Google update again?!
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I Noticed some fluctuations on Thursday 22 November noon. And I have to say since Friday I am 50% up in organic traffic to my pre-August SERPs and much better. Got hammered down by the medic update and it feels indeed like a recovery.
I see nowhere else talking about it. We 've made a ton of changes since August both technical and quality (EAT). Could this be a reward update only for few? Did you make any changes the past months?
I see nowhere else talking about it. We 've made a ton of changes since August both technical and quality (EAT). Could this be a reward update only for few? Did you make any changes the past months?
Yah I left 3 websites since the Aug update. All white hat (guest posts, edits, etc.)
1st site has 100 links.
2nd site has 300
3rd site has 300
No reversal. on any of them. 2 of the sites are slowly gaining back keywords but nothing crazy. All of them lost around 40% in traffic and keyword on Ahrefs. All sites are in the same nitch as well.
To truly test a reversal you have to leave the sites AS IS and do nothing. Which is what I did for these 3 sites since Aug 1st.
Will see if they reverse it or not, but so far its been 4 months and no sign of reversal, I will give another 3-4 months since Google is slow and they def. don't want to admit they F* up.
It must be really bad since updates are going on every other week or so. So they still trying to fix what they messed up on or do some tweaks.
1st site has 100 links.
2nd site has 300
3rd site has 300
No reversal. on any of them. 2 of the sites are slowly gaining back keywords but nothing crazy. All of them lost around 40% in traffic and keyword on Ahrefs. All sites are in the same nitch as well.
To truly test a reversal you have to leave the sites AS IS and do nothing. Which is what I did for these 3 sites since Aug 1st.
Will see if they reverse it or not, but so far its been 4 months and no sign of reversal, I will give another 3-4 months since Google is slow and they def. don't want to admit they F* up.
It must be really bad since updates are going on every other week or so. So they still trying to fix what they messed up on or do some tweaks.
I don't see any change in my results. Maybe it's gonna take a little more time.
PixelMathis
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They are not able to detect all updates.
My search engine traffic is x5 since Friday. That's even better than before August. I have made many changes to the site. It must be a kind of penalty that has been lifted. I hope it will last like this. Mobile first indexing is not yet active on the site.
howardriddle
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What kind of changes did you make?
- I removed an off-canvas menu.
- I removed an adblocker detector script
- I removed the word "promoted" on my frontpage
- I removed some grammatical mistakes in site descriptions
- I added breadcrumbs
- ...
Codliver
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I haven't paid attention to this update since it hit; reading over the thread it seems there isn't much more insight.
Has anyone considered it just being an anchor text update masquerading as a YMYL/EAT thing... but focused on YMYL-type sites?
Or it's Google going political as we know they are, and favoring Western/Academic/Corporate sites?
Has anyone considered it just being an anchor text update masquerading as a YMYL/EAT thing... but focused on YMYL-type sites?
Or it's Google going political as we know they are, and favoring Western/Academic/Corporate sites?
- Healthline is a bigger company.
- Dr. Axe is a single doctor who is into natural and alternative medicine.
- Diet doctor is a single doctor on the surface; site is run by a group of Swedish people in various fields not very related to nutrition.
fulgensaurio
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Yeah this looks health related to me
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I think it's the anchor text update as all of my keywords over a certain percentage were hit. The keywords on a low % were left alone.
Zbigniew
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No recovery for me either.
I am skeptical to anyone saying they fully recovered from the medic update. The ones I've seen that were actually hit haven't been recovered at all. I am yet to see one.
Now I am talking about the ones that got hit for real in August. But if someone actually got up after it, all the best to you!
I am skeptical to anyone saying they fully recovered from the medic update. The ones I've seen that were actually hit haven't been recovered at all. I am yet to see one.
Now I am talking about the ones that got hit for real in August. But if someone actually got up after it, all the best to you!
The Curator
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No recoveries yet - just adding more traffic sources and creating great content until G gets its shit together...
escapesouth
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Same here, no recoveries yet, most of my sites took a big hit except for one that is in a very small and unique niche. I hope something happens soon, if not I'm gonna have to start looking for a job until this gets straightened out (if it ever does).
PixelMathis
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I don't think there will be a rollback. There are sites that have made huge gains though and new sites were able to dodge this update. According to me, relevancy and mobile speed is a huge factor in the new algorithm.
escapesouth
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I can maybe see relevancy but competitors who are ranking page 1 have really crappy load speeds which some of them are taking 5-10 seconds to load and score less than 50% on googles mobile speed test.
