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Comment ID #4388915339 at 03/21/2019 10:31 pm:

Yasar Pervaiz commented on Google March 2019 Core Update Myth Busting

SO TRUE - I can't speak for everyone but I'm lost - What to do with a site I spent years busting my *** on and now google decides it only needs our product reviews when the visitors is seeking info and not buying. When the visitor is about to buy Google bombards the serps with ads. https://media3.giphy.com/media/ptMZ6eY0Jffe8/giphy.gif

Comment ID #4388909209 at 03/21/2019 10:23 pm:

Yasar Pervaiz commented on Google March 2019 Core Update Myth Busting

You've said it right! I just got done reading an article on SEJ that talks about google search showing results according to "Visitor Journey" which means Google knows exactly what phase your in (info seeking or buying mode) and google decides to show you results according to your specific journey. What this tells me that affiliates can pretty much forget about making money like they use too. Here's what I'm thinking and please correct me if im wrong (Which I really hope I am): When someone is in the journey of seeking info google will tend to show affiliate sites that do reviews on products. BUT when a visitor is done with seeking info and ready to make a purchase and does the same keyword search Google will start showing ads to eCommerce sites since the visitor now wants to buy the stuff. If this is correct it makes no sense for affiliates to do all the hard-work of prepping people and educating them on products for FREE and when times comes for purchase Google shows them their ads. Is Google using affiliate sites to prep and get its users ready to buy and when time comes to buy they start showing their ads so GOOGLE can make money? I may be wrong about this If anyone can read this article on SEJ it would be great to hear your thoughts on this as well: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-search-journeys-seo/299033/?ver=299033X2

Comment ID #4388733735 at 03/21/2019 07:03 pm:

Keith Colson commented on March 12 Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update (Florida 2)

My ranking for my number 1 keywords and my country show my ranked between 1 and 1.1 as pictured here, but I have spent 2 days out of 6 coming up as number 2 on a search. My competitor does spend a lot on adwords but these are ad free positions I am comparing. Am I getting de-ranked because I don't spend money with Google? This seems like I am being cheated. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ad0fb7ad5381fd3f74fb98fb4b70596a2a9e380fca492f9621bfea10c18aa44e.gif

Comment ID #4388711787 at 03/21/2019 06:42 pm:

Tomasz Kwiatkowski commented on Google March 2019 Core Update Myth Busting

i lost today 50% of traffic.

Comment ID #4388615213 at 03/21/2019 05:23 pm:

Stephane commented on Google March 2019 Core Update Myth Busting

Who cares about rankings? I've had keywords in the top 2 spots that made me 2-3 sales a day. Now those same keywords don't even bring me a single visitors despite the fact that they're still in the same spots. Organic search results are now dispersed throughout ads, videos, questions, excerpts, maps, etc... Google did a great job of making sure that visitors stay on their properties.

Comment ID #4388612083 at 03/21/2019 05:21 pm:

Stephane commented on Google March 2019 Core Update Myth Busting

There's no such thing as Penguin. My competitors have spammed their way to the top and they've been there for over 5 years now. I'm even outranked by 1-page websites hosted in AWS S3 buckets with tons of backlinks.

Comment ID #4388483888 at 03/21/2019 03:43 pm:

Vinay B commented on Google March 2019 Core Update Myth Busting

Ufff . . .I have lost my ranking :(

Comment ID #4388348261 at 03/21/2019 02:08 pm:

cheelo commented on Google Now Says Rel=prev/next Is Not An Indexing Signal Anymore

I'm guessing Google has got smarter with pagination and no need for SEOs to recommend it for devs to bork the implementation. Interesting times, can see Google getting smarter in this area. But not smart enough that SEOs are redundant

Comment ID #4388329265 at 03/21/2019 01:54 pm:

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Comment ID #4388274901 at 03/21/2019 01:17 pm:

Matt Rissa commented on Google March 2019 Core Update Myth Busting

Sorry - meant the https as an overall quality indicator rather than a standalone deciding factor - if a website hasn't applied this, i believe it shows the general lack of care towards quality & the end users.

Comment ID #4388273666 at 03/21/2019 01:16 pm:

Kevin Beares commented on Google Now Says Rel=prev/next Is Not An Indexing Signal Anymore

From my own observation, we do know that paginated pages are still indexed by Google as we find some of these pages ranking for specific keywords and we also see them in the SERP. As John stated, each page should stand on it's own. What John did not say is what to do about the other tag that was integral to that guidance, the canonical tag. In the guidance, we were told to remove the canonical tag all together and just let the rel="next" and rel="prev" do the work. Without guidance, I would recommend that each paginated page self-reference and keep the rel="next" and rel="prev" tags since they are crawlable links as well and potentially update the pages with a unique page title like "Page title - Page n". I guess the other option is use a noindex,follow so at least you can get the links crawled. I am pretty miffed by this choice to just 404 the content. They should have updated the guidance and suggested the better solution like what should we do with canonical tags, noindex and follow. I think we need to not forget the intent of having these paginated pages in the first place. We want all of the content that is linked to by this pagination crawled and considered for indexing. Think of BIG eCommerce sites that have multiple pages of products under a major category or a Blog that has a large amount of content under a given topic. You still want the crawlers to find this content regardless if you want the paginated page indexed or not. I will finish with this... I would highly recommend not implementing an infinite scrolling page if you want crawlers to find all of your linked products or content that was paginated. I have not observed that Google or Bing can crawl JS based infinite scrolled pages especially if it does not change the URL. Any JS the goes server side to retrieve new content better be href'd and not event based or you may just lose crawling of the paginated content.

