cozziola
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- May 20, 2014
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Glad to hear that. Are they back to the same levels as before?
Google Broad Core Update December 2020
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Glad to hear that. Are they back to the same levels as before?
GreenDog
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- Jan 19, 2008
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I did alright through the initial core update but lost about 60% on one of my sites today.
Not completely, but they almost are. Some keywords are higher now than they were before the update. This is a relatively new site though so it's hard to make accurate assessments because there's naturally quite a lot of back and forth in the rankings.
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Planning to start working on a site which got more rankings (I abandoned it for about 6 months).
- Jul 4, 2016
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Do basic site audits to ensure you have the fundamentals covered. Ensure silos are set up properly and structured data. Fill content gaps. Buy links. Pray.
BaconFingers
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- Dec 9, 2020
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Guys, is anyone still experiencing stagnant traffic since the May update? i thought this update might have been what my site needed to get it moving again but it hasn’t really gone anywhere. Despite adding author bios, increasing page speeds, improving CLS and LCP, and most importantly, adding over 180 new articles since August 9th, I’m still stuck at like 15-17k monthly views. everything is white hat so no shady stuff. This absolutely blows.
Preon
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- Apr 6, 2016
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Yes, me, for one site. Other site remains impacted.
Site 1 - less than 12 months old - Built on expired domain with lots of existing backlinks from authoritative sources. I built 3 - 4 guest post links every month. This site has mostly recovered or looks to be recovering:
Site 2 - less than 12 months old - New domain, barely any linkbuilding. Remains impacted.
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Same here. I thought I survived but today one site lost 20-30% traffic.
terrycody
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- Sep 29, 2012
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Your comment is absurdly wrong and I had to reply -
We've hired @splishsplash consulting and link building services over a year ago, not because he tried to 'sell' us his packages/knowledge, but the OPPOSITE is the truth:
He was extremely communicative, patient and helpful with us, answering ALL of our questions (which were sent on private) and he guided us (completely for FREE) about website silo and the proper infrastructure our site really needed back then.
During the whole time and message correspondence he didn't try for a single time to upsell or to ask for money, NOTHING. Which in fact was suspicious because who's working for free these days...?
Anyway, we started to follow his activity and posting on BHW, and very quickly realized how his SEO knowledge is priceless, and I'm not exaggerating.
Then after we were completely certain he knows his shit, we started to implement his suggestions (which again, we got for $0), and we INSTANTLY saw a positive ranking boost in one of our properties.
And what happened next? WE reached @splishsplash asking to hire him. Thank god he said yes (that's one of our properties after the spoken algorithm update, 100%~ increase in impressions thanks to @splishsplash) -
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I read some other bad attitude comments about this purely honest and clever guy, and it finally hit me - people are extremely ungrateful...
I never saw anyone of BHW helping that much and providing THAT MUCH value and insights about SEO or anything else, for 100% free. NEVER.
Even if you don't agree with his points, which is absolutely fine of course, this guy doesn't deserve any of the backlash posted here.
Of course, he's not a saint or something, but claiming that his SEO insights/value are worthless and all he's doing is upselling people, is unbelievably stupid, arrogant and shameful.
Don't take my words for granted, check his posting activity and judge yourself.
P.S
Here's another property @splishsplash helped us with: no traffic increase, but the traffic is steady even after the recent update (note that during weekends traffic always drops) -
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GOOD comment
so lets everyone else end this quarrel here, thats pointless
ntaifitness
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- Feb 15, 2020
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fb3003
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- Aug 14, 2015
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I agree. I learned tons of new things from @splishsplash. you could argue that what he is saying is BS. but once you go back and look at everything you have done wrong over the last few years and him telling you how things should have been done, you wish you had known him few years ago. it would have made life a lot easier. this is why i keep saying to others to read what he is writing multiple times and think about your mistakes and i am sure a light will go on.Your comment is absurdly wrong and I had to reply -
We've hired @splishsplash consulting and link building services over a year ago, not because he tried to 'sell' us his packages/knowledge, but the OPPOSITE is the truth:
He was extremely communicative, patient and helpful with us, answering ALL of our questions (which were sent on private) and he guided us (completely for FREE) about website silo and the proper infrastructure our site really needed back then.
