4 Articles on Page 1 in Google

(cover image: iPad with Google search page)

Hi Wealthy Affiliates,

After March, Core Updates will also be part of the HCU update—the spam updates. My website lost most of its traffic. Everyone, both big and small blogging websites, was hit. Mine was included (I started this site last November).

Google decided to put in User-Generated Content instead. Those are the parasite SEO that we see on page 1 of Google: Reddit, Quora, and Medium (I do not see many LinkedIn articles like before). I just continued to write and do Pinterest. My traffic there can be up and down. I could not focus on working on other social media platforms because learning it all overwhelmed me to the point where I quickly wore myself out from exhaustion.

Several of the articles that I wrote in June are finally getting small organic traffic. I see four of my articles on page 1 in Google. One article is in position four between Reddit and Quora; my article is in the middle. I found that interesting. That proves that after the dust settles, traffic is returning for some time.

If you answered the question and provided a solution immediately, your article can be posted on page 1 of Google, along with Reddit, Quora, and Medium. It all depends on the topic related to your niche.

I am fully aware that it won't likely stay there long; someone else will come along, and Google will replace it. That's how their algorithm works.

The articles I wrote were from research in Quora and Reddit because people were asking questions that were not answered, and some of the answers written were vague. I wrote a detailed answer to the question and the solution in the blog post. I wrote most of them in my own words, with some help from an AI author and another GPT assistant.

I would love to show it all to you, but due to my bad experiences in the past with other bad actors copying my articles and posting them as if they were theirs, I decided not to show anyone anymore. I am fully aware that copying my articles will happen no matter what. There are some bad actors out there, and an AI overview from Google can also steal my content.

In June and this week of July, I had many articles that were "discovered and crawled but not indexed.," found in Google Search Console. These articles didn't have the /feed or /category on them. These articles were previously indexed, but Google decided to de-index them for numerous reasons.

Most people will click to get it re-indexed. I did that, too. It would get indexed and then de-indexed. It felt like a cat-and-mouse game. Im the cat trying to scratch Google; come on index it. Of course, I've learned that not every article will get indexed, if they indexed it earlier they still can de-index it.

Guess what? I found a solution for that. I did my own testing and am now working on the data to see if the strategy I am using will work. The problem is Google won't tell you why, so you are left to figure it out on your own. My next blog will be about how you can remedy the problem and try to get it indexed, and if they don't index it at all, there are other solutions to that as well.

Until next time!

-BrendaMZ 😀