October 2022 spam Update

giftedstan

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Good day fellow BHW members, well, I just want to post my short findings. During the October update that saw the end of most PAA websites, I was affected, I have several websites that were affected, so as always, I came here to complain then I got an awesome reply and audit of one of my website from @SirLouen after which he droped a wonderful thread which I would recommend y'all read

https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/guide-understanding-the-key-concepts-for-rep-and-tea.1447258/


I took what he said seriously, removed most of the misleading ads, popunder and fake buttons off most of my sites, then took an extra step and bought a new domain for each of the sites and did a 301 redirect, since most of my sites are scraped contents, I wrote unique contents in the post footer below where I add the scraped contents to reduce content plagiarism, changed structure of new URLs and removed most of my spammy Backlinks.

After the above has been done, I had to start building new quality backlinks (not really successful here) I made sure to optimise my category pages very well, as they contain my main keywords.

with these done, I have recently noticed a surge in traffic, I don't know if it would be permanent, but for in this week alone, I've started having more daily traffic than I do have previously.

These are not 100% guaranteed, they are just something I tested and found out that it works.


Happy Experimenting
 
Yes, scraped contents on a page make up about 30% of text content on that page
Tho, it's important to note that these recent traffic changes are on websites that I updated immediately after that thread from SirLouen, the new ones I recently updated has not yet started showing improvement
 
Tho, it's important to note that these recent traffic changes are on websites that I updated immediately after that thread from SirLouen, the new ones I recently updated has not yet started showing improvement
So basically you are ranking again with the same projects on new domains, after 301 the old affected ones to these new domain, correct?
 
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Have you started site move in GSC to the new domain or just plain 301?
Just plain 301 with cloudflare page rules, the old domains are still showing some daily traffic on GSC but it's a trickle, like 1k-2k daily for most of the sites
 
Scraped content seems to be dangerous... maybe just for me
Most of my the sites that I am referring to are Download sites, like Udemy videos free download sites, Templates, themes, movies, games etc, those contents are usually scrapped from multitude of sites, so I'm not referring to scrapping of informative blogs or tutorials etc
 
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