Google releasing a large update today

Guys, I have been analyzing different sites and what I am finding out is that sites that are authority, good content, and very strong link profile have lost lots of traffic. This update makes no sense. Check out these two sites, popular adult toy sites. What does all those sites have in common? They have reviews. Could this update have anything to do with sites that have their own review?
no, many sites have no review at all and tank too
 
Thank you google You're helping SEO newbies like me! God bless you

 
It appears the Google Judge Click Workers in India hired to "assist" the Google "AI" have down voted us all, and upvoted their own new small trash sites.

I even see WireCutter dropped from page one to these sites from India.
Internal act of economic terrorism on the American webmaster.
What is the point of including racism everywhere? Many people have lost their rankings. am I blaming American multinationals for ruining my business?

People like you give Americans a bad name. Shame! And, shame on those 4 who liked this racist diatribe.
 
I'm not sure if this is related to the update but this week I'm noticing something strange. I see different SERP results(outside of top10) in different browsers. All incognito, all set for English and United States, in Firefox I get a new site I did at page 5, currently page 3, and in Chrome - I don't see it at all in the first 10 pages.

Similar thing when I use allintitle attributes. In Firefox for some queries, I get let's say 500 results. I do the same query in Chrome immediately - 2500 results.
 
I'm not sure if this is related to the update but this week I'm noticing something strange. I see different SERP results(outside of top10) in different browsers. All incognito, all set for English and United States, in Firefox I get a new site I did at page 5, currently page 3, and in Chrome - I don't see it at all in the first 10 pages.

Similar thing when I use allintitle attributes. In Firefox for some queries, I get let's say 500 results. I do the same query in Chrome immediately - 2500 results.

not related to update, because i have noticed see this few times over the last year: different result in private search between firefox and chrome... after few hours, they get to the same result.
 
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All 3 big Online Shops here in Germany.
Between 200k and 2M traffic each.
It looks like very big Shops like Otto.de weren't effected but middle size Online Shops.
We just have to find out, why these are gaining traffic and some are losing.
 
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I search one of my posts today and I find out that Google left me a survey, does that means Google use survey to judge ranking?
 
It is not a major release. so no need to fear. Google does these things every month.
 
Here is my conclusion so far....

I have 30 websites, all affiliate sites, some with google ads....

All different with al kinds of tests on each ones...

All with okay content, all handwritten, some with only 3-4 articles, somes with 10-20 articles...

My conclusion is so far:

Sites with little content dropped big...

Sites with affiliate links dropped a little 5-10 places...

Sites with no links buildt is the same....

Sites with a mix of google ads and affiliate went up very nicely 2-5 places....

My conclusion on this are:

Google will force you to have sites with no links other than google ads, sadly I dont have a site only with them so can not say what would happen with such sites....

Sites with very little content and lots of link building are fucked...

Actions, are transforming 10 sites to google ads + affiliate links, will see what happens in a few weeks...

Guess the recipe is a sityes with very good content + google ads and no links are the way....

Any ideas, or similiar conclusion based on your websites would help us all...

Forgot this, my sites are in danish .dk domains, some on info, net and com, info, net and com domains, even with good content have dropped big time....
 
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One question, as my website is also in news niche and saw a big drop on google and google discover. Did you cover news on the Covid-19? Or not at all?

Thanks
I covered all this stuff and had a drop of around 70% of traffic.
 
My lady is excited because some of her blog posts are now ranking top 3. She does not have that much-written content. Up to 500 words but mostly images and a youtube video to go with the blog posts. She focuses on Youtube and Pinterest.
 
I covered all this stuff and had a drop of around 70% of traffic.
I covered all this stuff and had a drop of around 70% of traffic.

I found more details. On 8.05 the number of pages crawled per day increased again after the update from last weekend. Now, it appears that some of the keywords began to appear again on the first page, while traffic starts to increase. Will give you guys details after i see some more.
 
Here is my conclusion so far....

I have 30 websites, all affiliate sites, some with google ads....

All different with al kinds of tests on each ones...

All with okay content, all handwritten, some with only 3-4 articles, somes with 10-20 articles...

My conclusion is so far:

Sites with little content dropped big...

Sites with affiliate links dropped a little 5-10 places...

Sites with no links buildt is the same....

Sites with a mix of google ads and affiliate went up very nicely 2-5 places....

My conclusion on this are:

Google will force you to have sites with no links other than google ads, sadly I dont have a site only with them so can not say what would happen with such sites....

Sites with very little content and lots of link building are fucked...

Actions, are transforming 10 sites to google ads + affiliate links, will see what happens in a few weeks...

Guess the recipe is a sityes with very good content + google ads and no links are the way....

Any ideas, or similiar conclusion based on your websites would help us all...

Forgot this, my sites are in danish .dk domains, some on info, net and com, info, net and com domains, even with good content have dropped big time....

I think it means this update focus on link building, so if your site don't have any link, it was not affected, of course it won't increase or drop, just stay at its position.
 
Hey guys How about local lead gen websites??? Do anyone find any droppings or anything???

Thanks!
 
This is what I have so far:


Drop in traffic, like really drop
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but when in ahrefs it seems like doing good.
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No special links build yet, no add or removed. I'm in the commerce section and it seems like my main keywords dropped a bit from 1st to 7th while the ones dominating are amazon, target and ebay.
 
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