popbradley
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my sites down about 30% traffic in the last 2 days. Anyone else seeing any drops?
The Google August 2022 Helpful Content Update has started - Let's keep track of everything here
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Dark Hat 007
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From my end, nope, what niche? Is it AI content?
Crazy! Lol... Google!
popbradley
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Pets and nope. Zero AI content lol. I even called this happening. I’m seeing some people with AI content ranking better while my legit site is dropping lol.
popbradley
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Just checked again and I’ve lost 40 keywords from The top 3 and climbing lol.
Borito
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I’m in the same niche and experience drops as well. I had an increase two days ago and since then it’s dropping hard. Looks like some articles got de-indexed as wel that we’re ranking quite good.
I don’t have any AI content and I see other spammy blogs ranking even better now.
popbradley
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I had the same thing. I had a really nice increase for two days then a hard steady decline.
Borito
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Yeah it’s strange because one of my other sites is getting a big increase since two days.
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For me and my competitors, everything is normal or better. Nothing out of the ordinary with this update.
lunapt
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How many posts a day?
Anyone seeing site:website.com results go down yet ahrefs/gsc indexed pages and kws.going up?
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Dark Hat 007
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There's a form Google dropped for people to lay complaints to them if they were unfairly affected. It is somewhere in this forum.
leechesBleechin
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is this website only 1 month old?
Daxir
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same here, 100% self-written and original content, down 40% and counting.
getting outranked by scraper sites and some pages that don't even exist (they either 404 or similar)
probably lost 70-80 top3 positions so far
lunapt
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Did you use surferseo or writing tools?
Daxir
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nope
most of my keywords are 0 comp, there were absolutely no information about them on the SERPs except some crumbs on reddit and forums
now im getting outranked by reddit/forums, or higher authority sites that aren't directly targeting the KW
Dark Hat 007
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What was your traffic like? I feel it will come back..
Daxir
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around 100k PV/month
i don't have high hopes, seen a lot of sites getting crushed for no reason lately