Google Core Update Completed as of yesterday September 3, 2024
Hi Wealthy Affiliates,
We were told it would take a month for them to complete. It's less than a month.
https://status.search.google.com/incidents/gVx6b2o78zke7GrMidGy
See my previous post
If you're like me, you might have seen traffic go down during August—it isn't pretty. Let me show you my traffic. Organic traffic went down. I focused on creating new content regardless and used Pinterest and other places like Medium for traffic. Not much happened on Pinterest or Medium for me. I persist no matter what.
I had been busy creating content "write like a demon," as Catherine stated, so I did it. I wrote 25 new articles (some are still in the editing phase), and still more to go.
Now that the core update is done, hopefully, we will see some organic traffic back up to the normal range. My traffic before the August Core update was down, then went up, then down. I was constantly posting new articles. I am not focusing on Google but on other means of traffic. When the August Core 2024 update happened, my site went downward, as shown in this.
See this screenshot from Google Search Console.
My traffic before the August Core update was down, then went up, then down. I was constantly posting new articles. As you can see, it went down to almost 0 impressions after the core update started despite writing new articles. I knew it had something to do with this update. It always happens.
See Barry's article
https://searchengineland.com/google-august-2024-core-update-rollout-is-now-complete-446225
I focused on creating new content regardless and used Pinterest and other places like Medium for traffic.
I did see Daniel's article about recovery from September 2023 HCU Update
https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/danijel3/blog/site-recover-after-august-update-never-give-up
I would continue moving forward, creating new articles and focusing on Pinterest and Medium, my main two focuses. I was going to go with PPC, but my website had technical problems.
I hope everyone's site is doing okay. I did see one from your traffic-slowed. Just like Danijel said, "Never Give Up," especially when Google Core updates happen.
-BrendaMZ
PS: Has your traffic slowed during the August Core 2024 update? Please comment below. I appreciate you.
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Hi Brenda,
As expected, I got a small boost, but this is not a full recovery at all. yeay recovery from Googles update- euh, NO! About 15% is now search traffic from google and the rest is from socials or direct traffic (newsletters, bookmarked pages, etc)
I found that creating a forum on my site was a good move, while I'm promoting that on my Facebook group. In the meantime, I'm also getting near to 650 subscribers to my newsletter.
Although people aren't joining discussions yet, they do read those posts! (as on the contrary when sharing new blog posts on my group)
So yes, keep learning and trying different things!
I am considering buying a facebook course as well to get that up even more, while making more money with adds (as I joined Journey by Mediavine)
But not depending on Google at all anymore, cause this is no 'recovery' . (by the way, my DA has gone DOWN, so it's not all the time about high DA anymore either, I think that nobody even knows anymore what Google is playing at, it's getting ridiculous).
It's good that you keep trying on Pinterest, but do keep in mind that Pinterest is very visual, so I'm not sure if text based pins will do good on it. Medium sounds good for your niche, and you probably should be on Linkedin?
I wonder what the SEO guru's here think about all this, they are awfully quiet hahahahaha
All the best,
Lizzy
Hopefully Google have finally got their ducks in a row after this latest update Brenda....
I'm not holding my breath though!!!
Great to hear from you again my friend and I hope all is well?? :-)
I sincerely hope so Brenda!!
I just got up to 304 posts on my new site and still no love!!
C'est la vie indeed mon amie!!!
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Have you tried quora, Brenda? If you create an account with them, you can see your stats.
The past 30 days, the past 7 days. How many up votes you received, if anyone has shared your post, comments.
Of course there is no guarantee that people will go to your blog. I had close to 4,000 views last month but not one went to my blog.
So, one never knows.
At least you have/had traffic. I have almost 520 posts and still basically zero traffic.
Unless I'm not reading the search console correctly.
I believe the most traffic I have had in a week has been 45. But all of those were impressions only. No clicks.
My posts used to get indexed on the same day or a day later. Now, nothing. For the past two weeks. Perhaps it has something to do with Google as you mentioned.
Speaking of Google, the site trust I have with Google is 100% according to the details page on WA.
But my domain authority is basically zero. Not sure how Google rates authority.
Hopefully the traffic and indexing will pick up.
Not all of the 520 are indexed, but I don't care if they all are. Enough have been indexed.
But I plan on spending some time on search console one of these days.
