Yeah, good strategy... because so many people are using Bing and DuckDuckGo trying to find youIf your rankings have dropped on Google
Could I suggest that you do the same search on other search engies.
Eg
On Google - I no longer rank at all
On Bing - I am on Page 1 number 4 and 5
On DuckDuckGo - I am on page 1 number 3
because so many people are using Bing and DuckDuckGo trying to find you
I wonder how many dead links are among those posts.
That's funny that people take for granted that G drives free traffic their way and then call G evil for it doesn't show 20 years old news any more.
Highlights from the webspam report. Below are some figures that the company emphasized in its webspam report:
- Google says its efforts ensure that more than 99% of visits from its results lead to spam-free experiences.
- Paid links and link exchanges have been made less effective, with Google catching more than 90% of link spam.
- In 2018, it reduced user-generated spam (spam accounts on forums, blogs, and other platforms, as well as the posts they create) by 80%; “this type of abuse did not grow in 2019,” the company said.
- The impact of spammy sites (those that feature auto-generated or scraped content) on search users has been reduced by more than 60% compared to 2018.
- Google received nearly 230,000 search spam reports in 2019 and was able to take action on 82% of them.
- The company generated over 90 million messages to site owners about issues that may affect their site’s appearance in search results as well as potential improvements.
- Roughly 4.3 million messages were sent regarding manual actions resulting from Webmaster Guidelines violations.
If you use tags on your forum, carefully consider the last item in that list.Avoid the following techniques:
- Automatically generated content
- Participating in link schemes
- Creating pages with little or no original content
- Scraped content
- Participating in affiliate programs without adding sufficient value
- Loading pages with irrelevant keywords
Google Search is basically looking at the following (not an exhaustive list) to determine which pages to return for any specific search query:
- how accurate is the information on your page?
- how relevant is it to the search query?
- is it the best match to answer the question posed in the search query (20 year old information almost certainly isn't)?
- how original is the content on your page? forums may discuss to death an analysis of a certain issue (just like this thread) but if someone is searching for specific information is it the best information to address the query? For most forums, the answer is probably not.
- does the information on your page reflect established evidence-based factual information? or just user-generated opinion and anecdotal "evidence"?
- is the information on your page regurgitating information originally posted elsewhere? if so, why would Google want to hiughlight your page instead of the source?
- etc., etc., etc.
Google webspam report: Cracking down on renegade linking practices, auto-generated content
“More than 25 billion pages we discover each day are spammy,” the company revealed.searchengineland.com
Google Search Essentials (formerly Webmaster Guidelines) | Google Search Central | Documentation | Google for Developers
The Google Search Essentials make up the core parts of what makes your web-based content (web pages, images, videos, or other publicly-available material that Google finds on the web) eligible to appear and perform well on Google Search.support.google.com
If you use tags on your forum, carefully consider the last item in that list.
If you use systems like Vigilink or similar services that link content to your affiliate accounts, pay attention to the second to last item on that list.
That's a very ignorant, insulting, and disrespectful accusation.How much does G pay you to advocate for them? It sure seems like it's your job.
IMO what is happening is that G is venting it's frustration at not being able...
by the way do we have an ability to manually mark "follow" approved links in posts?Links from users are nofollow by default in Xenforo.
XF 2.2 will allow more control over nofollow, but not on a per link basisby the way do we have an ability to manually mark "follow" approved links in posts?
well that'll give us an option to set links as follow for a usergroup which is goodXF 2.2 will allow more control over nofollow, but not on a per link basis
This is the sad truth for those of us who have guides/tutorials or definitions on our sites.G has become a scrapper site
Been running a forum for 25 years. Been using Adsense since the beginning and finally, after many years quit my regular job about 5 years ago to make a full time commitment to my forum. Two years ago I earned about 150K from Adsense alone. That dropped slightly last year. This year I am on track to earn much less. Yes COVID has a lot to do with that, but the May 4 update has shown to be just as significant a factor.
During the time I have been with Adsense I have removed some of the sites most popular threads because Google didn't like them. What kind of threads? Threads with photos of clothed women with cars, and humor threads. Threads which made the forum more of a community, the kind of stuff that forum's were once known for, and what drew people to stay on the site.
Now we have practically nothing, but tech articles. Google has always said that their publishers should create great content. My site has done just that.
With their latest big change on May 4, it's as if Google has decided that forum's are no longer "authoritative" sites. That's BS. They are a hell of a lot more "authoritative" than a Facebook group.
What really bothers me is that G has become a scrapper site. They find what they believe is the best answer for a search query, pull it from a private website, and put that result at the top of their SERP without any compensation for the site it was taken from. Yes they provide a link to the original content, but who needs to click on the link if all they need is right there on the SERP? That is not "creating great content" that is hijacking great content.
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