Core Update - Affiliate Sites
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tophi
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I saw massive jump in some niches for a a week or 2, then it goes to normal. After that some websites went down, where other up, but there no significant change on the backlinks or content in this period from my perspective. I track about 30 competitors, and they all are world wide websites with millions of visitors.
BacklinkDotNet
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Same here!
ravi88927620
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My Affiliate Website is small but not dead yet like your it is getting 10% less impressions before update.
Mxty
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Don't think it's even been two weeks since this core update? It was on the 25th May
It's flattened almost all of mine, as you can see. These vary in age, one or two are probably between 6-9 months old.
Mxty
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Mxty
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In further reading about the update here, in the comments: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-may-2022-core-update-33482.html
It appears many affiliate/info style websites have been hit severely, but no answers as such.
Annoyingly though, in checking my rankings, some of the sites that seemingly survived affiliate wise are the ones that are heavily link built too.
It appears many affiliate/info style websites have been hit severely, but no answers as such.
Annoyingly though, in checking my rankings, some of the sites that seemingly survived affiliate wise are the ones that are heavily link built too.
Mxty
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What did you do to recover from Jul 2021? Interestingly looking back I lost about 20% then too, but didn't actually think much of it.
ravi88927620
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I think this update is simply uplifting the rankings of website those are having links to the post, irrespective of content optimization.
nSnoopy
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Nothing.
After the update ended my earnings were done for the whole month, but starting august it started to rise again.
Basically it was something like this: Update started>traffic stays stable>earnings drop>update ends>earnings starts to recover.
As a conclusion, in my case the update basically kept the traffic going but it didn't bring traffic that was converting or buying intending.
After august i started to push content and eventually my traffic started growing and there was an update in november last year which doubled my comissions.
Mxty
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That's really odd, did you see a sway in traffic to more of your info content? Moving away from the aff content.
This update sucks. From 7 sites, 5 are dead. No PBN"s used.
Indeed it does, this graph looks similar to pretty much all of mine - have you got a plan on what you're going to do next?
Jeepy
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I'll leave all my aff sites alone, won't make new ones. This era is done. I'll rethink my strategy, probably will go for one product affiliate website. TOP 10 bla bla sites are dead (if you are not an authority or want churn n burn project).
Mxty
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Sadly this is primarily what I chose to expand over the past year... or more. Feel like there will be any form of roll back?
What do yours have that mine don't, what's the secret sauce! Haha
nSnoopy
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I hardly had any info content even now i have very few info articles.
