December 2024 Spam Update
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wwsosop
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- Jul 7, 2024
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I did nothing I have not done in the past and added no real links that mattered either. Must have been a domain wide penalty
snitcher44
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- Sep 2, 2020
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It really doesn't matter whatever you do. It just all about luck now.
DarkLordzz
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- Nov 17, 2020
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So we just wait? The update is over but nothing changed. Keywords are still gone. Traffic is less than 2 a day. It's bad. It's the only site that earns me money. Extremely depressing
Start new website man
- May 14, 2023
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Spam or AI generated websites are churn and burn projects, you can't expect it to last for years, if your website was affected, move on to the next one and keep in mind that it will happen again, if you can earn money before it is penalized it worth it, if not, you need to rethink
Klausgocrazy
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- Jan 24, 2024
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Can you explain in details what you did?
My ecommerce website harmonystore.pl has been penalized. 3 months old domain, legitimate store (no dropshipping), invested over 15.000$ in shop, brand, and content (including building SM content).
The only thing which comes to my mind is wrong implementation of the company rating widget (global) in the footer. The schema with the rating is identical on every subpage. Every indexed subpage displays the same star rating. Could such implementation be considered spam (in light of the recent December Spam Update)?
The only thing which comes to my mind is wrong implementation of the company rating widget (global) in the footer. The schema with the rating is identical on every subpage. Every indexed subpage displays the same star rating. Could such implementation be considered spam (in light of the recent December Spam Update)?
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What Technique did you apply to to get Traffic again?
- Jun 14, 2010
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All my dead sites wokeup after this update.
IslanderMark
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- Sep 2, 2020
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Damn really sorry to see this for you with the amount of money you invested into your site.
My site was hit as well. I also did everything basically perfect and followed the guidelines to a tee basically. So it makes it so much more annoying.
I think I notice a trend and would assume that this update just hit certain sites that are within a certain age. My site was about 6 months old, yours was younger. This may be a new thing where they really do not want new sites to rank and consider sites under a certain age as "spam".
Just a thought since so many seemingly well made sites are getting tanked right now and most seem to be newer sites from what I have seen and heard.
I think you may be right. Since few days I found around 10-15 cases of pages which were hit by Spam Update. I think 80-90% of those sites were few-months-old domains. So far this is the only one common point.
Klausgocrazy
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- Jan 24, 2024
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The same thing I did with the last, submit to GSC, submit sitemap, start posting.