Google releasing a large update today

[Paul Ant]

Some businesses I believe mostly the white hats, are doing fine?

Not true. My site DA is 50 never bought backlinks. Mostly organics. My traffic cut by half. No matter what I did, the ranking got worse.
The part that pisses me off, there are 4 relative new sites based on Shopify. Rank on page 1 & 2. Not many backlinks. No content except product description.
There is even a new domain registered 2 months ago, now rank on 2nd page. My site dropped from page 1 to 6.
I don't know what sorcery is this?

 

[Wiccanda]

Not true. My site DA is 50 never bought backlinks. Mostly organics. My traffic cut by half. No matter what I did, the ranking got worse.
The part that pisses me off, there are 4 relative new sites based on Shopify. Rank on page 1 & 2. Not many backlinks. No content except product description.
There is even a new domain registered 2 months ago, now rank on 2nd page. My site dropped from page 1 to 6.
I don't know what sorcery is this?

look at your backlink profile link and see if it contains 2.0s like blogger, typead etc.

then if not look at the backlink profile of those who are linking back to you and see if they have those types of links.

 

[Paul Ant]

look at your backlink profile link and see if it contains 2.0s like blogger, typead etc.

Thanks. Yes, I should have 2.0s because we asked lot of bloggers to review our product. But it's not significant. I have more than 600 referral domains. Many of it high DA since we got covered by many tech media. I have disavowed links with spam score more than 60 based on Semrush and MOZ.
But I'm sure most websites with DA over 50 have 2.0 backlinks. My site is close to 10 years old.
Pretty sure my competitors have 2.0s

 

[Wiccanda]

Thanks. Yes, I should have 2.0s because we asked lot of bloggers to review our product. But it's not significant. I have more than 600 referral domains. Many of it high DA since we got covered by many tech media. I have disavowed links with spam score more than 60 based on Semrush and MOZ.
But I'm sure most websites with DA over 50 have 2.0 backlinks. My site is close to 10 years old.
Pretty sure my competitors have 2.0s

how are your competitors though and how is there 2.0 count in their backlink profile compared to yours? You may have to analyze as I think this is the reason why sites are tanking.

mind you also that in Semrush sensor, news sites are at high risk of volatility.

 

[Paul Ant]

See the graph. Before January, I have 1 keyword rank 6-10. After January update, it dropped to 20+. After many tweaks, it went back to 1st page.
Mid of April, dropped to 2nd page. End of May, free fall to page 5 and 6. No matter what I did, it stuck.

 

[Paul Ant]

how are your competitors though and how is there 2.0 count in their backlink profile compared to yours? You may have to analyze as I think this is the reason why sites are tanking..

This will need a deeper analysis. A quick check on my competitors, they have dodgy backlinks as well.
Gray hat, like buy a few domains, created contents and link back. I thought Google should be smart enough to catch this. Apparently not.
I even found a linkjection!

 

[praetserge]

This update was horrible, look how many profile pages rank.
Big thanks to @Rachmaninoff , I created a few parasites and they rank on page 3-4 on their own, they'll rank higher once I throw some cheap pbn links at them.
Google adopts and so should we... if parasites are working now... then we should use them. To create 10 decent parasites takes less than a day.

 

[YujinTan]

Not true. My site DA is 50 never bought backlinks. Mostly organics. My traffic cut by half. No matter what I did, the ranking got worse.
The part that pisses me off, there are 4 relative new sites based on Shopify. Rank on page 1 & 2. Not many backlinks. No content except product description.
There is even a new domain registered 2 months ago, now rank on 2nd page. My site dropped from page 1 to 6.
I don't know what sorcery is this?

Is Really still mess up and dancing, for me , Organic traffic drop , up , drop literally . New Domain well if I right it will naturally rank high " but short moment depend how the sites go , with SEO stuffs later "
I remember after just one day register publish my site that time , organic traffic spike , traffic just come like that but later drop.

