I have no idea on this one but it certainly could nr ask Support or Kyle.

Interesting, but Abie said, there have been some changes — I wonder if that impacting Jaxxy results.

-Mike

There has been a change in how Google is displayed, i.e., scrolling down six pages before shifting to the next page.

However, there was a Jaaxy update yesterday (Jaaxy was slow, and the team was fixing it)

But I have not noticed.

Also, Kyle is in the live chat right now. Maybe you'd like to ask them that.

A quick update on this ...

I've noticed a few more of these scraper sites in the SERPS lately. They follow exactly the same format with 100's of thousands of pages sitting below a 'FAQ' folder.

This latest one I've found has 750k pages indexed in Google!

I reported the original one I found using a couple of avenues so let's see what goes.

I should probably save all their keyword targets before the big G wipes these sites out! It's a pretty obvious footprint.

Have a great day all :-)

Hi Rohan, I've been seeing sites like these in the SERPs as well. It could be a resource issue for Google.

I don't know for certain, but I suspect Google employs different crawl levels (similar to an anti-virus "quick scan" vs. a "full scan") to manage their resources. Rather than running every newly published article through a complete crawl when indexed, established domains may be given a "quick scan" of sorts.

It's only speculation, but it would make sense that Google only uses its full resources on a page, such as AI detection, image downloads, etc., periodically. As a result, many of these sites are initially getting through and ranking.

Or it could be something we see in a future update. Google is likely aware of these sites, but rather than dealing with them one by one could release an update that wipes them out all at once. Google does have a history of doing that.

Behavior metrics will also re-adjust the SERPs over time as people use the back button to ping-pong from that article and into yours.

Either way, if your article satisfies the searcher's intent and provides better help than your competitors, you should regain your position, relatively speaking. Of course, if the competing site's authority is significantly higher that's not always the case.

It'll come around.

Good responses here…sometimes it takes Google a while to make a full judgement. Maybe in time it’ll see your site better and rank it higher.

-Mike

if it has only just been created google may be testing the other site for relevancy and found the one paragraph for the keyword you chose more relvant than the content you wrote...but it is up to the searchers as to whether it stays there....
google is really not very good at making decisions like this as i had/ have it happen to one of my sites where someone copied an article and that site ( along with other ripped off articles) ranks above my site...
can you do anything - there are three dots to the side of the search results - i am tending to use them ( do they make a difference - don't know) tolet google know what i think of their results...
if it was a direct rip off then there are actions you can take...
will google weed it out - don't know - searchers may prefer the shorter content answering the query - in which case - nope....it will stay ranking no1...

Sounds like you got your answer. Best Wishes.

I'm glad to jump in here!

ShareASale uses different criteria to count something as a click than EAFL or other companies. Only ShareASale can verify that it's an actual click; the other companies are just guessing based on much looser parameters. Their system isn't designed to specifically capture only SAS clicks, or only CJ clicks, or only Rakuten clicks, but rather to have a broad set of criteria that "probably means it's a valid click, but isn't quite 100% sure."

We have to keep our standards quite high, because only verifiable clicks can lead to verifiable sales.

You may want to reach out to Jeannine, ShareASale rep for WA.

https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/jeanninec

Take a look at how SAS actually counts their views. From their website:

"The ShareASale platform tracks “unique” hits, where a single user who clicks the same link in a several-hour timespan is counted as 1 hit instead of multiple.
In comparison, raw clicks are tracked every time the link is clicked, even if the same user clicks the links multiple times within a short period.

Almost all the ShareASale reports will display unique hits unless otherwise noted.

The Today at a Glancereport, however, will show you both unique and raw clicks as raw clicks can be helpful when confirming that your links work.

Raw clicks will be recorded at the top of the Today At a Glance report while unique clicks are shown at the bottom."

Rudy

Hey Rohan,

There's a couple of main reasons this may occur, if you've already done all your "weak site" checks.

Firstly, will be "searcher intent", i.e. what is the intention behind someone making this search?

This should be fairly obvious if the "keyword" is question-based, but I'll admit it isn't always.

The best way to check what Google feels is the right "searcher intent" is to check the top 3 sites ranking for that particular keyword.

The reason these sites are ranking at the top of the page is because Google feels they've "nailed it" in terms of searcher intent.

So, read through, take some notes, what are these articles including that yours doesn't?

Have they expanded on the topic or have they simply "answered the question"?

Do they provide additional data, statistics, or facts that you weren't aware of?

Obviously, you want your own article to be completely unique, but you can certainly "steal" ideas from your competitors to improve your own content.

Secondly, unfortunately, a fact of life - Nothing stays the same forever.

I'm actually in the process of rewriting ALL articles on my Exercise site.

I'm currently on January 2021, and the article I'm rewriting today, when I check page one of Google, guess what?

ALL authority sites, no user generated content, and no low DA sites.

You have to remember that ranking is literally an on-going "competition".

When you rank fairly quickly for a great phrase, people will take notice.

It could even be that you have replaced others at the top of the rankings.

It's likely they won't take this lying down.

"Who's this dude, what's he written, how has he taken my number one ranking spot, how can I get it back?"

In effect, the websites you have displaced will do EXACTLY what I have mentioned in part one of this reply, they will do competitor analysis to improve their own content, and hopefully get their number one ranking back.

Then again, there are those who are targeting similar "keywords", and as their articles have aged they start ranking for more RELEVANT keywords, and some of these could be the articles that you were originally ranking for.

Essentially, this "competition" between you and your competitors never stops.

I guess you could say, this is how business works, whether online or offline.

In my case, and the article I'm looking to rewrite today, the "keyword" is NO LONGER an "easy-to-rank" keyword.

It was two years ago when I first wrote it, but now page one has some serious competition and a lot of authority websites.

I could of course change the keyword slightly and see if I can find something "easier to rank", however, looking at it from a "helpful" point of view rather than a "ranking" perspective, this is an article that SHOULD be on my website.

So, I will rewrite it, but the main issue being, it is no longer a "great" keyword.

Once more, I've checked out the top 3 websites ranking for this keyword and also the top 3 YouTube videos ranking for this keyword.

Having taken notes, I can see that the rewrite has a LOT more information to be added that was missing from the original article.

Finally, as you've mentioned yourself, not everything you write is going to be a "home run".

Even if you've done all your checks, and everything seems great, for some unknown reason you never seem to rank.

This is where the power of links works, and as Lula has mentioned, internal links can work quite well.

What you can do is to find your "authoratitive articles" on that topic ACCORDING TO GOOGLE.

What you can do is do a site check in Google for the main seed keyword/topic of conversation.

So, as an example, let's say that your main topic of conversation is affiliate marketing, you type the following into Google:

site:mywebsitename.com "affiliate marketing"

(obviously replace mywebsite.com with the your own domain name)

Google will ONLY list results from YOUR website.

And the ORDER in which they are listed tells you which articles have more AUTHORITY (according to GOOGLE) on that topic of conversation.

Therefore, an internal link from each of your TOP 3/5/10 articles on that topic of conversation (according to Google) could give your lowly-ranking article a little boost in the SERPs.

There's no guarantees, but definitely worth a try.

Plus, if the article is over a year old, consider rewriting it and checking our your competitions' articles.

Partha

Looks like you are well covered here with some excellent insight and guidance.

Please let us know if you still have any questions.

-Mike

Howdy, it could be many things but think of ways to enhance post quality and internal links.