core update.
A lot of health and travel related websites are affected.
A lot of health and travel related websites are affected.
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Same here.
Interesting quote.
Seems to me like they're fixing something, don't you think?
What I noticed since june: if you stray off from mainstream results, you get random shit. For example, you can call loudspeakers speakers too. So I searched for specific speakers for my stereo, the speaker name is weird, I got all sorts of shit, photos of chinese women and Nancy Pelosi cuz she's the speaker of the house....
This has been getting real bad. I got a client in EU who wrote me an email saying he was getting Altavista results (I work for him since the Altavista days).
Perhaps this update is a fix. I think they got spidering and indexing issues.
Went from 4 to 37 in a matter of hours.
Thanks, Google!
Hang in there. Going down before an update can be good news as I mentioned before. It's their fuzzying algorithm.
Normal fluctuations. The 30% increase was on a low traffic, correct?
They're not coming back. Google announced they removed all self-included stars and are penalizing such reviews.
Looks like they're targeting specific niches in each update. Last update they hit financials and cryptocurrency. See the CCN issue, they got totally rekt.
But I think this update is a fix to whatever they did in june/august. They have issues for sure, especially spidering and indexing issues.
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@bartosimpsonio most of my clients use schemapro in Wordpress and have put user ratings to get the stars, are you suggesting I switch that option off for them? Then what would you suggest me to put in the review button of schema?
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Google give us a break! No changes in SERPs for my websites so far though
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CanuckSEO
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I would go ahead and turn it off. I've been reading that it won't affect anything but it's Google... better safe than sorry.
What about girl SEOs?It’s the time again boys
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I agree, I also think they hit different niches in each update. The one before crypto was health right?
I noticed that a lot of you guys had your review schema removed? Mine is still showing.. Hope it won't be removed, it's nice for CTR.
The review stars are no longer showing unless users can leave uncensored reviews directly on the site. So if you are just showing TripAdvisor reviews on your site, or if you just added some random reviews to your site and there is no vehicle for a user to actually directly leave a review, the stars will no longer show.
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Already took them down I don’t trust google at all
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Thanks for the update @Diamond Damien
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google is becoming shit day by day
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I'm in the early stages of building a health website (5 months old). I don't have hardly any organic traffic yet. I do, however, have sufficient social media traffic that I qualified for Ezoic ads starting this month. As an "industry leader" in my niche (radiology), I hope to see some positive changes. Part of my quest for building this site was to debunk all the BS that is put out on the internet by non-medical sites and of course, they rank #1 on the SERPs. I'm hoping all that starts to change. They don't even use the proper words when discussing things for Pete's sake. Anyway, curious to see if organic doors finally start to open for me.
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vrodriguez305
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Went from #20 to #8
AKQJ10
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Mine is also still showing. Anyway it seems like a lot of you guys have it removed even if it’s star review for other products. I’ll switch on the user star review option and see what will happen.
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I don't understand what you mean. You only have one keyword? Or did your average ranking go from position 20 to 8 for your whole website? If so how many keywords?
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If the ratings aren't showing, it may be due to the way your plugin is displaying this data. In the case of my sites, I am using WP Review and this error is being looked into https://community.mythemeshop.com/topic/108542-wp-review-google-rich-results-dont-show-any-more/