During the whole time and message correspondence he didn't try for a single time to upsell or to ask for money, NOTHING. Which in fact was suspicious because who's working for free these days...?
Anyway, we started to follow his activity and posting on BHW, and very quickly realized how his SEO knowledge is priceless, and I'm not exaggerating.
Then after we were completely certain he knows his shit, we started to implement his suggestions (which again, we got for $0), and we INSTANTLY saw a positive ranking boost in one of our properties.
And what happened next? WE reached @splishsplash asking to hire him. Thank god he said yes (that's one of our properties after the spoken algorithm update, 100%~ increase in impressions thanks to @splishsplash) -
View attachment 154492
I read some other bad attitude comments about this purely honest and clever guy, and it finally hit me - people are extremely ungrateful...
I never saw anyone of BHW helping that much and providing THAT MUCH value and insights about SEO or anything else, for 100% free. NEVER.
Even if you don't agree with his points, which is absolutely fine of course, this guy doesn't deserve any of the backlash posted here.
Of course, he's not a saint or something, but claiming that his SEO insights/value are worthless and all he's doing is upselling people, is unbelievably stupid, arrogant and shameful.
Don't take my words for granted, check his posting activity and judge yourself.
P.S
Here's another property @splishsplash helped us with: no traffic increase, but the traffic is steady even after the recent update (note that during weekends traffic always drops) -
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may i know the theme that you are using and any plugins that got you that kind of speed!?!?!?!?!??!!?
i checked multiple different niches and even my pages.... could not find any correlation in this update and speed. even in my own website, a page is ranked #1, with so so speed and another page is not #1 and it has very good speed.
i noticed the same thing starting 16 hours ago.
someone made a comment that it seems that google is awarding sites that get to the point of answering user intention with normal amount of text and not with writing a novel. see if you see such correlation on your side in your niche. also investigate to see if your H tags do carry questions users ask for. for example, do you have questions like "what is xyz", "what are the benefits of XYZ", "how do you use xyz", etc. stated in your H tags. look into this and see if you see such correlation. on my side, i have seen this correlation.
Daisy Deals
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- Oct 8, 2018
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Huge drop today 
DeadJoe
Elite Member
- May 18, 2014
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I reached out to a bunch of people and one of them was @splishsplash, before I started working on my site, he was super cool about it, gave me some monetization ideas, told me about his experiences building websites and what I'd need to move forward (FYI: I used to build back in the day with pure spam). His guide on SILOing is also rock solid, goes into detail.
I mean, it's okay to disagree. But he ain't upselling! I actually asked him if he could find me a specific type of domain that I was looking for and he straight up told me he had no time but pointed me towards other sellers whom he is not affiliated with. He also looked at a couple domains that I was interested in at that point, all of this for free. Never told me to buy any PBN links in the future or anything at all.
Let's not fuck people over, give credit where it is due.
Same here, one of my site has dropped from 3.5k daily views down to 1.5k views.
Daisy Deals
Regular Member
- Oct 8, 2018
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@splishsplash Tom is one of the best and honest guy on this forum who has a deep knowledge of SEO. He has given me a lots of advice for my affiliate websites for FREE by spending his precious time (I know he is very busy).
No seller has ever given me advice, they all just try to sell except for Tom.
If you think he tries to sell, then you're one delusional guy because its the opposite.
He has the best PBN network and he will say NO to your face if your spammed website doesn't belong to his network.
No seller has ever given me advice, they all just try to sell except for Tom.
If you think he tries to sell, then you're one delusional guy because its the opposite.
He has the best PBN network and he will say NO to your face if your spammed website doesn't belong to his network.
