From 5.5 MILLION traffic/mo to ZERO

Royal96 said:

Are you using a custom script or how are you creating the articles at this scale?

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srdjan87 said:

askingalot is officially dead. It got deindexed from Google. These kinds of websites unfortunately don't work in the long run if they get good traffic.

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sam55 said:

Both askinglot & everythingwhat made good money for almost 2 years. Lots of sites still indexed. Why google not deindexing them all at once?

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sam55 said:

Both askinglot & everythingwhat made good money for almost 2 years. Lots of sites still indexed. Why google not deindexing them all at once?

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Alma said:

In my opinion, it is because the costs would outweight what they would gain. Unless this "problem" goes mainstream, they won't do a massive scale fix. The content exactly answers what the users are for, they stay for long and have low bounce rate. I think checking content that's made up from many different sources would also be very experience. That is just my opinion. There are big authoritative sites that were getting millions of traffic with normal content and they started to do these kind of articles as well. If you were google, would you punish such website? Additionally there are hundreds of sites getting 50k-100k traffic, is it worth it for google to deindex them?

Just my thoughts, I might be wrong

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KHer0 said:

Actually, any old enough member here knows 100% this is false. And google has emplyees lurking in this forum all the time.

I personally had a close friend whom Matt Cuts tweeted his BST service and de-indexed his whole network. This is a public incident so its all I can tell

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Alma said:

In my opinion, it is because the costs would outweight what they would gain. Unless this "problem" goes mainstream, they won't do a massive scale fix. The content exactly answers what the users are for, they stay for long and have low bounce rate. I think checking content that's made up from many different sources would also be very experience. That is just my opinion. There are big authoritative sites that were getting millions of traffic with normal content and they started to do these kind of articles as well. If you were google, would you punish such website? Additionally there are hundreds of sites getting 50k-100k traffic, is it worth it for google to deindex them?

Just my thoughts, I might be wrong

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praetserge said:

Actually makes a lot of sense.

Also, google likes pushing the hard work on to the webmasters themselves. So if those sites plagiarised your content then report them.
I don't know... just a wild guess, maybe after many reports they finally deindex those sites.

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Alexion said:

It could be, no one can guess what's in Google's mind and how they view things.

However, personally, I believe backlinks play a big role in these websites getting deindexed. The reasons I say this is because I've been monitoring a few "niche" ones that don't have a huge backlink profile. One could say they have no manually built backlinks at all. yet, they translate the questions in 10 languages, have 4,000,000 pages indexed and are doing fine.

It's just a thought.

Honestly, I was keeping askinglot on a pedestal, because in my opinion, they were doing everything right. Was going through SOME of their backlinks, and most of them, if not all, were legit gained from webmasters just linking out to references.

It could very well be Google just doesn't want them, end of story.

I also remembered they were not using Adsense, but something else.
Maybe it was about money after all? Kind of a stretch, but no one really knows.

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Alexion said:

It could be, no one can guess what's in Google's mind and how they view things.

However, personally, I believe backlinks play a big role in these websites getting deindexed. The reasons I say this is because I've been monitoring a few "niche" ones that don't have a huge backlink profile. One could say they have no manually built backlinks at all. yet, they translate the questions in 10 languages, have 4,000,000 pages indexed and are doing fine.

It's just a thought.

Honestly, I was keeping askinglot on a pedestal, because in my opinion, they were doing everything right. Was going through SOME of their backlinks, and most of them, if not all, were legit gained from webmasters just linking out to references.

It could very well be Google just doesn't want them, end of story.

I also remembered they were not using Adsense, but something else.
Maybe it was about money after all? Kind of a stretch, but no one really knows.

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Josh Butler said:

Just for the experiment, I started mine about 2 months ago. Google has slowly started picking my site. So far so good.

As per my experience, scraping is not the hard part but getting the posts indexed is. You need to constantly build quality backlinks and lots of social signals, to get your posts indexed.

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mdevo said:

Now it's time to create some more threads about kknews.cc and also kill it. I am pretty sure you can do it boys
Imagine what would have happened if you didn't create at least 30 threads about PAA method around BHW. Those boys from askinglot and similar would still rank and bank

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JM0312 said:

Are you just talking about midogguide.com? Another spam site (with millions pages) that translates its content in different languages?

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mdevo said:

Now it's time to create some more threads about kknews.cc and also kill it. I am pretty sure you can do it boys
Imagine what would have happened if you didn't create at least 30 threads about PAA method around BHW. Those boys from askinglot and similar would still rank and bank

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Maslenok said:

Can you tell me what CMS it has?

It's not like his content is translated. Maybe a big team writes it...

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Daemon said:

What's kknews.cc? Is that an AI content generated site or scraped content site or something?

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mdevo said:

Yeah, definitely not translated LMAO. 301 Chinese kids write it 24/7.

Find it yourself.

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Daemon said:

Find what myself? It's not in English, I don't even really know what I'm supposed to be looking for.

Is it AI generated and/or RSS autoblog generated. plus auto-translation, to pass it off as original...? That's the only guess I can come up with, beyond that I throw up my hands

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