Google releasing a large update today

It's unbelievable what Google did with this update. In my niche, some keywords first page is dominated by Quora, Youtube videos, Reddit (sometimes there are 2 Reddit links on the first page, these are pages with 30-40 words questions). And what's even more funny friend show me in another niche #1 for a specific keyword is 404 Page and Pinterest links. Some of my keywords are dancing jump from #8-9 to #4-5 but only for hours then they drop again and still there is no traffic like it used to be as all featured snippets are lost, I think google gives featured snippets only to strongest domains now.
 
It's unbelievable what Google did with this update. In my niche, some keywords first page is dominated by Quora, Youtube videos, Reddit (sometimes there are 2 Reddit links on the first page, these are pages with 30-40 words questions). And what's even more funny friend show me in another niche #1 for a specific keyword is 404 Page and Pinterest links. Some of my keywords are dancing jump from #8-9 to #4-5 but only for hours then they drop again and still there is no traffic like it used to be as all featured snippets are lost, I think google gives featured snippets only to strongest domains now.
Hey luc1fer

I'm facing similar issues. My site lost 75% of the traffic and all my primary keywords are gone.

I was ranking #1-#5 for whole year and my site disappeared from the SERP in a day.

Talking about the sites that are ranking, all of them have irrelevant content and are either social media links or just some random news articles (one of my keyword faced this).

Hope we'll get past this and regain our rankings.
 
Idk about this whole update. I've done a quick research on the biggest German tech and multimedia magazines (Chip.de, Computerbase.de, giga.de, pcgameshardware.de, pcwelt.de,..) and everyone massively lost rankings (and estimated traffic according to ahrefs) since 20th May.
 
Serps are totally useless at the min. I was looking for a WP plugin and the results were horrendous
 
Idk about this whole update. I've done a quick research on the biggest German tech and multimedia magazines (Chip.de, Computerbase.de, giga.de, pcgameshardware.de, pcwelt.de,..) and everyone massively lost rankings (and estimated traffic according to ahrefs) since 20th May.

It's unbelievable how many websites with big authority and expertise lost ranking. So much for google's EAT crap.
 
I would suggest to take pagespeed serious from now on. I have 4k URLS that are marked as poor performance. (LCP issue: longer than 4s (mobile)). It's a clear signal for google if your website is useful or not.

Here is what https://web.dev/lcp/ is saying: "Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is an important, user-centric metric for measuring perceived load speed because it marks the point in the page load timeline when the page's main content has likely loaded—a fast LCP helps reassure the user that the page is useful."

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Fixed mine, started validation, hope for the best.
 
I would suggest to take pagespeed serious from now on. I have 4k URLS that are marked as poor performance. (LCP issue: longer than 4s (mobile)). It's a clear signal for google if your website is useful or not.

Here is what https://web.dev/lcp/ is saying: "Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is an important, user-centric metric for measuring perceived load speed because it marks the point in the page load timeline when the page's main content has likely loaded—a fast LCP helps reassure the user that the page is useful."

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Fixed mine, started validation, hope for the best.

How did you fix it?
 
@WivernFX

Computerbase lost 60-70% of the traffic from these sites.

https://www.computerbase.de/downloads/winrar
https://www.computerbase.de/downloads/cleaner.
https://www.computerbase.de/downloads/***
....

For example for this keyword "WinRAR" Before they were on pos 3 now they dropped to position 5
According to Aherfs, this caused 19281.47, losses in traffic.

But which website ranks now on pos 3?
winrar.com

They said that they won't show duplicate results from the same website. So for 'winrar' this is what I see:
rarlab take number 1 and 2
win-rar number 3 and 4

It's worth noting that win.rar is the official publisher for RARLAB products so basically the same company.
Number 5 is Wikipedia and Wikipedia also shows on knowledge pannel.

The results are for North America, don't know if it's the same for google.de
 
yes, that is true but it has nothing to do with this update.
The same websites already ranked at the end of 2019
 
So im starting to see some improvement now in the last few days. I originally lost ~70% of my traffic. My site is only 7 months old but I was on track to get 10k traffic this month until this shit happened.

I had no black hat methods whatsoever, 100% whitehat, yet here we are. People ranking above me have a bunch of spammy Chinese backlinks to their site, it's ridiculous.

Anyways... I bought a new Wordpress template that had no javascript/jquery so it was barebones. I spent a day or two redesigning my site to make it look nice and really went hard on optimizing site loading speed.

My site now gets 100% and 99% on GTMetrix, and 90%+ on lighthouse for desktop and mobile.

