[Google Update Warning] Monday-Tue 11th Jan

[SimoneMark82]

Some clients' sites with large gains from December received slight traffic hits on 1/8, but nothing significant since then.

 

[shahzeb khann]

My website impression decreased 80% today and few keyword not in top 100.

 

[tiiberius]

In my niche, December update was a good thing (I actually showed somebody). Some shitty sites were moved down.

Are you being affected now?

Basically in a couple of years having an SEO ecom site will be the most profitable. Content SEO won't be as powerful just because people would rather stay on Google, and all the content will be scraped and put in the SERPs anyway...

Looks like we are headed there indeed.

 

[nahid133]

Dec update hit me very hard
Maybe this one bring me something

 

[vinayseo]

There's also a new type of featured snippet which could be the reason behind this.

Check out this

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They are offering sharing of google search results directly to Facebook and twitter. SEO might use that feature in various ways to directly spam google search URL's

 

[shapads]

Al the update is about knocking out the little guy

 

[fotopaga]

Ok Here we go again.

 

[carchek]

I lost a few featured snippets / 1st places in the December update. Some big authority sites got pushed on the first spots. As far as I can see from my GSC / GA no moves/buzz from the 8th of January until now in my niche.
BTW, I have MFA website if that helps.
My traffic dropped 50% in dec update.

 

[praetserge]

Are you being affected now?

Nope...
But since 2 sites in my niche got demoted I moved 2 positions up.

 

[tardigrade84]

There's also a new type of featured snippet which could be the reason behind this.

Check out this

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Does anyone have a link to an explanation of this new type of snippet ?

 

[Tunis0101]

dec update didn't affect me at all, we'll see if this one will

 

[blackbeans]

Has the dust settled yet on this update?

 

[danoseo]

We give them permission to steal from us with our schema don't forget. Unless people all decide to start denying Google, there's not much we can do about it :\

Perhaps we will see it come into law that these "snippets" that actually steal the critical information from other websites is a violation of copyright and could expose google to legal action if they don't stop.

 

[Big Ron]

Perhaps we will see it come into law that these "snippets" that actually steal the critical information from other websites is a violation of copyright and could expose google to legal action if they don't stop.

Can you sue God?

 

[SeekritSquirrel]

This page shows you as a webmaster how to opt out of your content being used in a featured snippet: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/appearance/featured-snippets?visit_id=637464326496969119-1159046946&rd=1

 

[Kevinpro]

Update coming at Blog, website speed.

 

[jessicca]

Everytime I hear about google updates ... I will scare so much even though I did not build black/gray hat links ... bcz I was hit my EMD few years ago which wipe my entire earning and left me where I started

 

[Deleted member 977120]

I've been seeing a slight increase in revenue since December, I hope it stays. Website started ranking for other keywords than my main one, and I seem to be losing rankings for the keyword I relied on for so long.

 

[Ebay.slayer]

Is this similar to the Panda & Penguin update?

 

[anglikan]

My rankings are fucked up today. Anyone else?