Recent content by Plops

You can't really just get good backlinks willy nilly, it doesn't work like that anymore. It's now (and has been for many years) a catch-22 situation because you have to create compelling content that people want to reference on their website, but the trouble is that if you don't have any...

I would definitely say that your site was hit by the recent updates, not just because this happened upon the updates being rolled out, but also from my own experiences of these updates so far. E.g. I have three articles published on well-known article publishing platform. All three are on the...

Sorry, bored due to lack of traffic.

This is the vibe I get from it too. It's not the usual - you were either spamming or you weren't spamming. It's - you were either unlucky, or you were lucky. I've kept a close eye on various forums regarding this update, since the update, and as soon as someone comes up with a reason as to...

What would be your course of action if you were not to give it another week? And if you do give it another week and nothing's changed (which is 99.99% certain), what action will you take then?

Google algo (not being carried out under human judgement) cannot filter out all the spam. Spammers know this and the fact that; if they throw enough crap at the wall, some of it will stick. There's so much of this activity, that the SERPS are a spam haven and have been for years (and will be...

From reading up on that, I was under the impression that Google discount spam link attacks (negative SEO), so they have zero effect on rankings. However, if they notice that there are spammy links that have been built up gradually over years, then they would potentially conclude that it was bad...

For sure! The winners are too busy nursing their hangovers after cracking open too many bottles of champagne over the past 10 days. All they care about is where the headache tablets are, not what's going on at BHW.

So basically — get as many (impossible to get) high authority backlinks. So nothing much has changed much at all within the past 15 years really then.

Out of interest, how do you know what "adjustments" to make if you (as everyone other than those at Google) don't know what Google were targeting with their core update? Wouldn't that be considered a complete stab in the dark?

They just want all organic clicks to be informational/educational, and any revenue generating clicks to come through their Ads platform, plain and simple. They know that this way they can't be viewed by regulatory bodies as being 'out of order' as they are 'informing' the consumer, while of...

My thoughts exactly, in fact I woke up today and had just one measly sale and that turned out to be a fraudulent purchase from someone using stolen cards, so I cancelled and refunded that, with no reimbursement of the transaction fees I had been charged. Essentially I woke up at a financial loss...

Same for me in the health sector, it seems like a reversal to pre-2020. I have a GBP version of my website (.co.uk) and a USD version (.com). The .com has some links built to it, the .co.uk has never had a single link built to it. Both got hit to the exact same extent with this core update...

Can I ask; whats wrong with FBN and LinkAuthority? Are they still running fine or not? Cheers

An excellent platform to use. Everything from approvals to support is done in a very time efficient manner, and crucially the quality control is really good, it's really refreshing to see people who care about providing good content/information to the web.