Recent content by PassiveJ

I feel your pain, I've put almost 5 years work into my site and it sucks when this happens. Having said that, if you have taken a predominantly white hat approach then this should improve your chances of recovery down the line in my experience (unless you are in a YMYL niche). Some of my...

How is is going @LeanTuna ? I don't get any data showing for Discover, likely because I have only recently installed GSC. My site is pretty much decimated at this point, KW rankings and traffic are dropping slowly day on day. Looking at the GSC organic searches it looks like only about 10...

My traffic is still at less than half of what it was. KWs are very erratic, some rankings haven't returned, some returned then dropped again, some came back at a lower rank. No idea what's happening, it's like a site wide google dance o_O

Thanks, I'm kinda the opposite to you, I've been banished for main KWs but still ranking for secondary ones with same articles. It gives me reassurance that others are experiencing this, and I'm hoping rankings return as it makes no sense that most of my articles aren't even in top 100 serps for...

I have seen a similar problem with my main affiliate site. Many main KW rankings vanished from the serps, I made a thread here. It seems there was an unconfirmed google update around 14th Jan, which is around the time my traffic dropped (around 50%!). See the article below...

Can't think what I might have done wrong. Site is almost completely white hat, some of these KW's have been on page 1 for years. All unique hand written content, unique images etc. will try and do my own analysis over the next few days.

Anyone else experienced this? I noticed a load of my pages (unfortunately the ones getting the most traffic) have dropped out of the SERPs for the main KW for the article. They still seem to be indexed. All seem to have dropped on the above date. I can see that the Helpful Content and Link Spam...

Thanks, asked a similar question on the Amazon Seller forums and was confirmed there as being ok.

Hi, could anyone suggest an good google analytics alternative please? I'm looking for one which is as accurate in terms of measuring traffic numbers as google analytics. The free plugins seem a bit hit and miss, I don't mind if there's a small subscription cost, thanks.

Hi, does anyone know, if I create an Amazon affiliate link to a product I am also selling as part of Amazon FBA, is this allowed?

I'm using a 3rd party visitors tracker which says my traffic halved on 30th March. Am wondering if it's related to this update? Number of clicks through to Amazon seem almost unaffected, as are main KW positions. Conversion rate has been pretty bad this month so far though, which is another story.

What update is this? My traffic dropped by half the past 2 days.

Does anyone upload pics to the likes of Shutterstock to sell? I'm accumulating quite a few product pics over time and am thinking of uploading them somewhere to see if I can make some commissions over time. I'm guessing there isn't much to be made unless you have a ton of images. What are the...

@MisterF do you currently have any discounts on single links please?

Interesting. This is good in theory for anyone writing lengthy unique content. However the 'expert knowledge' part still makes me think this is google saying they will promote authority sites above all else regardless.