A week since my website was hit by the update

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I lost 99% of my Google impressions in the first 2 days.
While some people said that after 1-2 days their traffic recovered at least partially, mine is still 0.
I have more than 100 articles and hundreds of original images, but it looks like Google considered my website low value.
The niche is travel, and I used AI for writing, but I checked all information to be correct, and I skipped fluff, still having over 2000 words long articles.
It looks like Google is preferring websites like Yelp, Tripadvisor, Flicker, pinterest, government websites, brick and mortar travel agencies, while my website is nowhere, even if my content is better.
Yesterday I read the Google content quality guidelines, and what I understand from there is that all websites like mine are VERY LOW VALUE CONTENT, according to the EEAT. Probably this is the reason while I disappeared from search.
However, many people said that the update is not over yet, and the hit websites, might recover the lost traffic.
Should I pay the hosting for April, or I should abandon it?

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Create a checklist for improving your content based on the update that affected you.Ive lost over 100k visitors (65% drop) with the helpful content update and that's what I'm doing to correct it. you need to update what you are doing. Focus on Higher quality content and links, branding, EAT and quality, quality, quality
 
I hear people speculate about long content being a risk factor nowadays. Something about all SEOs used to game the SERPs by writing 2.5-3k word articles because that's what used to work, but Google now rewards shorter content that answers the question in the first few paragraphs. If nothing changes maybe you should try and trim down your articles just a bit, no one reads 2k+ words today unfortunately.

Also, EEAT is probably not real.
 
Where can I find info about the latest "popular" Google Update?
 
Gonna take you ages to recover

If you're not really attached to the site, then I'd restart
 
Carolus Rex said:
no one reads 2k+ words today unfortunately.
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No entirly true, but yes, you should defo make short and long posts, and explore each subject you do with both, as well as interviews, or lists and anything else you can change the content too. (podcast, video blog)
 
Carolus Rex said:
I hear people speculate about long content being a risk factor nowadays. Something about all SEOs used to game the SERPs by writing 2.5-3k word articles because that's what used to work, but Google now rewards shorter content that answers the question in the first few paragraphs. If nothing changes maybe you should try and trim down your articles just a bit, no one reads 2k+ words today unfortunately.

Also, EEAT is probably not real.
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I have table of contents, and they can go to read what they want. That is how a quality page should look like, to find all the information in one place.

EEAT is very important. They said there that if a page has only one of the characteristics of the low value content pages it should be considered low value. This is very easy for a small site to be considered low value. If a content looks like it was copied from somewhere, assume that it was copied even if you don't find the source, and considered the page low value. If the author don't appear in Forbes or other important place on the internet, assume it's low value content. And so on.
 
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I think you should defo just spend time doing minor adjustments to this, and really trying again in the same niche, or even different, but making sure you change strategy, or do something drastically different that you can see a difference with hopefully. Slow your role on this one, till it can proove its worth again, although saying that, you only go back less than a year! so its not an issue, i had 1 site recover well after the last update, but then this update knocked it down, and i think i only added 5 articles between. I noticed its still getting indexed daily, so I should defo captialize on it, and keep growing it, hopefully you find that with your blog if its of good quality.
 
If your content is genuinely high-quality and offers value, it's worth riding out the storm. Meanwhile, diversify. Look at ways to drive traffic from social media and other sources. Invest some time in updating your articles, maybe add new insights or user-generated content - travelers love that. Hold off on major decisions until the update fully rolls out.
 
tazarbm said:
you underestimate google's craving for our data. EEAT is very real :)
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Well, I don't believe a lot of things Google say they can measure. Looking at all the spam that's in the SERPs constantly since they announced both EAT and EEAT, doesn't add up.
 
Carolus Rex said:
Well, I don't believe a lot of things Google say they can measure. Looking at all the spam that's in the SERPs constantly since they announced both EAT and EEAT, doesn't add up.
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spammers always find ways to circumvent google's filters, but this doesn't mean that the filters don't exist
 
Panther28 said:
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I think you should defo just spend time doing minor adjustments to this, and really trying again in the same niche, or even different, but making sure you change strategy, or do something drastically different that you can see a difference with hopefully. Slow your role on this one, till it can proove its worth again, although saying that, you only go back less than a year! so its not an issue, i had 1 site recover well after the last update, but then this update knocked it down, and i think i only added 5 articles between. I noticed its still getting indexed daily, so I should defo captialize on it, and keep growing it, hopefully you find that with your blog if its of good quality.
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Checking my weeks calendar! How did you get on @shaggy99 ? Did you keep and adjust, or did you start again?
 
