Has Google Completely Killed Health Related Blogs?

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I read the Google EAT guidelines when it came out and it didn't bother me much. They seemed related to serious finance and medical websites.

I read it again recently and from my understanding of the update, anyone blogging about those things, unless they are a doctor or something, are very unlikely to rank? Even not strictly medical articles like "why tomatoes make your sperm taste good" are unlikely to rank unless written by an expert?

Seems like that is the case. It makes sense from Google's perspective but they've now completely denied an entire gold mine of a niche to normal bloggers.


This is the update I'm talking about btw: https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/08/core-updates.html

It puts the fear inside me man.
 
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If people are wanting serious advice on health issues, then common sense should dictate they go to a recognised medical site, so in the UK it would be the NHS website.
Google are quite happy though to take money for paid ads from the non genuine sites, A case of double standards here, maybe?
 
nik2016 said:
is these will related to weight loss blogs as well?
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from my understanding, yes. Not strictly medical websites are hit hard by this update, very nearly killed them all.

MisterF said:
If people are wanting serious advice on health issues, then common sense should dictate they go to a recognised medical site, so in the UK it would be the NHS website.
Google are quite happy though to take money for paid ads from the non genuine sites, A case of double standards here, maybe?
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For serious medical/finance advice, it is understandable that Google doesn't allow crap to come up. But idk, home remedies or something now also require to be written by an expert by the looks of it.
 
FUCK! And I just started working on a fitness blog. I'm not a medical doctor or anything but I did go from being 300 lbs. and got down to 140 lbs., so I think that I'm very qualified to speak on the matter.
 
there are always ways to get around and continue doing what you doing regardless of how many google updates are spawn for your industry or your website. this type of algos are target towards thin content websites and really crappy eat score. they were thriving writing articles buzzfeed style titles and garbage content so google put an end to it, if they were really good at producing content or overall blog management, pretty easy to recover unless you're into really shady sub-niche.
 
Its not recommended anymore to start a YMYL niche if you have no huge money from 2019 now.
 
People saying this is a good thing are annoying. Google should not control the information that people consume to this extent. If someone is dumb enough to believe apple cider vinegar makes them skinny, live and let live. People should be educated enough to research and form opinions from reputable sources, and this doesn't stop at the health niche but Google will gradually restrict more and more niches until the only way out is through paid ads. And then they will start restricting that until the only way to pay to play is to be Amazon. Eventually, their goal is to only deal with big $$$$ and they don't give a fuck about normie webmasters.
 
Maybe you can make Google think your blog is ran by an expert. Put links to medical studies, mention reputed doctors, quote serious articles in your niche ,avoid certain spammy words, make a fake doctor signature ,etc
 
MisterF said:
If people are wanting serious advice on health issues, then common sense should dictate they go to a recognised medical site, so in the UK it would be the NHS website.
Google are quite happy though to take money for paid ads from the non genuine sites, A case of double standards here, maybe?
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Both yes and no. In terms of Google Ads they are fairly strict towards health and medical ads.
 
This is so bad. If its all written by doctors youll never know an alternative.

You wont know you can fight cancer without chemo and radiation.

Youll never know you dont have to get circumsised if you have HPV.

Youll never know because the doctor in real life wont give that to you, and then you go online and the doctors that wrote the content wont give it to you either. Theyll just lie to you to take your money and destroy you with unnecessary surgeries and youll never know...

This is bad.
 
Scorpion Ghost said:
This is so bad. If its all written by doctors youll never know an alternative.

You wont know you can fight cancer without chemo and radiation.

Youll never know you dont have to get circumsised if you have HPV.

Youll never know because the doctor in real life wont give that to you, and then you go online and the doctors that wrote the content wont give it to you either. Theyll just lie to you to take your money and destroy you with unnecessary surgeries and youll never know...

This is bad.
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Thats the real problem. For example I know some guys who are working for pharma companies in Germany, who are manipulating articles in Wikipedia to make alternatives look stupid.

We should never forget there is HUUUUUUUUUUGEEEE money in the medical niche, which also always with the pharma niche. Therefore I don't think this is just "Google being the good guy preventing the people from fake medic blogs"
 
Harlet said:
People saying this is a good thing are annoying. Google should not control the information that people consume to this extent. If someone is dumb enough to believe apple cider vinegar makes them skinny, live and let live. People should be educated enough to research and form opinions from reputable sources, and this doesn't stop at the health niche but Google will gradually restrict more and more niches until the only way out is through paid ads. And then they will start restricting that until the only way to pay to play is to be Amazon. Eventually, their goal is to only deal with big $$$$ and they don't give a fuck about normie webmasters.
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I hate Google's monopoly as much as the next guy. But what if that person who drank too much apple cider vinegar is your daughter? Or your mother? Or anyone close to you that is not living in your house? Apple cider vinegar is very acidic and can give complications if drank alone not to mention in an extended period of time. Being a non-savvy internet user is not a sin. And I'm guessing that majority of the population are not. Are you always gonna be around to provide your superior internet wisdom to your loved ones when they are reading that sort of stuff? Yeah, live and live, right? :eek:
 
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