"Google May 2020 Core Update" affecting your xF Forum?

[Wesker]

Apparently a glitch

Google Suffers Massive Indexing Glitch

Google suffered an indexing glitch that negatively impacted search quality. This was not an update.

www.searchenginejournal.com

I did notice various keywords were glitched as well. No competitor was on pages 1 through 7. Just a bunch of spam.

 

[askandy]

Apparently a glitch

We saw a 16-17% increase in user sessions yesterday, over our average for the last couple weeks.

I'll be curious to know if that "negatively impacted search quality" glitch helped us, if something else did, or if it was temporary.

 

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[Wesker]

We saw a 16-17% increase in user sessions yesterday, over our average for the last couple weeks.

I'll be curious to know if that "negatively impacted search quality" glitch helped us, if something else did, or if it was temporary.

11% increase for us.

Basically the glitch was beneficial to us.

 

[Wesker]

As of now, viewing cloudflare's uniques, we are about the same as we have been. Maybe a couple hundred to 1k more, if comparing to the weekend but it seems we are now doing better during the week with our SERPs than on the weekend (use to be vice versa). Hoping to see a positive change with this. I've also been making various changes on the site over the last couple of weeks to help with the core vitals and just saw a "flip" on Thursday from mostly all "bad urls" for desktop to nearly all "good". For mobile it flipped from mostly all bad to mostly needing improvement and seeing our good rising along with it. Hoping these small changes help our ranking averages. Been tracking the keywords through SEMrush and it's showing that we've improved on most of our keywords. The keywords I really track, nearly all were in top 3 before this change, now I have 3-4 in top 3 and the rest in the top 10...but as I mentioned, still pretty **** compared to the May update.

Can you breakdown what you did here? I think the XF community needs a detailed guide on the most beneficial ways to fix your onsite SEO.

 

[Wesker]

Will also note we're running both XF1 and XF2. Both were affected in May 2020.

 

[AzzidReign]

Can you breakdown what you did here? I think the XF community needs a detailed guide on the most beneficial ways to fix your onsite SEO.

Honestly...I think there was stuff earlier in this thread that I took the recommendations with. Haven't fully implemented them all but got some more on my todo list. I did recently buy an addon to remove linking to member profiles for guests so google's crawl budget for my site is strictly for threads and not member profiles.

 

[Wesker]

Google did another update on or around 2.5 hours ago. Results are rather positive.

They did an update Monday
Reverted later that day
Now another update was done

 

[rosal]

Google is killing forums for some time

Time to check alternatives...

 

[Mr Lucky]

Google is killing forums for some time

Time to check alternatives...

Isn't it checking the alternatives that is (also) killing forums?

 

[KSA]

Ads revenue dropped by 52% on my forum.

 

[rosal]

Same problem since May.

Ads revenue dropped by 52% on my forum.

 

[djbaxter]

Google did another update on or around 2.5 hours ago. Results are rather positive.

They did an update Monday
Reverted later that day
Now another update was done

It wasn't an update. It was a bug in indexing.

 

[rdn]

Anyone seen an increase for clicks and impressions since Yesterday/August 30?
I've seen double clicks and impression on my Forum.

I hope this will continue.

 

[brunoa]

Anyone seen an increase for clicks and impressions since Yesterday/August 30?
I've seen double clicks and impression on my Forum.

I hope this will continue.

No change on mine since the may update, unfortunately.

 

[rdn]

I'll observe for few more days.

 

[rosal]

Anyone seen an increase for clicks and impressions since Yesterday/August 30?
I've seen double clicks and impression on my Forum.

I hope this will continue.

I only see increasing fake search bots (Robots).

 

[Wesker]

Anyone seen an increase for clicks and impressions since Yesterday/August 30?
I've seen double clicks and impression on my Forum.

I hope this will continue.

No new updates with Google on my end.

Discourse Forums also affected by the May update.

 

[djbaxter]

That probably wasn't an update.

That was due to this issue which included Discourse:

CenturyLink Outage Blamed For Taking Down Popular Websites, Apps | CRN

A widespread CenturyLink outage impacted the United States and Europe on Sunday morning took down Cloudflare, a web infrastructure and website security provider that helps keep websites up and running, that supports many popular websites and services such as Hulu and Xbox Live.

www.crn.com

Update: CenturyLink's Sunday morning outage takes down Cloudflare, Hulu, Amazon and others

CenturyLink suffered a widespread network outage across the U.S. Sunday morning, which had a ripple effect across sites such as Cloudflare, Hulu and Amazon, among others. | CenturyLink suffered a widespread network outage across the U.S. Sunday morning, which had a ripple effect across sites and...

www.fiercetelecom.com

CenturyLink Suspension Triggered Massive Outages For Several Popular Websites And Applications

CenturyLink has tweeted that the service has been restored.

www.digitalinformationworld.com

 

[Anomandaris]

I lost 50% of google search impressions/clicks with the May 2020 Google Core Update

The December Google 2020 Core Update update gave me back the 50% clicks I had lost

Thank god