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Yes, I did only two things: 1. changed my site structure (removed all my best articles from the menus and the footer and added them at the same level as my other articles in the hub, so it's not the typical SEO silo structure that boosts the 'best' articles) 2. I did the disawol method and...

well technically from the march update, that integrated the hcu in the core algo. Here is a screenshot from the console:

So far, my site has recovered about 90% of its traffic. However, the past 6 months taught me a lesson and for the future, I'm focusing on diversifying my traffic and I ll take what google sends as a bonus. Its just very unstable and I got no guarantee the next update wont wipe it out again.

yea i have not cried or touched anything, just let it be, and im seeing a reversal as well. HCU killed my traffic by 80%. This core boosted me a lot in the first day and im now just 30% down compared to the february levels. I hope its not the ranking bug they are talking about and it really is a...

just a quick update. havent touched a thing since the end of may. all of a sudden, a few days ago, one of my 'best' kind of articles started to rank in the top 3 again. The rest are still page 3. I'm not sure what to think of this; I would say it makes me even more confused, lol.

they usually test stuff like this, then they evaluate and if they like the results, the launch the core. so a new one is probably coming soon.

Ok, another observation. My rankings in europe (except the uk) are as if there was no update ever. Still ranking in top 3 and i get some traffic in conversion there. Not sure if you guys have noticed that, but europ and us serps are totally different. Im not sure what they did to mess the us...

ok, just an update. After i submitted my disawol file and fixed all my internal anchors and pushed all the links trough crawlers several times, I went on a 1 month road trip with an rv in the north west. Yellowstone and Glacier are amazing, btw a must-see for everyone. Anyway, the results are...

I have no idea, really. My logic is that the bot should find the images by crawling the pages, so the bot should be able to fetch them. But I guess time will tell. Other search engines should work in a similar way I assume. It should. In theory, if a page is 410, links to it should not be...

I keep getting those spam links to my images, so what I did is I turned my bot protection on Cloudflare (doubt it ll help) and I made a worker that returns 410 if anyone accesses my images directly. JS is not my strong side, but it works. So when these guys link to my images, Google will get a...

You can ask GPT to assist. Just ask it to create scripts for w/e you are doing. E.g. I made myself one PHP script that loads all the links I have to my site, then when I select a URL, it finds all URLs from this domain and selects and adds them to the disavow file. You can make scripts to clean...

for me and quite a few sites i checked the march update started around 14 feb.

Im on nginx, so these are my rules: #thats for the main location location / { # Check for the unapproved query parameter if ($args ~* "unapproved") { return 410; } try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args; } #thats in the domain specific conf file in...

k, submitted 4k domains and 42k urls to the disavow following the @Grind and @CCarter advice. crawling them at the moment. lets see what happens. what i noticed: Semrush has the most links. Majestic and LRT had some additional that SEMrush did not, but LRT have a lot of false positives IMO...

I will try this with a domain, but its not about the shop (the link I posted does not have one) but about the structure.

Ok, here is something else that I am thinking. I was digging into the sites of this media https://pillarfour.com/brands Most of their sites that are structured like niche sites/affiliate/content types are falling. This one here is a big winner https://www.garagegymreviews.com/equipment , but...

Yes, this is the only way to look at it. There is never just one smoking gun. That's why I am currently working in 3 main directions: Disavowing the spam from the past 3 months, only in Semrush. I've got 25k new links from 3k domains in this short period. Upgrading my site structure - copying...

This is the search console of a small site I have. It was hit by the medic in Aug 2018, and the last update on the articles was around the summer of 2017. I haven't touched it since. No content updates, no new backlinks, no disavows, nada. But it moves up and down w/e the guys at google move the...

I think there is a mix of reasons why sites drop from these updates. 1. Links 2. Content shift 3. Mix of both I have sites affected by both N1 and N2. I can give a blueprint on how to identify if it is your content or your links. On an existing post that does not rank well, go copy the N1...

For the most lucrative queries with 'best' Query 1: 1. Niche site, was N2 before I got hit. Very similar but better researched content than mine. 2. An app with a shallow porrly written gpt piece, but a brand (has thousands of searcher for the brand name) 3. reddit 4. amazon 5. another shop 6...