Comment ID #4388247437 at 03/21/2019 12:58 pm:

tvdthanh commented on Google Now Says Rel=prev/next Is Not An Indexing Signal Anymore

Right on Jeff! And now how do we better manage crawl budget? Pagination is just the path to good content. Paginated pages themselves don't matter. Are we back to canonicalizing to Page 1 of the paginated series? I thought Google recommended against that. I'm getting all sorts of mixed signals. Hope Google can clarify.

Comment ID #4388129271 at 03/21/2019 11:35 am:

Things commented on Google March 2019 Core Update Myth Busting

Nope, they will act now, as they are losing ground, don't get me wrong, I don't like the EU, it's not about customer protection, they are politically afraid of losing control. I know some stuff, EU will fine Google a lot, along other companies in the following months and years. They will request things that are unaccomplishable.

Comment ID #4388125563 at 03/21/2019 11:32 am:

Christian Noel commented on Google Now Says Rel=prev/next Is Not An Indexing Signal Anymore

There are other ways to handle pagination. It isn't a big deal. What is just annoying is that some e-comm folks on either the agency or in-house side probably spent hours trying to convince someone else that they needed to do "XYZ" "Google" "Blah" just to get this type of implementation approved, on a developers roadmap and *poof* "ooopsie",says Google "Haven't used it in a couple years. Yeah, sorry, bye!" <sigh> Like I said lots of ways to handle pagination for better UX etc, but man this kind of stuff sucks for some people.

Comment ID #4388124081 at 03/21/2019 11:31 am:

too little too late commented on Google March 2019 Core Update Myth Busting

Well I hope they do but it will probably take another 10+ years. By which time the Internet will be dead much like the high street.

Comment ID #4388114227 at 03/21/2019 11:24 am:

pointless commented on Google On March 2019 Core Update: We Try To Make Incremental Improvements

This was ranking number 1 yesterday with the FS. https://www.rong-chang.com/namesdict/100_last_names.htm

Comment ID #4388101979 at 03/21/2019 11:15 am:

Maxwell Pond commented on Google Explains Trailing Slashes & How It Impacts SEO

Trolling helpful people... Not a great way to make friends in the SEO community.

Comment ID #4388092438 at 03/21/2019 11:08 am:

Andrew Corbett commented on Google Now Says Rel=prev/next Is Not An Indexing Signal Anymore

Canonicals

Comment ID #4388089780 at 03/21/2019 11:06 am:

Ghuiyya_ke_kofte commented on Google March 2019 Core Update Myth Busting

ahahahaha :))

Comment ID #4388073233 at 03/21/2019 10:54 am:

Satan's Apprentice commented on Google Now Says Rel=prev/next Is Not An Indexing Signal Anymore

ARE YOU KIDDING ME? My Company (2 large ecomm sites) just invested a large amount of resources and cash on adding this to our site at my recommendation. Thanks for the update Mr. Mueller! We are getting duplicate content errors in GSC for paginated pages. I adjusted the settings for parameters in GSC. Without rel=prev/next, how does this get cleaned up?

Comment ID #4388038591 at 03/21/2019 10:28 am:

Deacyde do hurtin commented on Google Now Says Rel=prev/next Is Not An Indexing Signal Anymore

Google eventually will exclude subpages and archives ( tag and categories ) due to canonical tags found on the original pages. Searchbots listen to canonical tags and therefor, when duplicate content is found, and no canonical tag, it's excluded, you can see this in search console, under Index > Coverage > Excluded tab. Mainly the pagination pages are more follow links to crawl for indexing purposes, think of them as more avenues to get downtown...

Comment ID #4388027673 at 03/21/2019 10:20 am:

Kayla Reyes commented on March 12 Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update (Florida 2)

Major drop in traffic for our site as well. We're in the health/cannabis education space. SEMrush visibility dropped almost 5%.

Comment ID #4388005615 at 03/21/2019 10:04 am:

ZahidAwan96 commented on Google March 2019 Core Update Myth Busting

google update continue or stop today my job website 40% drop traffic

Comment ID #4387996123 at 03/21/2019 09:57 am:

Hitesh Bhasin commented on Google Now Says Rel=prev/next Is Not An Indexing Signal Anymore

Can anyone guide me - If this is the case, do we need to index sub pages of archives? Page 1, Page 2 etc. Or do we keep it noindex? What is the use of indexing such pages which are low quality and google anyways does not use prev and next for indexing?

Comment ID #4387994133 at 03/21/2019 09:55 am:

The Tech SEO commented on Google Now Says Rel=prev/next Is Not An Indexing Signal Anymore

For realz... I push all my e-com clients to use these. Now there is 0 benefits? I need to update my recommendations now.

Comment ID #4387977532 at 03/21/2019 09:43 am:

Barbie commented on Google March 2019 Core Update Myth Busting

october = march

Comment ID #4387976805 at 03/21/2019 09:42 am:

Barbie commented on Google March 2019 Core Update Myth Busting

Update Google 18-19 october 2019

Comment ID #4387916383 at 03/21/2019 08:51 am:

Tomasz Kwiatkowski commented on Google March 2019 Core Update Myth Busting

Today is everything possible.

Comment ID #4387914337 at 03/21/2019 08:49 am:

GinoRomero commented on Google March 2019 Core Update Myth Busting

Is it possible that a Google Algorithm Update only affects AMP pages? Our regular desktop and mobile pages remained unaffected but saw a massive drop (-70%) on AMP pageviews

Comment ID #4387914289 at 03/21/2019 08:49 am:

Tomasz Kwiatkowski commented on Google March 2019 Core Update Myth Busting

Hit hard today, shaking serps in DE and other European countries.