Google September 2023 Update - 50% Traffic lose

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ayberk

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• Sep 19, 2023

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Today my traffic dropped 50%. Especially when almost all of our image traffic is gone and replaced by AI-generated nonsense.

 

Arshi110

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• #2

You should keep off from using auto-generated AI featured images.

 

dami3n

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ayberk said:

Today my traffic dropped 50%. Especially when almost all of our image traffic is gone and replaced by AI-generated nonsense.

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I have noticed the same with a ton of news articles - all bring replace by low quality AI junk. Google just isn't keeping up with banning this rubbish.

Look I don't mind AI content when done correctly but some of it is literally worse than the old content spinners...

 

IM Dude

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Wow. And I was having the impression that google has started going after ai content.

 

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ayberk

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I never use AI-images. This situation is very sad and worrying.

 

lewwy789

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Some of those ai images are pretty impressive though.

 

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ayberk

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The drop continues. The rankings of nearly 1000 articles, all original, have changed significantly. It was a site for exactly 1 year. I hope this fluctuation is temporary.

 

yalang

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You will need to pay special attention to optimizing your pictures. You need to look out for copyright-free images which are not AI- managed.

That's the only way you can stay ahead of the curve.