After Google Core/Spam Update - Problem Resolved !
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how did you choose which posts to delete? I've heard quite a few people saying that this method helps sites recover, but I've never asked them how they choose which posts to delete....
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That suggests Google might be easing penalties, reassessing sites, or competitors are improving their SEO strategies—analyzing their recovery tactics could help you adapt.
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that's not what I asked... and I also didn't ask you, so next time please don't reply if you're going to give me garbage output by garbage AI
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What exactly did you do to regain your traffic? Also, I would like to know also the same question you asked,
"Do you have any idea how to recover from this update?"
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Great question really.
I have over a dozen exact match domains for local service keywords that were ranking pretty well around the first page for their targeted keywords. They got hit a while ago and I kind of gave up on them since then.
One thing I noticed though is I had a few 1 page sites with emd and they never even lost rankings really. Then I took one of the sites with added blog posts and removed them all. Rankings came back over night basically (actually 2 nights).
So I can kind of vouch for deleting pages, but no idea why deleting the pages worked. Obviously I am in a different situation since I was ranking basically single page websites. I still have some other sites that have blog posts that I might do some more tests on and see if there is any correlation I can notice.
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this sounds to me like google is now treating sites like they've been treating PPC campaigns in Google Ads (ie. they award a quality scores to the entire site, so - in the case of PPC campaigns - when some of the ads or ad groups don't perform the quality score of your GAds account drops and your entire campaign gets less clicks and / or higher costs.... and in the case of organic searches this means that if some of the pages don't perform - whatever perform might mean in this context - your entire site suffers by losing rankings, but as soon as you remove the non-performing pages your site regains the lost rankings. That's the best analogy I can make about why deleting pages recovers rankings)...
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In my case that does makes sense. The blog posts were not optimized, purposefully, for any keywords. They were just there to have some context around the internal link back to the homepage.
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seeing what garbage ranks in google nowadays I don't think optimization is the issue. If I think better about it, I think the pages that google considered to be non-performing were those that got no traffic.... but that's just an assumption, I wish someone who knew for sure confirmed this....
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I gotcha. Right now I am in a phase where I am targeting tons of low competition keywords so I am a little out of the loop when it comes to keywords that have real competition. What I have seen locally is that you can rank pretty easily for local service keywords even when going against bigger more powerful websites that are using an inner page that is trying to rank for the keyword. City populations around 30k, and services for like plumbers and electricians.
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that's good news. Not for me since I don't care about SEO (and google in particular) anymore, but it's good news for the other fellow SEOs
Akinyande ayo
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That's exactly what it means.
Though I'm not working on any recovery for now, but I don't like deleting pages, I prefer to delete the entire content and rewrite.
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I think both options would work the same as google's actually assessing the content, so I don't think it matters whether the better content is under the same URL, or a new one. Or does it?? I'm not sure...
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Google's assessing the content so deleting the entire content is good enough unless there's also issue with the link profile of the particular page in question.
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