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December Core 2020 Update: How did it affect you ?
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Dr. Reddit
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My sites dropped. One went from page 2 to page 5.
- Mar 21, 2013
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Reddit links penalized big time IMO. First impressions, do your own research.
Removing Reddit from the link sauce. I definitely think they targeted Reddit links a while ago. Now I think it's pretty much confirmed as far as I can see.
Removing Reddit from the link sauce. I definitely think they targeted Reddit links a while ago. Now I think it's pretty much confirmed as far as I can see.
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I'm not sure about reddit.
My reddit test... before the december update my total ranking improvement was 67 positions (across 5 keywords), right after the update the total improvement was 99 (made a mistake, total improvement was 108), so 41 positions improvement after the update.
I'm not saying that the improvement is because of the reddit links but I see no penalty because of the reddit links either.
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- Mar 21, 2013
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Could be anything really, but I do know for a fact in one case I monitor the only thing changed was these links. Anyway, whatever, gotta wait this out and see.
magicjones
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- Oct 10, 2018
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Also lost a lot of traffic yesterday, search results look random, they borked something up I think, roll it back google!
PassiveJ
Regular Member
- Aug 26, 2017
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Similar situation here, fall in traffic across all my sites but the most white hat one was hit hardest? Legit auction domain with all natural links. Hopefully this won't be permanent.
allosaurusmktg
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- Nov 22, 2020
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For the newbies... what are google core vitals?
Mukeshwar Singh
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- Mar 12, 2020
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One of my site traffic increased from 650+/day to 1000+/day... Amazon affiliate site traffic decreased from 180 to 130/day as of now, let's see how it goes further!
Mukeshwar Singh
Regular Member
- Mar 12, 2020
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Doesn't matter too much, if your site has good links and good content, the traffic will be normal in a week. At least that happened to me the last time!
Mukeshwar Singh
Regular Member
- Mar 12, 2020
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Yup, it'll dance for one week, you can't really say what is happening. After once week, see if it settles at a range, if yes, that's what you can expect.
digilov69
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- Nov 23, 2020
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All my BH sites had a huge boost. Most of them are adult-oriented so I don't know if Google just dropped the ball once again concerning adult niches.
Two dropshipping sites just had a bounce but nothing critical. Anyway, I'll keep churning without burning needs.
At this point we all need to admit that riding your IM over white hat rules seems plain and simple stupidity.
Two dropshipping sites just had a bounce but nothing critical. Anyway, I'll keep churning without burning needs.
At this point we all need to admit that riding your IM over white hat rules seems plain and simple stupidity.
Vladamir
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Looking like an update related to links. My sites with any link building whitehat guestpost sites or blackhat pbn sites all got a hit. My sites I havent touched in months all jumped. Had a zombie site I had let fade double in traffic over night. All these sites had the same type of content built in the same way.
stfumanish
Regular Member
- Jul 26, 2020
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Faced Downfall of 5 times. 
I really hope things get better in a week or two.
I really hope things get better in a week or two.
Mukeshwar Singh
Regular Member
- Mar 12, 2020
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Nothing gonna change, you have to make more links and stuff, or wait until the next core update!
digilov69
Registered Member
- Nov 23, 2020
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Google just shake the results and that's it! They keep this charade just to scare the hell out of you. Keep your BH strategy and you'll be fine
Mukeshwar Singh
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