Latest Google Core Update fck my site

All fresh websites got indexed and started to get impression on good keyword which is very surprising for websites 1.5 months old but still is early to say anything definitive

I'm doing fine. My sites are the red line.

Dark Hat 007 said:

Didn't work out. So what do I do?

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What didn't work out?

Not so easy to predict, Usually google dance is common when we had an update hope rankings will be back soon to the best updated sites!

Its really very bad for me.

@splishsplash know my site. I have one pbn link from you but do not share a niche or site, please.
May update
Traffic drop- 60-70% I lost almost all rich and featured snippets, images that will be next to the site when you google on phone and lost a lot of long tails keywords.
Posts that had featured snippets drop on page 2.
Competitors didn't lose rich snippets.

December update
My traffic increased by 70-80% got back rich snippets, got few featured snippets back and images are now showing.
A lot of new long tails keywords are showing up.
My competitors lost all rich snippets.

All my competitors including me are using black hat link building. Almost all links are manually created. (PBN, Nice edits, guest posts, forum links, 301 redirects, web2.0 etc.) On top of that, me and competitors have similar titles and content. It is madness and I have some strange feeling that my site has had invisible penalties since May 4.

kava said:

@splishsplash know my site. I have one pbn link from you but do not share a niche or site, please.
May update
Traffic drop- 60-70% I lost almost all rich and featured snippets, images that will be next to the site when you google on phone and lost a lot of long tails keywords.
Posts that had featured snippets drop on page 2.
Competitors didn't lose rich snippets.

December update
My traffic increased by 70-80% got back rich snippets, got few featured snippets back and images are now showing.
A lot of new long tails keywords are showing up.
My competitors lost all rich snippets.

All my competitors including me are using black hat link building. Almost all links are manually created. (PBN, Nice edits, guest posts, forum links, 301 redirects, web2.0 etc.) On top of that, me and competitors have similar titles and content. It is madness and I have some strange feeling that my site has had invisible penalties since May 4.

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Nice, I'm glad you've benefited from the recent update.

You definitely don't have a penalty. None of these recent google updates are penalizing sites and they have zero to do with whitehat, blackhat or greyhat. They're all completely related to the machine learning/user intent.

For example, the only difference in your site in may to june was 150 page 1's dropped to 135 page 1's and 30 top 3's to 15 top 3's. That's definitely NOT any sort of penalty.

Just dropping from position 1-2's, and featured snippets, down to 4-6's for 10-15 of your best keywords will DEVASTATE a site. However, penalties are more like you just drop off the board down to page 7, 8, 9 or worse on all your pages, and all that's left is some vol 30's.

It's just the difference between "This site is really relevant for these keywords" to "This site is pretty relevant, but there's 2-3 more we prefer". That's all it is with these updates. People are just dropping off a little, but in terms of traffic it can be huge.

Bless. I am doing to die now.