Have you seen any business websites with blog with manual penalty / de-indexed after March 5 core update?

The update seems to have targeted pure blog websites, especially those who make money with ads / affiliate.

Are you aware of any regular business website that has a blog to drive traffic that got a manual penalty?

Asking to evaluate how risky it is for a business to have a blog these days. AI or not. Thanks!

Mine wasn't a blog website. It was comic reading website and it got hit too on 9th march. :')

alonelywriter said:

Mine wasn't a blog website. It was comic reading website and it got hit too on 9th march. :')

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Interesting. Was the main purpose of the website to get SEO traffic? I.e. does the business model of the website depended upon SEO traffic? Or, e.g., did you sell a subscription, and get traffic via fb ads or similar?

bananasubmarine said:

Interesting. Was the main purpose of the website to get SEO traffic? I.e. does the business model of the website depended upon SEO traffic? Or, e.g., did you sell a subscription, and get traffic via fb ads or similar?

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All Was SEO traffic. Nothing paid. No subscription sell. It was a hobby project.