Try and fix some. I always do a new validation once Google tells me some were not indexed.
The reasons why, I never understand.
My experience is very much like yours with over 460 posts and zero traffic and I don't see that ever improving and gets me to think should I scrap that website and start all over again but there are no guarantees that this won't happen again.
I found that many indexed posts are now deindexed.
Nobody seems to know the whys.
Mick
It simply looks that Google considers AI generated content even if one makes edit changes as spam. I don't trust AI tools anymore.
I feel your pain, wozzy. I've never heard of deindexed.strange.
460 is a lot of posts. I wouldn't scrap it just to start a new one.
Thanks for the info, Brenda. I use quora. I guess that counts as social media.
But I have learned that just because thousands are sering ones blog address, it doesn't mean any of them will go to the blog.
I also check my Bing to see how my blog is doing. Bing always has a message telling me I have no backlinks.
Those are not easy to get. Comment on other blogs. That's not a guarantee that that blog will then put my address on their blog.
And Google doesn't like when one tries to pay to be put on another blog
No, I am not using social media yet. I have decided to part away from AI and focus on well researched content only to see what happens in the next few months.
That hasn't been my experience. AI generated posts are extremely helpful.
Google has always indexed mine fast until recently.
There is no way that you can be sure of that.
Everybody is promoting and using AI even WA who not too long ago were totally against content spinners and here we are using them.
It has to be impossible for Google to know that content was written totally by AI unless there were some markers and a massive database to check against.
Far too much focus is on AI now and if Google penalized people for using it then they are a bunch of?
Using AI to create some content and then modifying it can take more time than writing the content from scratch.
Mick
Good and still why you can't get traffic? Because Google keeps playing the game of indexing your content and then deindexing them a few months later.
One person I have read say that Google told him as long as the post is helpful, your blog will not be penalized.
I imagine most, if not all individual bloggers are using chatgpt for example.
There's no going back. Before AI, people who could afford it, would have human writers do the posts for them.
In the eyes of many bloggers, AI is the great equalizer.
Plus, AI an make an average blogger sound like a great writer.
I have noticed this but paying for traffic is another minefield and big learning curve. I have seen many Jack it all in and leave WA. Obviously people have had enough and all you end up doing is fighting a losing battle with Google. I spent 2 solid years writing a lot of content which as far as I was concerned was unique and helpful and you think what you are doing is right but still your site gets obliterated by Google.
Everybody is using AI because that is the way things have gone and even Google promotes AI but why if they are still going to destroy your site?
I have been thinking about starting again but how do you know whether you are going to be hit with the Google BS.
Well, you don't so how are people today going to succeed?
We don't know that either.
In a nutshell just what do we know because it is all very confusing and probably that is for good reason.
Google says one thing yet means something else whatever that might be.
It's so sad that you don't have a way of contacting the teachers here to ask them what you are doing wrong.
I have a few ideas ( if it is in the MMO niche and you are promoting WA only).
If you have a new site from after the March update., you should see some traffic at least.
If it is an older site, you probably rely way to much on the AI writer and the hubs.
Write about what people want to know in your niche, not what the hubs or keywoord research tools say. Research your niche on socials. Who are the biggest competitors in your niche? And put their sites through Moz and see what they rank for.
I even write about brands whos adds appear on facebook in my niche.., and it gets me new traffic ! Look around on fb groups and forums to see what questions people ask and create your own socials!
Having over 500 posts and no traffic , something is defenitely not working!
The only way to go further is asking an seo what you are doing is ok, or stop wasting your time.
Theres no nice way in saying this.
Lizzy
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Hi Brenda,
The same has happened to me, although I am getting regular impressions and clicks and I can see that my main traffic is coming from my Youtube, X, TikTok AND Facebook.
I have also created a linktree which is getting clicks, and with a link tree it updates itself where ever you have left that link.
But my clicks and impressions at the moment are nothing to make a song and dance about, so you are not alone.
We are all going through the same experience, keep on making your content even if it doesnt have any affiliate links in it.
I created some posts in WA, using HUBS about a particular website and HUBS did a such a fantastic job, that I used my own posts that HUBS created as a tutorial to teach myself expert SEO.
Lets get ready for traffic
Brian
You can put lots of links in one URL, I have included the link below, its not an affiliate link or an affiliate website.
https://linktr.ee/