 

[Paul Ant]

Is Really still mess up and dancing, for me , Organic traffic drop , up , drop literally . New Domain well if I right it will naturally rank high " but short moment depend how the sites go , with SEO stuffs later "
I remember after just one day register publish my site that time , organic traffic spike , traffic just come like that but later drop.

I saw this relatively new dropshipping website, shoot up to page 1 in January, in a medium difficulty keyword. Still remain until today. No contents except product description. It doesn't even have more than 20 products.
The attachments from 2 different websites. The content and design are very similar. Thus I can tell this is a dropshipping site.

Let me know if you want to discuss further on these sites. This is a loophole from google. These sites didn't do blackhat or PBNs. There is a 2-month-old domain, using the same dropshipping site. Rank on page 2. It seems google passes the parent site authority to these shitty little sites.

My site used to rank on the 1st page on this keyword before January. now I rank at page 4

 

[bahus]

I saw this relatively new dropshipping website, shoot up to page 1 in January, in a medium difficulty keyword. Still remain until today. No contents except product description. It doesn't even have more than 20 products.
The attachments from 2 different websites. The content and design are very similar. Thus I can tell this is a dropshipping site.

Let me know if you want to discuss further on these sites. This is a loophole from google. These sites didn't do blackhat or PBNs. There is a 2-month-old domain, using the same dropshipping site. Rank on page 2. It seems google passes the parent site authority to these shitty little sites.

My site used to rank on the 1st page on this keyword before January. now I rank at page 4

This might explain why:

'Are You Writing Too Much Content On Your E-Commerce Category Pages For Google'

https://www.seroundtable.com/too-much-content-e-commerce-category-google-29590.html

I can't tell you how many times I've seen a useless wall of text below the main content be it an e-store, review site, or whatnot just to boost their SEO. It appears that Google is cracking down on it. I'm not saying that their site is better than yours, I'm just saying that things have changed.

 

[Paul Ant]

This might explain why:

'Are You Writing Too Much Content On Your E-Commerce Category Pages For Google'

https://www.seroundtable.com/too-much-content-e-commerce-category-google-29590.html

I can't tell you how many times I've seen a useless wall of text below the main content be it an e-store, review site, or whatnot just to boost their SEO. It appears that Google is cracking down on it. I'm not saying that their site is better than yours, I'm just saying that things have changed.

I see, worth reading. My site a product site with a shopping cart. Not a pure e-commerce site. Even that I don't put excessive content. on average 200-400 words.

 

[YujinTan]

If you have access to cPane 》 phpMyAdmin 》pick site database 》find users table 》 find password field 》 select MD5 from options 》 write new pwd 》save

If you dont know name of DB your site is using, simply check wp-config.php file.

Found this for you too:

I saw this relatively new dropshipping website, shoot up to page 1 in January, in a medium difficulty keyword. Still remain until today. No contents except product description. It doesn't even have more than 20 products.
The attachments from 2 different websites. The content and design are very similar. Thus I can tell this is a dropshipping site.

Let me know if you want to discuss further on these sites. This is a loophole from google. These sites didn't do blackhat or PBNs. There is a 2-month-old domain, using the same dropshipping site. Rank on page 2. It seems google passes the parent site authority to these shitty little sites.

My site used to rank on the 1st page on this keyword before January. now I rank at page 4

Well for me , is recently migrate my site to new host, during this Google May messy updates, perhaps also due to migration to new host need time to settle ? But. a lot members claims should not affect traffic once settle and live from the new host side.
I see traffic " seem increase back " yesterday or so but Drop deep down again , Still can't or don't know what Happen from Google sides. I does read some updates here, literally we all don't know , I even go see those SEO guru each of them just give their own thoughts and comments differently so I see hard truth NO body knows actually ?

This might explain why:

'Are You Writing Too Much Content On Your E-Commerce Category Pages For Google'

https://www.seroundtable.com/too-much-content-e-commerce-category-google-29590.html

I can't tell you how many times I've seen a useless wall of text below the main content be it an e-store, review site, or whatnot just to boost their SEO. It appears that Google is cracking down on it. I'm not saying that their site is better than yours, I'm just saying that things have changed.

