Recent content by benzema86

Hello Guys, My website was hit last year in October by the Google Spam Update and I lost 99% of my keywords and traffic. I turned to this forum last year to see similar reports and many suffered the same fate. The observation I made back then was, that upon submitting my sitemap the...

I agree. The Penalty however in some cases however is not hidden if you know what to look out for. In my case there are two observations I made for my site which was hit in October. 1. Sitemap shows "Discovered URLs 0" in GSC even after submitting multipe times (new submitted sites show the Url...

No, because I don´t want to risk the Penalty/Shadowban to be imported to the new domain as well. But I feel it doesn´t matter anyways because given the fact that I AI Spun all my articles and uploaded them to the new domain name, it just will be a matter of time until the copy site will get...

Thanks for posting this. This explains why this happened after the spam update. However there is no reduction in crawl budget, there is no crawl budget at all for affected sites. The site sits at "Discovered URLs: 0" since October.

There is nothing you can do about it. I was hit by the spam update as well and lost all my traffic. Now I regained about 15% traffic back, however Google still refuses to read my sitemap. After the update I am constantly presented with "Discovered URLS: 0" when refreshing the sitemap &...

2 sites with mixed content on different hosts (AI, Spun, AI/Human edited and 100% human written posts) are affected by the update with having 95% less traffic and show "discovered urls - 0" in GSC. The other site (Blogspot) is 100% AI content & thin content (under 500 words) plus zero DA and...

Yes, pretty "interesting" - This immediately caught my attention after I was obliterated by the update. Two of my sites show a discorvered url 0 count after the update. One Bloggersite of mine just displays the number of URLs just fine. I opened another thread here, asking if members made...

In my case ( my site basically dead after the update, 95% loss) Google won´t even crawl my sitemap anymore. Next to the sitemap is a displayed URL count of 0, it is like that for over 2 weeks while before the update the URL count was displayed immediately after submission. Even changing the...

Damn. Thank you for your reply. So it seems my bad gut feeling about this was right and it´s Google´s way to tell us that after the update our sites are not even worth crawling anymore to waste non of their budget, without telling it upfront.

Yes this is the same thing on my end, and it is pretty odd because before the update the URL count of the sitemap was visible in an instant after submission. Even just few seconds after submissions for all these years it displayed the exact url count. After the update it shows 0 discovered urls...

Hi there, two of my sites were hit by the Oct. Spam Update and are basically dead now. Both these sites don´t display any URL count after sitemap submission. Before the update when submitting the sitemap, URL count was visible almost instantly! I like to know if this causality and has...

Ah looks bad, looks like mine. Site was about to take off and now took a nosedive thanks to Google. Can you check for me please if your sitemap in GSC shows the number of discovered urls? Since the Spam Update Google does not display any discovered urls in my site map while before the update it...

All my articles have a lot more words then 500-700 and I got hit pretty hard as well, so I don´t think it´s a matter of content length nor that if this would improve everything. I am still convinced that what is happening now to a lot of sites is coming from a flawed update. Even GSC is not...

So, my site was hit after the update as well. 90-95% down in impressions & traffic for almost 2 weeks now with no sign of recovery. Site mixed with human content & edited AI content. No link building what so ever. Articles at least 1500 words long. However, I made these odd findings: 1) In...