Medium Google Organic Traffic Takes A Beating

bahus · Jan 6, 2020

https://www.seroundtable.com/medium-google-traffic-loss-28788.html

So link building on Medium may not be as effective as it used to be. Personally I'd avoid it. Maybe it has something to do with rank loss people have reported in 'Sudden Ranked Drop? Google Algo Update?'
https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/sudden-ranked-drop-google-algo-update.1186013/
It would be interesting to know if they have Medium links.

hatfromthewilds · Jan 6, 2020

looks like either major technical issue (could be related to onpage seo) or google shadowbanned them manually

Bajanman · Jan 6, 2020

Could you PLEASE explain shadow banning?
Also. what is MEDIUM?

hatfromthewilds · Jan 6, 2020

Bajanman said:
Could you PLEASE explain shadow banning?
Also. what is MEDIUM?

honestly it looks like technical, programming and onpage team on medium is bad. i managed to sneak do-follow links there as far as i remember, and they indexed. i wouldnt be so surprised if site tanked due to some simple technical issue in code caused by incompetent workers

Bajanman · Jan 6, 2020

ok, but what exactly is MEDIUM?

Luco · Jan 6, 2020

Bajanman said:
ok, but what exactly is MEDIUM?

https://www.bing.com/search?q=medium&qs=n&form=QBLH&sp=-1&pq=medium&sc=8-6&sk=&cvid=EBDDE44CC74441B786238286452877E1
use your search engine man!

wanessmark · Jan 6, 2020

bahus said:
https://www.seroundtable.com/medium-google-traffic-loss-28788.html

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So link building on Medium may not be as effective as it used to be. Personally I'd avoid it. Maybe it has something to do with rank loss people have reported in 'Sudden Ranked Drop? Google Algo Update?'
https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/sudden-ranked-drop-google-algo-update.1186013/
It would be interesting to know if they have Medium links.

I don't thing Medium would hurt your SEO....I would say its some of their sort of issue....give it some time

rafark · Jan 6, 2020

Medium got hit by Google in its latest update, now that's interesting. Medium has a super strong domain, wonder what was the cause....

hatfromthewilds · Jan 6, 2020

rafark said:
Medium got hit by Google in its latest update, now that's interesting. Medium has a super strong domain, wonder what was the cause....

Medium had natural backlink profile. I dont think they shouldve be hit by g update

bahus · Jan 6, 2020

rafark said:
Medium got hit by Google in its latest update, now that's interesting. Medium has a super strong domain, wonder what was the cause....

That's what I think, the hit lines ups perfectly with the latest google updates, moreover, it also correlates with Medium link policy change and how difficult they make now to post content, especially for new accounts. There are a couple of posts here from people being banned, not able to post and looking for an alternative.

bahus · Jan 6, 2020

hatfromthewilds said:
Medium had natural backlink profile. I dont think they shouldve be hit by g update

It's not about link profile, it's about how it was used/abused for link building.

hatfromthewilds · Jan 6, 2020

bahus said:
It's not about link profile, it's about how it was used/abused for link building.

But how could google alghorytmically tell medium was doing that? Without manual intervention?

bahus · Jan 7, 2020

hatfromthewilds said:
But how could google alghorytmically tell medium was doing that? Without manual intervention?

Don't underestimate Google

It's not what medium was doing, it's what people were doing to medium

They were ranking for ridiculous keywords like 'hacking or hacked or game hacks' just to give you a few examples, not because of relevance but the domain authority, they were ranking for hundreds if not more keywords that the domain had nothing to do with the keywords itself. Besides that it at one point it became too popular among SEOs if you want to rank, place a link on medium. When everyone is talking about that sooner or later it had to come to google's attention. We don't know and probably never will if it was a manual or algorithmic penalty, the fact is if something becomes too popular like just place a link(s) on the medium it's a matter of time before you see a fallout. The same happened to 301s. At one point everyone was talking about them like the perfect solution to ranking high. They are still effective but not as easy to do as they were before.

fc-dh · Jan 7, 2020

Bajanman said:
ok, but what exactly is MEDIUM?

Jesus Christ, don't you have Google?

Bajanman · Jan 7, 2020

Ok, so I'm gonna assume that you are all referring to the site medium.com. I'm totally new to linkbuilding and for others here that are completely unaware of the site and how it can help with our link building efforts, I was simply hoping for some info. Thx anyways.

710fla · Jan 8, 2020

Looks like it's time to move on to another parasite

Mr Positive · Jan 8, 2020

It’ll recover in time and no it won’t hurt your seo to own medium link

t2van · Jan 8, 2020

rafark said:
Medium got hit by Google in its latest update, now that's interesting. Medium has a super strong domain, wonder what was the cause....

The cheque they sent to google bounced

Waqas Zaka · Jan 8, 2020

Let's see when I will get hit from Google.

crissdinesh · Jan 8, 2020

Bajanman said:
ok, but what exactly is MEDIUM?

Low, Medium, & High

In the mid, you can find it. OK

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