Google Broad Core Update December 2020

im my niche mapquest is outranking a 1st page site and fortune 1000 companies at the top.
 
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gdizzle said:
Checked three kws they were at 3, 12, and 15. Now 1.

Anyhow, I gotta just stop bitching and start doing better. :)

feels nice to just bitch sometimes though D:
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how is the percent of exact match anchors of these keywords for those newly ranked top positions?
 
I think exact anchor text was a factor in this update. Anyone else also thinks this?

My ratio was 2% but I still got hit. Dropped 30%.
 
Faysal ahmed said:
For some of them it's going better now, some of them get a little hit I think. It might be just about content quality. I will wait 1 more week to determine anything yet.
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I don't see good content ranking any better. The Artificial Intelligence from Google is still crap.
Big websites can rank any BS just with their authority. With that being said, Google likes long content for websites with no authority.

marcus528 said:
I think exact anchor text was a factor in this update. Anyone else also thinks this?

My ratio was 2% but I still got hit. Dropped 30%.
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As I said a few days ago, EMD got hit hard and are now pretty pointless.
With only 2% of exact anchor I don't see how you can get hit negatively. It also depends on the quality of your backlinks too. But it might be possible anchor juice is pretty dead, same as EMD. So you might not get any kind of bonus with an exact anchor.
So the raw power of your backlinks and the contextuality of the backlinks (the words surroundings your backlinks) might be the only important factors now. Actually when you look at a natural links profile, exact anchors don't really matter.
 
The good news is my authority site is gradually returning to the normal state. I used to get my website in search withing 1-2 hours now after posting 2 fresh articles yesterday it got listed in google in the similar fashion. Apart from that the spammy new sites are now placed in 2nd page after dominating the first pages for continuously more than 10 days.

Have anyone else noticed it?
 
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I wonder if large sites will ever see any penalty for their thin affiliate content.

Google has a bee in their bonnet for what they see as "thin affiliate content," but honestly how is this any different?

https://www.thespruceeats.com/best-coffee-makers-to-buy-4118535
Also, they just lie - they claim they buy the products, but there is no way they actually bought and tested those coffee makers. You can tell just by how they write about them.

I would love to see one of these larger sites get slapped.
 
fb3003 said:
take a look at this https://www.keywordsheaven.com/on-page-tool/ ... see the metrics for your site and the number 1 and 2 positions. you should get some hints on what changes you need across key tags
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I just tried this tool and in the column where it lists average this and that of the first page they are all zeros. Looks like they might have a bug to fix? It looks pretty useful as a tool in the seo toolbox.
 
Amazing post from seobility I completely agree

“At least before you knew that provided you didn’t break Google’s webmaster guidelines and genuinely produced useful content, you were never going to be affected by an update reducing your traffic by -40%-80% just like that.
That stuff was supposed to be reserved for the spammers, scrappers and link scheme guys.
Now all these people outrank you with their expired domain 301 redirect and Fiverr articles just because of their link authority.
Now you suddenly ask why you shouldn’t start to spam yourself. Sure, you will get penalized eventually but so will you with your “white hat” site anyway at one point, and making a spam site is so much cheaper and simpler than a legit one. Why not just start making 10?
And now the web is a poorer place because you can’t find genuinely expert content anymore in narrow fields that aren’t covered by the big brands and mainstream sites. And full of even more spammers.”
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Nail. On. Head.

Because it’s not just the fact that spam continues to rank that’s the problem. The spam has always been there.

It’s the fact that even if you’re playing by the rules, you might still take a big hit in a Core update.

Can’t happen to you? Well…

https://www.seobility.net/en/blog/d...ZBQOdXWGYNdGEO0NCdgiVT1ry56I8N3tQLldje4pjUV2k
 
Thanks papa G. Gotta love Blackhat SEO.

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Vladamir said:
Amazing post from seobility I completely agree


Nail. On. Head.

Because it’s not just the fact that spam continues to rank that’s the problem. The spam has always been there.

It’s the fact that even if you’re playing by the rules, you might still take a big hit in a Core update.

Can’t happen to you? Well…

https://www.seobility.net/en/blog/d...ZBQOdXWGYNdGEO0NCdgiVT1ry56I8N3tQLldje4pjUV2k
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I have read the whole post. The author was absolutely correct.

I have checked manually into Google "free classified"

Out of 8 three websites on the top page 3 were hacked redirecting to p*rn website of fake facebook version.

Looks like the old days are back again.
 
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Zooker said:
I just tried this tool and in the column where it lists average this and that of the first page they are all zeros. Looks like they might have a bug to fix? It looks pretty useful as a tool in the seo toolbox.
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yes the avg column is all zero. i use that tool + excel to come up with avg for the top 5 positions. that gives me an insight on what i need to achieve for my particular keyword.

if you want to go to next level, take a look at CORA and POP.
 
It is quite tempting to go really blackhat sometimes.
I know people who only do spam indexing on expired domains. They create thousand of pages of automatic content and rank on very long tail keywords.
The domain gets burnt after a few months. But they bank decently during that time and repeat the process.
And they don't worry about Google updates because they already know their domains will die at some point. And they don't have to compete with large authority websites which get a free pass from Google whatever they write.
My testing website using translated content also shows me Google is still pretty stupid to know what a good content is when there is no backlink.
 
Have you guys seen the chatter around the 2019 guidelines Google pointed to in this update? https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2019/08/core-updates

I'm seeing this new section about mass-produced being some new addition, but I'm finding on blogs from January 2020 referencing this same passage so I don't think it's new and some SEO folks are pointing at it like a smoking gun. I mean, maybe that is more important now, but I'm not seeing any particular facts to support it.

I just don't see Google being able to directly tell if this paragraph on Page A is better than the paragraph on Page B. Looking at top results that are trash seems to prove that case.

It feels like G has changed how they deem site authority now. Has anyone seen anything with how they built backlinks, such as to the main page vs inner pages that is a factor?

Could freshness of content have something to do with it?

There's an answer in there somewhere in the data. We just have to play Sherlock Holmes to see what aspect is now more in play.
 
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