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Reviews are vanishing off GBP listings at scale this month, and people are misdiagnosing it in both directions. Two separate things are happening at once: The bug/abuse wave: since around July 3, Google has confirmed they're investigating reviews disappearing and new reviews being paused on...

This is one of those questions where everyone has an opinion but almost nobody has run a controlled test on it. I've been experimenting with different velocity rates across a few client sites over the past year and wanted to share what I've seen. Not claiming this is definitive but the patterns...

Something I haven't seen discussed enough in link building threads is concentration risk from single marketplace buying. Everyone talks about anchor text diversity and niche relevance but almost nobody talks about what happens when a large chunk of your link profile comes from the same platform...

The loss of search traffic, especially in cases where it used to be stable, almost never has a single simple cause. In most situations, it is the result of systemic changes that site owners continue to evaluate through outdated SEO templates. If we exclude Google indexing issues, when pages are...

Hey everyone, I’ve been noticing a significant drop in my website’s traffic over the past few weeks, and I can’t figure out what’s causing it. My site was performing well, but now impressions and clicks are declining. I haven’t made any major changes recently, so I’m not sure if it’s an...

Your traffic will drop. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow. But if you’re mass-publishing AI content, Google’s 2025 updates will come for you. Just look at what happened in the last core updates. • Sites with thin AI content saw traffic collapse. • Automated blogs lost rankings overnight. •...

I am using API's and scraping to build a directory that I hope will get organic traffic from Google. The programmatic SEO approach using Cursor AI generates a lot of pages for locations (it is a directory for a country with almost 200 locations (cities, towns, regions). Some of which has 0...

Hi BHW members, Recently one of my clients got this penalty from Google, and we keep trying to recover his site and doing all the possible strategies. I thought to share about this to this forum members. What is Google "Pure Spam" Penalty? Getting a "Pure Spam" message from Google means...

Hi all! Since the October updates I've been facing the issue that many others posted here. Many of my articles disappeared from the searches but stayed indexed: no impression no click but it is still indexed, but not served. I tried several things to recover the pages like upgrading them...

Hi everybody, In the past few weeks I noticed someone is attacking my site through my in-site search. They search with Chinese characters. - the search result pages did not get indexed because they were tagged as no-index but they were using my crawl index. Changed many things to avoid this...

Hi everyone! Of 146 blog posts, 42 disappeared from Google between 05 and 18 October. I get no impressions and clicks on these articles. When I type site:URL, each post appears in Google. I do not have a penalty in the Search Console Fortunately, 4 of those recovered in 2-5 days to their...

I bought a expired domain about 1 and a half months ago and it is fully ai. It ranked and started to pickup on Google for about a week then dropped still hasn’t recovered. Bing still has me rank high though, why could this be?

Hello there, I intend to start an "Email Marketing" Campaign. I saw that one of my competitors is using great content in his email campaign. So, I'd like to use the same email sequence as my competitor for my campaign, "word for word". With that said, is there any kind of "Google Penalty"...

Hi friends, I need a quick help from you and I really appreciate your time. I want to know your opinion about one of my clients site that I am working on since past few months. This site was down for a month and a half during Nov to Dec 22. I restored it and started publishing new content and...

I have started a website before month and a half and got the 2nd position on google within this period, but yesterday my ranks when down at position over 40+ for every kw i was ranking. I was doing only a link building and have around 70 indexed links. Did i got penalized or its a dance? When i...

Hi Friends, What is a Google Penalty?

One More Big Site Deindexed If I'm not wrong Site was on Automation Site has got so many Articles All Deindexed Is Google Killing Automation Completely? Source - Twitter

There are different types of penalties: Algorithmic Penalty: This type of penalty is carried out automatically and occurs as a consequence of some change in the algorithm that is designed to classify websites in relation to greater/lesser value or relevance. It is characterized by a decrease...

Can anyone explain if I publish duplicate content on my website then Google will penalize me

My website has a domain authority of 28 and many quality backlinks (DA 50+), all organic. Many years after a mysql injection hack, the site still suffers from vastly reduced traffic. I have been building more content over the years, conducted a link detox and submitted a disavow file, built...