shaggy99 said:
I lost 99% of my Google impressions in the first 2 days.
While some people said that after 1-2 days their traffic recovered at least partially, mine is still 0.
I have more than 100 articles and hundreds of original images, but it looks like Google considered my website low value.
The niche is travel, and I used AI for writing, but I checked all information to be correct, and I skipped fluff, still having over 2000 words long articles.
It looks like Google is preferring websites like Yelp, Tripadvisor, Flicker, pinterest, government websites, brick and mortar travel agencies, while my website is nowhere, even if my content is better.
Yesterday I read the Google content quality guidelines, and what I understand from there is that all websites like mine are VERY LOW VALUE CONTENT, according to the EEAT. Probably this is the reason while I disappeared from search.
However, many people said that the update is not over yet, and the hit websites, might recover the lost traffic.
Should I pay the hosting for April, or I should abandon it?

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What you should do is to unpublish, rewrite title and contents of each of your articles and you will be golden.
 
shaggy99 said:
I lost 99% of my Google impressions in the first 2 days.
While some people said that after 1-2 days their traffic recovered at least partially, mine is still 0.
I have more than 100 articles and hundreds of original images, but it looks like Google considered my website low value.
The niche is travel, and I used AI for writing, but I checked all information to be correct, and I skipped fluff, still having over 2000 words long articles.
It looks like Google is preferring websites like Yelp, Tripadvisor, Flicker, pinterest, government websites, brick and mortar travel agencies, while my website is nowhere, even if my content is better.
Yesterday I read the Google content quality guidelines, and what I understand from there is that all websites like mine are VERY LOW VALUE CONTENT, according to the EEAT. Probably this is the reason while I disappeared from search.
However, many people said that the update is not over yet, and the hit websites, might recover the lost traffic.
Should I pay the hosting for April, or I should abandon it?

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With the command "site" your website is indexed?
Move to another very cheap hosting like 10$/year, schedule 1-2 posts monthly and wait until your domain will expire.
If the penalty is removed, reset everything as before, otherwise at the time of renewal, do not renew. I do (and have often done) this.
 
shaggy99 said:
I lost 99% of my Google impressions in the first 2 days.
While some people said that after 1-2 days their traffic recovered at least partially, mine is still 0.
I have more than 100 articles and hundreds of original images, but it looks like Google considered my website low value.
The niche is travel, and I used AI for writing, but I checked all information to be correct, and I skipped fluff, still having over 2000 words long articles.
It looks like Google is preferring websites like Yelp, Tripadvisor, Flicker, pinterest, government websites, brick and mortar travel agencies, while my website is nowhere, even if my content is better.
Yesterday I read the Google content quality guidelines, and what I understand from there is that all websites like mine are VERY LOW VALUE CONTENT, according to the EEAT. Probably this is the reason while I disappeared from search.
However, many people said that the update is not over yet, and the hit websites, might recover the lost traffic.
Should I pay the hosting for April, or I should abandon it?

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Don't give up yet! Google updates take time to settle. AI content alone isn’t enough add personal experiences, expert insights, and author bios. Improve EEAT by linking to social profiles and showing real-world expertise. Try getting traffic from Pinterest and Reddit too. Keep the site for a few months and adjust based on what’s working
 
Damn that sucks, thanks god I have moved to other sector than seo.
 
shaggy99 said:
I lost 99% of my Google impressions in the first 2 days.
While some people said that after 1-2 days their traffic recovered at least partially, mine is still 0.
I have more than 100 articles and hundreds of original images, but it looks like Google considered my website low value.
The niche is travel, and I used AI for writing, but I checked all information to be correct, and I skipped fluff, still having over 2000 words long articles.
It looks like Google is preferring websites like Yelp, Tripadvisor, Flicker, pinterest, government websites, brick and mortar travel agencies, while my website is nowhere, even if my content is better.
Yesterday I read the Google content quality guidelines, and what I understand from there is that all websites like mine are VERY LOW VALUE CONTENT, according to the EEAT. Probably this is the reason while I disappeared from search.
However, many people said that the update is not over yet, and the hit websites, might recover the lost traffic.
Should I pay the hosting for April, or I should abandon it?

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  1. Check Google Search Console
  2. Improve EEAT
  3. Enhance Content Differentiation
  4. Build Authority and Backlinks
  5. Wait for the Update to Settle
 
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