Sudden Ranked Drop? Google Algo Update?

He just said its not a manual penalty.

https://twitter.com/JohnMu/status/1219557678965579776

I don't think he knows whats going on as well. Let alone the fact that he actually had no idea what happened on 17th December just proves this.

Suddenly on 17th December Google started to re-evaluate our websites and the index went to shit...COOL STORY BRO...

EDIT: The thread on Twitter, so many german websites. I had this index/traffic problem on so many of my german websites. Seems like Google.de got hit hard with this.
In my case google.de, google.it and also google.fr, so all googles got hit by this
 
https://twitter.com/JohnMu/status/1219560373852000256

He says that it might be "how the system sees your site now"...

Okay? What does that even mean? The system suddenly sees our sites as having no mobile friendly pages even though they were all mobile friendly the day before?
He clearly has no idea what he is talking about. He doesn't have an answer. Looks like they lost fucking control over the algorithm and crawler. "Its not a temporarily glitch" - no the search engine is completely broken
 
Weird question, but is everyone here from outside the United States? It seems like almost everyone talking about this is European with the occasional Indian.
 
If a website authority was just "reevaluated" logically we would see a normal keywords drop. Not this whole shit
The funny thing is what is ranking instead. For some of my keywords there are 15 years old websites ranking, Spun text Web 2.0 Tier 1 backlinks I made 3 years ago and some social bookmarks from Scoop.it and Pinterest are also ranking. If Google was reevaluating the niche/keyword and found those social bookmarks and web 2.0 better than my unique and original content than the crawler/algo is broken.
 
The funny thing is what is ranking instead. For some of my keywords there are 15 years old websites ranking, Spun text Web 2.0 Tier 1 backlinks I made 3 years ago and some social bookmarks from Scoop.it and Pinterest are also ranking. If Google was reevaluating the niche/keyword and found those social bookmarks and web 2.0 better than my unique and original content than the crawler/algo is broken.

Lots of web 2.0 ranking for my keywords too. Especially Pinterest.
 
Lol....his answer really pisses me off. There is NO reason a "re-evaluation" of our websites would make them jump from page 1 to ABSOLUTELY nowhere. I've been hit by algo penalty over the years, and I've already seen position drops. I have never complained about them. I checked my website, fixed issues, and waited for rankings to come back. Yet, the rankings were down a few positions, or a few pages.

Here, it did not just drop, it DISAPPEARED. And, above all, GSC showing strange things for mobile and not being able to see that our website is perfectly mobile friendly and adapted to users on mobile.

Pfff, for the first time in my SEO career, I have NO IDEA what to do. We tried to do the cleanest, best quality website, with high quality content, and yet, we get punched in the face. Seriously?
 
https://twitter.com/JohnMu/status/1219560373852000256

He says that it might be "how the system sees your site now"...

Okay? What does that even mean? The system suddenly sees our sites as having no mobile friendly pages even though they were all mobile friendly the day before?

Fixes something... Breaks 2000 other things hahaa. Maybe sites from 2000 are now the new "mobile friendly" sites. Though only one of my sites got hit which I think is the most optimized for mobile..

Maybe bing will get more traffic now?! Their search results seem so much more optimized and I can find information easier then ob google..
 
People on Twitter said that many threads in webmaster forum about this disappeared, is this true?
 
at the moment i really wanna break a leg that John Muller with a severe low-kick
 
Ohhhhh, and nice ! Now, only seeing 7 results on Google when typing "site:mysite.com" yeahhhh ! Getting better everyday ......
 
Ohhhhh, and nice ! Now, only seeing 7 results on Google when typing "site:mysite.com" yeahhhh ! Getting better everyday ......
I see correctly page indexed, if I type the command site I can find my pages, but my ranking is gone, no positions for all my kws
 
WTF is going on.
daily basis my index is being removed.. all of the sites and it seems that everyone experiencing the same issue.

We clearly need answer from Google tho, we can't just assume things, its a penalty or bug.. :|

I do not think its a bug, it's google that we're talking about. if they had some bugs, they would fix it ASAP and let us know, right ?
I mean.. why thooo why... :o
 
WTF is going on.
daily basis my index is being removed.. all of the sites and it seems that everyone experiencing the same issue.

We clearly need answer from Google tho, we can't just assume things, its a penalty or bug.. :|

I do not think its a bug, it's google that we're talking about. if they had some bugs, they would fix it ASAP and let us know, right ?
I mean.. why thooo why... :eek:
Last year, they had indexing problems during 1 month
 
Last year, they had indexing problems during 1 month

glad to know that, so probably, this is the bug.
because its impossible that ALMOST everyone experiecing the same issue.
That is f*cked up tho.. dam google :confused:

so all we can do now is wait, and then what.. :|
 
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