I also bought some backlinks this month.

I'm not sure if it's anything I changed that's had an effect or if its just random, but my site traffic is now only around -30% today and has steadily increased all this week. Something to note though, my SERPS has gone way down, yet my CTR has increased. I think this is because people are going on to page 2,3,4+ to find what they're looking for. Some keywords I was ranking number 1 for, are now down on page 2 or 3 while articles unrelated to that query are ranked higher. Has anyone had a similar experience?

Either way, I think Google fucked up the algorithm completely, and I'm praying another update comes soon to fix this.
 
I would suggest to take pagespeed serious from now on. I have 4k URLS that are marked as poor performance. (LCP issue: longer than 4s (mobile)). It's a clear signal for google if your website is useful or not.

Here is what https://web.dev/lcp/ is saying: "Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is an important, user-centric metric for measuring perceived load speed because it marks the point in the page load timeline when the page's main content has likely loaded—a fast LCP helps reassure the user that the page is useful."

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Fixed mine, started validation, hope for the best.

I tried that with my main website and cut pagespeed in half and left it there for a week, it did squat. In fact, I continued to slide down. I don't think pagespeed is used as a ranking factor for this update. Some websites that are now ranking above me actually have bad pagespeed scores.
 
have you people started marking on-page or off-page changes???
 
I tried that with my main website and cut pagespeed in half and left it there for a week, it did squat. In fact, I continued to slide down. I don't think pagespeed is used as a ranking factor for this update. Some websites that are now ranking above me actually have bad pagespeed scores.

Finally, somebody I agree with. I, personally, think that page speed as a ranking factor is grossly exaggerated.
I personally did 2 "big" changes about 6 months and the results were barely noticeable
1. Improved my site speed
2. Switched to https

But... I did these changes for the users as well (not just for seo like building links) and even though I gained barely anything in google, I believe my visitors got a better UX as the site loads faster and they feel safer online because of https.
 
I said it earlier, I say it again!!
There is nothing to do, no magical formula or anything yet. Google messed up! Lets the serp calm down, let Google fix it mistakes.
Meanwhile, do what you were doing before. The only benefit this update had, was that actually everyone start taking care of their websites, cleaned shitty backlinks, made sites faster, fixed content.......all to find out, it doesn't matter right now....its still Google that messed up.
 
I tried that with my main website and cut pagespeed in half and left it there for a week, it did squat. In fact, I continued to slide down. I don't think pagespeed is used as a ranking factor for this update. Some websites that are now ranking above me actually have bad pagespeed scores.

Have a read here: https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2020/05/evaluating-page-experience.html

"While all of the components of page experience are important, we will prioritize pages with the best information overall, even if some aspects of page experience are subpar. A good page experience doesn’t override having great, relevant content. However, in cases where there are multiple pages that have similar content, page experience becomes much more important for visibility in Search."

Good content & backlinks is still more important, however if you're in a niche where websites have similar content, better page expierience wins for sure. Why would google give better spot for slowly performing website that has similar content over the same content with great page performance?

Fast website = Win in SEO and UX. Simple as that.
 
I'm still down to about 40% or less (lost 60%).

Yesterday morning, I got all excited for about all of 30 seconds, thinking I had most of my guests back... Turned out to be Ahref bots lol.

It was a happy 30 seconds though. So now I know how the wife feels.
 
I said it earlier, I say it again!!
There is nothing to do, no magical formula or anything yet. Google messed up! Lets the serp calm down, let Google fix it mistakes.
Meanwhile, do what you were doing before. The only benefit this update had, was that actually everyone start taking care of their websites, cleaned shitty backlinks, made sites faster, fixed content.......all to find out, it doesn't matter right now....its still Google that messed up.

Have to agreed with you , I refresh back last year till now the site I do is one year ++ start at end of 2018 , now is 2020 , this year end should be just 2 years old.

I recall fellow bros here mention google update , always will have some site owners gain it , some lose it.

i recall back the past few google updates, I roughly under the " average range " organic traffic , direct traffic , others still consider ok , as per normal

but this update i really get hit, organic traffic been hit , last week I see " seem " like slowly recover , this week is back to crap , just check my organic traffic from only 300++ per day now just 89 ,or 112 like that

top 10 lose another 3 keywords , don't know go which position havent check or so .

I don't want to do anything just carry one what i do usually . Put it simple Google is the boss, they can play around etc , how great your SEO score, etc , they want to screw around you, just suck thumb. sadly
 
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