Google Broad Core Update December 2020

I got hit by the December update but today my rankings recovered. Anyone else see the same?
Saw some nice increase in traffic after 60% drop
Same! Finally seeing my rankings get back to normal (and some even better than pre update) after a long week of dropped rankings!

Still early to say but happy to see keywords gaining back positions! :)
 
Health / Medical website. White hat. Not building links (few reddit, quora, wiki, folkd, mix). Focusing on content, high quality from medical textbooks and published papers, citing the sources.

Dropped from 1.5K unique users /day to around 700. 99% from organic search
On september (2nd-4th) happened the same thing, huge drop and after 2 weeks did better than ever.
Just hope this time will be the same, going down 2 weeks and then up again.

The change I'm going to make is reassign the posts I have written personally from admin to my username, write a bio, link to socials and linked in, etc to comply with EAT. Few more links, revisit old low quality content and keep writing new.. maybe start sharing on facebook Page and groups as well...
 
Today the movements I see over dozens of sites are even more than at 4th of December. Some of the websites are coming back, some are going even lower, some that had gains now are being kicked down. WTF Google make your mind...
 
some positve movement today on a 7 months site

not a super recovery but at least

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and today for my keywords i am seeing 4 fat ads above the organic results, this gigantic shit is on the half of the whole 1st page, never seen this before
 
Today the movements I see over dozens of sites are even more than at 4th of December. Some of the websites are coming back, some are going even lower, some that had gains now are being kicked down. WTF Google make your mind...
and today for my keywords i am seeing 4 fat ads above the organic results, this gigantic shit is on the half of the whole 1st page, never seen this before
My rankings have come back on 1 of my sites!


i get a sense that they realized that they fucked up again with the search result: pure garbage sites getting top position. i think they reversed it in the last 24 hours.

update = i think i spoke too soon. ranking went back to what it was 48 hours ago.
 
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Like a lot of you, my rankings have somewhat recovered in the last 12 hours for the sites that were hit.

Google is an enigmatic cunt sometimes.
 
@splishsplash will you stop sending people to this thread to defend you.

Seriously, nobody cares, man....

We're here to talk about the December core update, not your wounded ego.

I didn't send anyone here, James.

I was active here talking about the update, but some people are finding my opinions about the update too controversial, so I've just taken things into private with a few people to prevent drama.
 
I didn't send anyone here, James.

I was active here talking about the update, but some people are finding my opinions about the update too controversial, so I've just taken things into private with a few people to prevent drama.
Updates are controversial, some are happy and some complain.
As I mentioned before, I don't use google but a few days ago I checked one of my keywords and I thought, from user's perspective, the results had improved.
 
Same Here, rankings recovered on 2 of my sites after a week.
 
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