Hit by Google algorithm change due to Xenforo's search entities?

[Jon Peters]

Here's the information from Fruition.net's penalty checker:

The only entities on the site are those provided by Xenforo.

Anyone else experience a drop in traffic?

 

[rdn]

Nah, I experience opposite
I notice 10% growth on traffic everyday since Panda 4.0.

 

[Jon Peters]

You must have some good content.

I'm concerned specifically about if the entities may not be implemented correctly by Xenforo.

 

[Jon Peters]

My best guess so far is that Google does not like Xenforo calling posts articles and such.

 

[Mike]

I don't have a clue what that line is actually even referring to. The terminology they use is only listed by Fruition. What do the details say?

 

[Jon Peters]

Yeah details seem to be a little scarce for sure.

Here's what the details link says:

Entity Authority Integration into Search Snippets. Mini knowledge boxes. Google rolled out entities within search snippets. This is similar to a knowledge box but on a smaller scale. Wikipedia and DMOZ (serious google?) are two of the sources that have been displayed. This change was hinted at by Matt Cutts' in April, 2014.

 

[Arantor]

In other words, that sounds an awful lot like 'Google taking your content and showing bits of it to users so they don't have to come to your actual site'.