The September 2022 core update (Here We Go Again!)

Well… so far I’m liking this update. I just gained the keywords I lost from the helpful content back AND I have shot up on Other keywords. Some I’ve never ranked even close to before… I sure hope this stays haha.

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looks like we re having the same experience again

won a considerable bunch of keywords back that i lost during HCU (out of the ones im tracking in serprobot at least, hoping that it also reflects to the untracked long tails)

neither my positions nor my traffic are still nowhere close to pre-HCU levels, but it seems hopeful

this core update almost feels like a rollback
 
All sites are up, some of them by quite a lot. Content is top-notch with real, accredited reviewers wherever needed, no blackhat links. Hopefully it continues in this direction, it's nice to be rewarded for "playing according to their rules" for once.
 
a reminder for the new guys, chill for a 4 or 5 days before panicking, also in my experience if you are seeing green now then red is coming :D
 
a reminder for the new guys, chill for a 4 or 5 days before panicking, also in my experience if you are seeing green now then red is coming :D
I wouldn’t doubt it honestly. Even without this update, I was starting to recover some keywords. I’m sure by the end my traffic and keywords are gonna tank again.
 
maybe they realized if they removed all the AI content from the SERP that there would be nothing left and are reversing the content update
Couldn't agree more
Google will run out of answers if they bust mistake original content for machine-generated one
 
Google is just freaing me out. All i know about the update till now is: Its about speed optimizing and other on page stuff. Content updates are still not decode,
 
The question is why my Google Rankings have dropped overnight ?!
 
SERP volatility is not much. Senrush showing volatility just 5.2 or else core updates have volatility above 9
 
so far everything is going positively

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Non of my sites got any effect. So it means it is not applied for my sites till now?
 
I have gained positions on keywords in my favourite theme and lost some in others, overall very happy for now
 
Destroyed. New blog started is about 7 months old. I have 159 articles now, I hired writers on upwork but realised they were just using Jasper, I hadn't been following on here so didn't know AI was that big of a thing.

Out of those 159 articles, I rewrote and improved about 100 of them myself, but 59 defintiely would need more work. I wasn't affected by the HCU.

With this one I've gone from 36 KW in top 3 to 18, looks like my daily traffic is down around 50%. I was getting 70% of my traffic from just one article, and 2 KW's for it I track have gone from 1 to 2.

My highest daily traffic was Tues Aug 30th and there was a slow steady decline since then, which had me a little concerned, and then as I say destroyed since yesterday Sept 13th.

Weirdly adsense is still doing well. I only put it on about 2 weeks ago. €16.86 per 1000 users on Sunday, and it's looking good so far today even with 50% traffic.

It sucks. But all I can do is try and continue as normal and hope it rebounds, it's still a very young site.

Also I noticed I got blasted with links from malware/scam sites about 1 week ago, so I think I will disavow those to be on the safe side.
 
Destroyed. New blog started is about 7 months old. I have 159 articles now, I hired writers on upwork but realised they were just using Jasper, I hadn't been following on here so didn't know AI was that big of a thing.

Out of those 159 articles, I rewrote and improved about 100 of them myself, but 59 defintiely would need more work. I wasn't affected by the HCU.

With this one I've gone from 36 KW in top 3 to 18, looks like my daily traffic is down around 50%. I was getting 70% of my traffic from just one article, and 2 KW's for it I track have gone from 1 to 2.

My highest daily traffic was Tues Aug 30th and there was a slow steady decline since then, which had me a little concerned, and then as I say destroyed since yesterday Sept 13th.

Weirdly adsense is still doing well. I only put it on about 2 weeks ago. €16.86 per 1000 users on Sunday, and it's looking good so far today even with 50% traffic.

It sucks. But all I can do is try and continue as normal and hope it rebounds, it's still a very young site.

Also I noticed I got blasted with links from malware/scam sites about 1 week ago, so I think I will disavow those to be on the safe side.
Doesn't seem like your site was "destroyed". Destroyed is like losing 80-90% of your traffic overnight.
 
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