Recent content by Steptoe

Didn't the last 2 spam updates do away with that canonical trick you're attempting?

I think the key word here is was. I've removed many pages that were receiving traffic but only when that traffic dropped off or tanked completely. Many times I pretty much copy/pasted the entire page content onto a parasite and rode the traffic wave for longer. But I've never removed a page that...

The leaked Claude system prompt actually did specify gov sites as a favoured source of information: Favor original sources (e.g. company blogs, peer-reviewed papers, gov sites, SEC) over aggregators and secondary sources. Find the highest-quality original sources. Skip low-quality sources like...

Most of those domains in the screenshot come from Money Robot. They are set up to look like real web2.0/free blog sites but if you submit content through a browser rather than through the Money Robot interface your content will be deleted with a day or so.

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It was always gonna happen sooner or later. It's just a content source for AI overviews now.

Have your ranks completely died? What were they replaced with - brands? If your content on the affected pages is pushing affiliates, I've had success with just taking the deranked content off my site and slapping it on a parasite (with maybe a few rewrites/embelishments), only to see it climb...

I'd be careful with anything besides naked/branding-type links for a site with no current presence, as IIRC there was an attribute in the Google leaks that covered 'first retrieval' content and anchors.

What are your T1s like? Good internal linkage or basically orphaned?

Google has updated its JSON-LD parser to only perform a single pass of HTML unescaping. So if you use JSON-LD structured data you need to update your markup to use proper escapes. This is especially relevant for sites using CMSs, themes, or apps (Shopify, WooCommerce, etc.) that auto-generate...

This is the ideal way to build on competitors backlinks - become part of the consensus that Google loves so much.

Do you have a link to where an official EU body is pushing DDG?

Apart from what you've mentioned, I look at: RDs - referring domains, rather than total backlinks Indexation - does a site:domain search bring back loads of indexed results or just a few (or none) Ranks - is the site actually ranking for anything with more than ### monthly searches Your...

I think the question is do you really think all your content can provide genuine value? The majority of published content on the web is filler. It's doubtful that every piece of content you can produce will have genuine value that can't be found elsewhere, or that hasn't already been covered by...

Interesting, as it's arguably one of the easiest to automate too.