Site Got affected by Google Core Update

[Black Belt Spodermen]

Don't listen to @sarfrazk9. Sites can recover unless they have been penalized due to heavy spam, which is unlikely in your case as per your words.
The guy is probably working only with charm and burn projects or has low-quality websites with no chances of recovering.

Shall I show you several sites which are completely white hat and still didn't recover after the May update? I have been in the business for 8 years and watched white hat sites fall like crazy. So, stop assuming things about me and be more familiar with the blogging space.

 

[Black Belt Spodermen]

I never did any Black hat method and my contents is always has high relevance and no plagiarism so I'm sure that I never face such thinks

It's not about black hat, Google sometimes even hits the white hat sites. I have been hit too for multiple times but recovered. Some of my competitors didn't even though their sites were better in terms of content and link profile.

 

[Nj22]

It's not about black hat, Google sometimes even hits the white hat sites. I have been hit too for multiple times but recovered. Some of my competitors didn't even though their sites were better in terms of content and link profile.

Ok thanks for the heads up! Everyone has faced some odd or unimaginable things here so we can't come conclusions. Hope my company site won't face that!

 

[EMAOneBillion]

Shall I show you several sites which are completely white hat and still didn't recover after the May update? I have been in the business for 8 years and watched white hat sites fall like crazy. So, stop assuming things about me and be more familiar with the blogging space.

For real?

You're discouraging someone's hard work by saying their site is done because of a mere update, and now you're telling me to stop assuming things?

If you've been in the industry for 8 years and couldn't manage to recover a single site says enough to me, so my role is done here.

P.S: Whitehat or not doesn't count a penny. It's about the quality of the site. Simply because a site is "whitehat" doesn't mean it's expected to recover

You working with sh*t sites is not my problem but stop giving advice like that to people. Either you provide something useful or don't reply at all. It's that simple.

 

[Black Belt Spodermen]

For real?

You're discouraging someone's hard work by saying their site is done because of a mere update, and now you're telling me to stop assuming things?

If you've been in the industry for 8 years and couldn't manage to recover a single site says enough to me, so my role is done here.

P.S: Whitehat or not doesn't count a penny. It's about the quality of the site. Simply because a site is "whitehat" doesn't mean it's expected to recover

You working with sh*t sites is not my problem but stop giving advice like that to people. Either you provide something useful or don't reply at all. It's that simple.

The problem is your arrogance and ignorance. You didn't read my reply. Let me educate you again here,

If you are hit in the first few days, there are two possibilities:
1. Your site recovers after a few weeks automatically
2. Your site is done.

You see? I told him two things.

Secondly, I am pretty well-known in my niche, worked with official brands, been invited in many events because I am considered among the experts in my industry. So, you should get over your ignorance because you don't know me or my site. Probably, you have just started yesterday and thought to look cool by judging somebody on the basis of your "limited" and "F*d up" knowledge of SEO. Good bye.

 

[BlackHatSoda]

What tactics did you use to get backlinks? You mention that you think the content is ok so I'd ask, are the backlinks ok as well?

 

[EMAOneBillion]

The problem is your arrogance and ignorance. You didn't read my reply. Let me educate you again here,


You see? I told him two things.

Secondly, I am pretty well-known in my niche, worked with official brands, been invited in many events because I am considered among the experts in my industry. So, you should get over your ignorance because you don't know me or my site. Probably, you have just started yesterday and thought to look cool by judging somebody on the basis of your "limited" and "F*d up" knowledge of SEO. Good bye.

Dude, sites can recover, even after months or the next update. Period.
And it's not just an automatic process as you claim.
Please stop talking, you're just proving all my points here with "I'm considered an expert" and blablabla. I started working with brands and got to events after 2y of SEO, nothing impressive.

 

[Black Belt Spodermen]

Dude, sites can recover, even after months, or after the next update. Period.
And it's not just an automatic process as you claim.
Please stop talking, you're just proving all my points here with "I'm considered an expert" and blablabla.

Did I not write that his site may recover? But are there sites that didn't recover even though they were pretty legit?

There is a difference between the two. I am being realistic here.

 

[EMAOneBillion]

Did I not write that his site may recover? But are there sites that didn't recover even though they were pretty legit?

There is a difference between the two. I am being realistic here.

You said if the site doesn't recover automatically as the update is rolled out should be done with it.
Which is 100% bullsh*t.
Have you ever worked to improve EEAT, authority, and social media presence before reaching that conclusion?
I guess it all boils down to editing the content and building $50 links for you when it comes to recovering the sites, which, most of the time, doesn't yield much.

 

[Black Belt Spodermen]

You said if the site doesn't recover automatically as the update is rolled out should be done with it.
Which is 100% bullsh*t.
Have you ever worked to improve EEAT, authority, and social media presence before reaching that conclusion?
I guess it all boils down to editing the content and building $50 links for you when it comes to recovering the sites, which, most of the time, doesn't yield much.

Does your brain allow you to think above the "legit" factor? What legit means for you in the first place?

what do you mean by recovery? Recovering 100% or most of the traffic lost in the update or recovering through manual penalty?

As the OP said he didn't receive the penalty, he falls in the first category which is much harder to recover from because Google updates generally change the SERPs structure greatly as well as pushes a site back in rankings considering all the metrics of a site.

I am not talking about manual penalty here. You got me wrong.

 

[EMAOneBillion]

what do you mean by recovery? Recovering 100% or most of the traffic lost in the update or recovering through manual penalty?

As the OP said he didn't receive the penalty, he falls in the first category which is much harder to recover from because Google updates generally change the SERPs structure greatly as well as pushes a site back in rankings considering all the metrics of a site.

I am not talking about manual penalty here. You got me wrong.

Wait, you say it's more difficult to recover from an update than a manual penalty?

Anyway, I'm done. My take is that you can recover from an update, core, spam, product review, doesn't matter. It takes time, and most of the time, a complete change to the SEO and content strategy.

 

[nohupt]

they have a ton of filters. after all the filters are done cycling you'll know your true rankings. could still take more time.

 

[Black Belt Spodermen]

Wait, you say it's more difficult to recover from an update than a manual penalty?

Anyway, I'm done. My take is that you can recover from an update, core, spam, product review, doesn't matter. It takes time, and most of the time, a complete change to the SEO and content strategy.

Yes, and your post proves my point. I am also done.

Hi David,

I'm working at a website for like the past four years that earned me pretty good money (I actually lived from it for the past two years).

However, for the past 6 months, it has been affected by the last Google updates and now the earnings are the lowest ever.

It has so much potential. Honestly, I love working on it. I and my team actually became experts in that niche.

But damn, it feels so unmotivated to go to the bottom again and it feels like we're doing something wrong.

Do you think it is worth the struggle to revive the website?

We're constantly working to improve the old content and make everything perfect but there's not much progress so far and the volume of work is insane.

Do you think is possible to make that website work again if it has been affected by these updates?

I don't know. I see people saying "don't give up", "work your ass", "good things will come with time", but it feels like Google don't appreciate the efforts we put it.

What do you say? Should we continue with the website? Start a new one?

I'd love to know your input on this. I'd need a bit of motivation honestly!

 

[SpartanHoplite]

You need to wait for a couple of weeks, im in the same situation and my rank got tanked!

 

[EMAOneBillion]

Yes, and your post proves my point. I am also done.

You are that tryhard to dig into my post to find something to work against me?
Good for me that I recovered that site anyway.

 

[Prehisto]

this sucks so bad.
got hit really bad.
the competitors are ranking purely on backlinks, mostly black hat while my page was based more on content