"HACK & CHEAT"... Google Update... Did you get hit?!

tiiberius · Mar 3, 2018

There is seems be a high amount of "hack" & "cheats" sites getting hit in the recent days.

These website are usually monetized by so called Content Lockers.

What is getting straight up hammered is sniper homepages. Inner pages seems to be doing better.

What's interesting is that these sites do not just drop in rankings... they get straight up de-indexed.

Did you get hit?

Share your experience / take on this below.

Thank you.

Bread · Mar 3, 2018

Mine appears to be losing keywords everyday according to Ahrefs. Wasn't even on Page 1

engaged34 · Mar 3, 2018

Nope.

Mebn · Mar 3, 2018

Yup, Google killed one of my websites(unfortunately the one with the biggest potential).

Leith · Mar 3, 2018

The CPA hack niche has always been like that for a few years now. It's a churn/burn niche so deindexes are common.

dicekid · Mar 3, 2018

i got hit and suffering 3 casualties so far

Karl Singh · Mar 3, 2018

I got hit badly

- Need to start again...

ambushiv11 · Mar 3, 2018

Leith said:
The CPA hack niche has always been like that for a few years now. It's a churn/burn niche so deindexes are common.

I'm on this forum from 2013 but I've never seen so many people getting hit by "Pure spam" penalties and a clean clash royale google search page

My opinion is that Google started something/changed something.

tiiberius · Mar 3, 2018

Leith said:
The CPA hack niche has always been like that for a few years now. It's a churn/burn niche so deindexes are common.

Yes, but I never saw it on such a large scale.

ambushiv11 said:
I'm on this forum from 2013 but I've never seen so many people getting hit by "Pure spam" penalties and a clean clash royale google search page My opinion is that Google started something/changed something.

I agree.

formen · Mar 3, 2018

Leith said:
The CPA hack niche has always been like that for a few years now. It's a churn/burn niche so deindexes are common.

Is it ok to start a new site like this??

Leith · Mar 3, 2018

ambushiv11 said:
I'm on this forum from 2013 but I've never seen so many people getting hit by "Pure spam" penalties and a clean clash royale google search page My opinion is that Google started something/changed something.

I've been #1 for CR in the past.. this isn't "new". I've also been in the hack niche for a long time now.

I guess every few months they clean things up but this has been going on for years. The reason you're seeing more and more people complain about it is because of all the new members jumping on the CPA scene. A few years ago it was less competitive so you wouldn't get as many complaints as you do now. Nowadays everyone seems to be doing hack sites. So it only makes sense that Google cracks down it on even more than they did previously.

There was a huge update affecting CPA sites (hack sites in particular) in 2015 and 2016. Very big updates that saw a lot of big players get wiped out. That's the game you play when doing hack sites

uncutu · Mar 3, 2018

formen said:
Is it ok to start a new site like this??

if you are okay with the risk (loss of google rankings) it is ok.
if you have a traffic source that isn't google then nothing to worry about.

Leith · Mar 3, 2018

formen said:
Is it ok to start a new site like this??

You have no other option than starting again. Don't bother submitting reconsider requests for hack sites.

MisterF · Mar 3, 2018

formen said:
Is it ok to start a new site like this??

Do you mean as a new niche for you, or have you had a site hit and want to do another site?

fakeshoes · Mar 3, 2018

Got hit also, went from 400 daily visitors to 15-20 (Still I don't know from where are they coming)

bojanpeic · Mar 3, 2018

I just started mine few weeks ago. The thing is I'm using YouTube as my traffic source, so I guess I shouldn't get hit by these changes?

formen · Mar 3, 2018

MisterF said:
Do you mean as a new niche for you, or have you had a site hit and want to do another site?

I mean just build another site with the similar niche。 I know this sounds clumsy because the risk of been hit again is high, but if i only familiar with this niche, easy to create the similar content of this niche?

MisterF · Mar 3, 2018

formen said:
I mean just build another site with the similar niche。 I know this sounds clumsy because the risk of been hit again is high, but if i only familiar with this niche, easy to create the similar content of this niche?

Yeah, if you're aware of the risk etc, know the topic then go for it.

nghiadd · Mar 3, 2018

same to me, I've got hit today

lidorx3 · Mar 3, 2018

weirdly got some big serps changes from page 1 to page 3 for all my sites and keywords..I hope that it's only an update and a dance otherwise I got fucked up

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