Death of PAA or minor blip?

Mr Positive

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In my opinion, anything that can become spam in the eyes of Google, that place will soon be removed by google.
PAA is where many people create hundreds of huge websites in a short time, most of which are subject to google penalties.
 
It can't happen. Because people will not stop looking for questions and at the end of the day PAAs are nothing but queries, and when you answer that query you build content. Google may decrease the amount of PAAs or the frequency of PAAs, but it can't alter the searches.

Tagging @BlogPro here because he knows way more than me on this topic :)
 
Mr Positive said:
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-people-also-ask-huge-drop-off-33732.html
maybe google woke up and realised PAA was being heavily spammed, and decided to get reduce it thoughts?
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Google doesn't know its arse from its elbow at times.
They'll fuck around with this for 2-3 months then either put it back to how it was or introduce something else.
 
They are trying to make it harder to scrape it, they moved a lot of the questions to the search box, you need to render JS to see questions in the search box instead of just requesting plain html with PAA in the SERP (at least in my country).
 
Seems to be happening for too long to be a blip.

They are testing again.
 
RealDaddy said:
Tagging @BlogPro here because he knows way more than me on this topic :)
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Thanks for the tag.

As you and others have stated, PAA searches won't be impacted. Google displaying them in the SERPs, maybe?

It looks like a split test to me, Google has a hard-on for "clean SERP" pages or "structured SERP" pages.

Personally, not bothered in the slightest - as I sit on a huge cache of PAAs.

Even then, mobile searches don't seem impacted for now, so it's a matter of changing the UserAgent in the script.
 
Probably testing new ways to cluster them
For instance, you could categorize 3 most related terms and show respective PAAs in the dropdown menu
 
I don't think this is going to be the death of The People Also Ask Method for SEO.

Instead, I suspect that Google will filter better for quality.

There's definitely going to be a sea change in terms of a shift to quality.

This is where cogent, concise, and accurate information comes in.

Since the whole point of PAA is to boil down information that truly delivers on an answer and also allows for deeper information, Google's recent actions that crack down on PAA will unleash a flight to quality.

This is part of a natural progression in my view.

So it's not anything to worry about in terms of PAA disappearing overnight.

Instead, it's an opportunity for those who are actually into delivering value to the lives of the flesh-and-blood people who enter these questions into Google and who are looking for real, useful answers.
 
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