Like that those sites that work like this current rank high than? Is like they just sync from amazon, ebay etc to the site , there will be a click more info redirect to those site .

 

[Vegas1979]

Here's another crazy thing.

Staring June 9th-10th I suddenly got about 3 times more Adsense Impressions on my sites but less revenue.
Clicks up due to all the extra ads.
Impression RPM way way down due to excessive ads and low paying ads.

Why did Google suddenly decide my sites were worth spamming?

I used to have it turned down to some sort of percentage for auto ads but they removed that option sometime last month and went full throttle.

They put the same ads over and over 8+ to a page.
Some are even covering my text!

I first noticed this due to a huge slowdown in GTX Metrix which was more Google Ad calls, so then I checked reports saw much more impressions, checked webpage, SLAMMED full of repetitive ads.

The only conclusion, Google hates me and wants to ruin my users experience. Time to remove all Adsense. ALL.

 

[YujinTan]

Here's another crazy thing.

Staring June 9th-10th I suddenly got about 3 times more Adsense Impressions on my sites but less revenue.
Clicks up due to all the extra ads.
Impression RPM way way down due to excessive ads and low paying ads.

Why did Google suddenly decide my sites were worth spamming?

I used to have it turned down to some sort of percentage for auto ads but they removed that option sometime last month and went full throttle.

They put the same ads over and over 8+ to a page.
Some are even covering my text!

I first noticed this due to a huge slowdown in GTX Metrix which was more Google Ad calls, so then I checked reports saw much more impressions, checked webpage, SLAMMED full of repetitive ads.

The only conclusion, Google hates me and wants to ruin my users experience. Time to remove all Adsense. ALL.

I also on Adsense. I does use auto ad. I discover if I put www. in front my domain a lot ads on my desktop version. As desktop i use ad inserter set just 3 ads . I don't want the auto ad ruin the layout etc on desktop, the ads will random go around if u use Auto ad . For mobile side is ok , spam with ads but still not say over aggressive. Desktop side will look untidy etc . So I remove the www. , now desktop seem back to the usual 3 ads I set . But my earnings drops partly due to organic traffic massive drop

 

[Paul Ant]

Here is a copy-paste from the last newsletter from FE International (highly recommended, IMHO):

"The New Head of Google Search will be Prabhakar Raghavan, the current head of Google Ads. Product teams are usually separated at Google, and Raghavan will be retaining control of Google Ads, this is being seen by many as a worrying departure from normal procedure. The goals of Google Ads and Google Search are contradictory, as Google Ads aims to drive as much revenue as possible by selling greater search visibility to their customers. Search Optimization, on the other hand, can provide this visibility for free. Google Ads' interest in gaining more dominance over search results, and providing more space for advertisers, is also seen as contradictory to Google Search's aim of providing the best user experience possible."

For short - everything happens with a reason. Does anybody still think that they are going to roll back the update? Not even when the hell freezes over

There is a high possibility the new update meant to drive AdWords revenue. After May update, for my industry, the first page and second page filled with amazon, eBay, aliexpress, other big e-commerce, then big media. These are the companies that will not buy adwords.
Thus push out the small companies from the first page, so they have no choice but to buy adwords. Before May update, you still see quite a lot of small companies on the first page.

 

[Escehas]

Can anyone confirm that their Discover section on the Google Search Console looks like this?
https://imgur.com/QvhSmoV

 

[YujinTan]

Can anyone confirm that their Discover section on the Google Search Console looks like this?
https://imgur.com/QvhSmoV

Yes like this, all along I see why?

 

[nifras]

Guys, anyone recover from this update?

 

[Escehas]

Yes like this, all along I see why?

No idea why for now, I'm just wondering if this has happened only to the websites that were impacted by the update. Let's wait and see what other users are saying.

 

[Deleted member 1132725]

Guys, anyone recover from this update?

Nope. Ive tried everything and even added AMP for my site, nothing has changed.

My site already had excellent health scroe before but had some speed issues and ive fixed everything to the core and im still where i was before. This is just insane.

I wont put any more energy into this site, if it recovers then good and if not then hell with it.