Google releases March 2023 broad core update

What a beautiful Update, being outranked by crappy websites with amazon-widget as main content is a great experience. I hope this will change soon because I tanked 30% of the traffic overnight. What a joke.
 
Great update. Traffic dropped by 50% yesterday. Today some keywords are up, but the drop is still 30%....
 
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What are the major Optimization need to be done for the website to avoid website dip?
 
I'll do what I always do, wait for everything to calm down.
 
An article that I had in position 1 with a lot of writing and quality went to 4 winning me Martha Stewart only by authority... her article has 2 photos and few words .... (gardening niche).
 
my ranking shot up from yesterday. for tech related site, it went from 2nd page to 1st page.
but for ecommerce site, it went from page 2 to page 4.
 
For now, i see growth on all my blogs (but a new blog just released was wiped), but it is still too early possible to know if I will pass this time or not :) When Google updates, I'm on day 6/7 from the update released to see the results.
 
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For now, i see growth on all my blogs (but a new blog just released was wiped), but it is still too early possible to know if I will pass this time or not :) When Google updates, I'm on day 6/7 from the update released to see the result
What are your conclusions? Aged domain with high DR clean links profile?
 
The 2023 update doesn't have anything special as far as I see. Its going to be same but there is a point they mentioned which shows that the website that were hit in a negative way or penalized are going to have another chance. Well, lets wait out for the whole launch before making a judgement here. But why does it matter at all right? Well it does in my view for all the SEO freelancers, specialist, experts and similar roles people who are currently not having any project or gig in these days like me. So, stay updated because if I see in depth clients are going to make huge demands for the latest update as they will be only going to be aware of the hype but not details so then that will be our chance to grab them before anyone does. Never waste your time.
 
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What are your conclusions? Aged domain with high DR clean links profile?
I can't suggest much because i didn't use any of these tips on my old blogs ... but most of them are 2+ years old but got destroyed by Google with almost every update till now ...
With my new blog (3 weeks old) that was wiped by Google, penalized, or added to Sandbox, I believe my mistake was I allowed the WordPress Tags pages to be indexed by Google.
It is weird how Google did, then to indexed my posts on the first few days; he just kept indexing my Tags pages.
Tags pages = Thin content, and I have almost the same number of the Tags pages and Posts pages
I'm not sure if this was the real reason, but I'm waiting anyway to see the answer from Google Adsense because I submitted the new blog there and hope like this I can know the real reason if the Blog is not accepted.
We are learning from our mistakes :)
 
Reading around I see a pattern, I might be totally wrong but let's check it with you guys:

Who lost ranking with the last 2 updates regained in traffic with this one.

The opposite happened to people like me who benefited from the last 2 updates (now I tanked 40%)

Am I dreaming?
 
I can't suggest much because i didn't use any of these tips on my old blogs ... but most of them are 2+ years old but got destroyed by Google with almost every update till now ...
With my new blog (3 weeks old) that was wiped by Google, penalized, or added to Sandbox, I believe my mistake was I allowed the WordPress Tags pages to be indexed by Google.
It is weird how Google did, then to indexed my posts on the first few days; he just kept indexing my Tags pages.
Tags pages = Thin content, and I have almost the same number of the Tags pages and Posts pages
I'm not sure if this was the real reason, but I'm waiting anyway to see the answer from Google Adsense because I submitted the new blog there and hope like this I can know the real reason if the Blog is not accepted.
We are learning from our mistakes :)
My websites got crushesh because they were product reviews websites. I think yours were the same.
 
My websites got crushesh because they were product reviews websites. I think yours were the same.
I dont have product reviews, but yes, the new blog was fully penalized by Google.
I'm expecting the issue was come from allowing tags pages to be indexed by Google; I will try a new blog with the same idea but an old domain and see the results in a few weeks. But for now, the new blog is wiped on any search.
domain com = don't see the blog anymore
domain.com = blog first rank
site:domain.com = showing 140 pages indexed (small blog); the issue is a lot of these pages are tags/categories etc, and only 43 are posts.
I made some small changes hope the blog will be okay in future like no-index to tags page etc

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I dont have product reviews, but yes, the new blog was fully penalized by Google.
I'm expecting the issue was come from allowing tags pages to be indexed by Google; I will try a new blog with the same idea but an old domain and see the results in a few weeks. But for now, the new blog is wiped on any search.
domain com = don't see the blog anymore
domain.com = blog first rank
site:domain.com = showing 140 pages indexed (small blog); the issue is a lot of these pages are tags/categories etc, and only 43 are posts.
I made some small changes hope the blog will be okay in future like no-index to tags page etc

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What snippets do you use?
 
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