22% of the 400 sites @glenngabe has been tracking that were hit by Google's September helpful content update saw a 20% lift or more, the rest are still dead in the water https://www.seroundtable.com/google-helpful-content-update-recovery-data-38358.html
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Report: 22% Of Sites Hit By Google's Helpful Content Update Are Up 20%+
I've been wondering how the majority of sites hit by Google's September 2023 helpful content update are doing. Glenn Gabe is tracking about 400 of them, so he provided an update saying 88 (or 22% of t
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Google: Search Ranking Update Coming Soon But HCU Victims Should Move On
Google held that Web Creator summit yesterday at the GooglePlex, where Google told victims of previous search ranking updates including the September 2023 helpful content update, that a new Google sea
Search Engine RoundtableGoogle AI Overviews not linking to sites hit by the helpful content update (or maybe core updates now) even when the traditional search results rank the site well https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ai-overviews-hcu-38225.html via @lilyraynyc and @glenngabe
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Google AI Overviews Not Linking To Sites Hit By Helpful Content Update
Google's AI Overviews seem to not show citations or link to sites that were hit by the helpful content update (and probably core updates), even when you ask the AI Overview directly about that site an
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My Interview Of Google's Search Liaison On The August 2024 Core Update
This week, I interviewed Danny Sullivan, Google's Search Liaison, with the goal of better understanding where Google Search quality is at right now, where it is going in the future, and what we, as co
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Google August Core Update Helpful Content Surge Charts
This Google August 2024 core update has been shaking things up since it began to rollout. We saw some early signs of some sites hit by the September 2023 helpful content see some signs of life. Then
Search Engine RoundtableHard story to read, the folks at @hardbaconca got hit hard by the Google Sep helpful content update, then had to file bankruptcy the day before the core update was announced, the next day, their traffic quadrupled https://www.seroundtable.com/hardbacon-core-update-bankruptcy-37957.html via @julienbrault hat tip @glenngabe
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Hardbacon Announced Closure Day Before August Core Update, Then Sees Traffic Surge
There are many sad stories around sites getting hit by Google algorithm updates, such as core updates and of course the September 2023 helpful content update. But Hardbacon, a financial and budgeting
Search Engine RoundtableFor the first time since Sep. helpful content update, we are seeing some resurrections with this Google August core update (although it is still super early and there is a ranking bug) https://www.seroundtable.com/google-helpful-content-update-recoveries-37920.html
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Some Google Helpful Content Update Resurrections With August Core Update
As you know, Google released the August 2024 core update on Thursday and then shortly after confirmed a ranking bug impacting a large number of search results (which is still not fixed as of the time
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Some Sites Hit By Google Helpful Content Update Seeing Small Lifts
There are reports that some sites hit by the Google September 2023 Helpful Content Update are seeing small, somewhat tiny, lifts over the past week or so. Again, based on what we've been tracking, we
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Google: You Can Recover From Helpful Content Damage With Next Core Update
Google once again said you can recover from the damage inflicted on your site by the September 2023 helpful content update with the next core update. Danny Sullivan, the Google Search Liaison, said o
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Google On Fixing A Few Pages To Recover From Helpful Content Update 👎
John Mueller from Google responded to a question on Reddit about the likelihood of fixing just 10 pages out of 20,000 pages on a site, how that might help that site recover from the Helpful content up
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