Google Helpful Content Update Fix? ( Good Advice )

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  • Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
  • If your site was hit by the HCU then some of the advice offered by Google might now be worth listening to.
    In the past it has been not very helpful shall we say. But, lately, it's been much better.
    Finding a fix for the Helpful content update might actually be possible and John Mu and the Google liaison team seem to be giving us better advice.
    If you want to recover from the HCU then take a look at today's video.
    I hope if helps.
    I'm not an expert, just offering my opinions.

Комментарии • 32

  • @easyspanieltraining
    @easyspanieltraining 7 месяцев назад +10

    I feel that you are being too kind to Google and crediting them with the intelligence to 'know what they are doing'. The fact that they state that they 'visit your site regularly' and then say that 'it might take 3 to 6 months to discover content - if at all' - demonstrates otherwise.......

  • @jollyjames30
    @jollyjames30 7 месяцев назад +6

    Seems like a whole bunch of guess work. Nobody knows anything. Not even Google knows what's going on! 😂

  • @josbertels6959
    @josbertels6959 7 месяцев назад +3

    Google is one of the leading companies in AI. They have Gemini, Bard, Bert, etc., but people still think that Google can't read at all. People still think Google cares about a 404, a broken link, or a missing alt tag. I miss those days when this was important. I think it's all outdated information and a pure waste of time.

    • @CarlBroadbent
      @CarlBroadbent  7 месяцев назад +1

      What do you think is important? And any tip you can share for people to recover a site

    • @josbertels6959
      @josbertels6959 7 месяцев назад

      @@CarlBroadbent Try to learn as much as possible from Koray Tuğberk GÜBÜR. His material is advanced and hard to learn, but once you understand it, you will understand how Google works.

  • @AdamWagner-qy4je
    @AdamWagner-qy4je 7 месяцев назад +2

    Very helpful information and tips Carl! Thank you. It's just frustrating that Google destroys other people's business and sites... Very demotivating... Hopefully something will change in the next month's, we need to wait and be patient.

    • @CarlBroadbent
      @CarlBroadbent  7 месяцев назад

      Being patient is key

    • @zahidali-eg4wg
      @zahidali-eg4wg 7 месяцев назад

      ​@@CarlBroadbent hi sir my site hit by September hcu site traffic drop to 50k to 1000i have update content but nothing happen to site can you suggest anything to recover site traffic again and how much time it will take

    • @CarlBroadbent
      @CarlBroadbent  7 месяцев назад

      All my suggestions are in this video and others i post. Take a look and hopefully something will help. Good luck
      @@zahidali-eg4wg

  • @LiftHillsandThrills
    @LiftHillsandThrills 7 месяцев назад +4

    For how many people this has affected a lawsuit against Google would be a solid case

    • @inlovewiththailand
      @inlovewiththailand 7 месяцев назад +1

      How do you figure that? Google doesn't owe you anything. It sucks for those who lost rankings in google but at the same time, some of those people only focused on SEO and not try to diversify their traffic sources. Are you going to sue Amazon then too when they cut their commissions?

    • @LiftHillsandThrills
      @LiftHillsandThrills 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@inlovewiththailand Purposely altering the SERPS to prioritise sites who make them $$ for starters. A company in the US are already pursuing it. Alternate traffic sources will NEVER outrank or outweigh Google SERPS traffic unless you just so happen to go viral

  • @asiatravels007
    @asiatravels007 7 месяцев назад +9

    Why is it called Google Helpful Content when theres nothing helpful about it? 😡
    Google search is an absolute mess, i often have to go pages deep to find an answer im looking for. There were more relevant answers 10 years ago than now when searching, so Helpful Content nonsense is absolute clown world. 🤡🤡👍

  • @TheColossalBlanket
    @TheColossalBlanket 7 месяцев назад +1

    Thanks for this. I've updated everything on my site, defluffed, redirected, merged articles and redesigned the home page. Did that a month ago and I have actually seen and extra 30 views over the part couple of days for each day so 🤞. I never got over 150 before, maybe throttled?
    Do you have any tips for alt text and meta tags? I never bothered with that before and I don't feel I really suffered as a result. Might be worth looking into now as one last thing.

    • @CarlBroadbent
      @CarlBroadbent  7 месяцев назад

      I’m not an expert in that but I make sure to add the basics and especially in images. Most people download an image from canva or other similar sites and do nothing to them. Such a waste.

  • @AMagiadasFlores
    @AMagiadasFlores 7 месяцев назад +2

    I think 2024 will be the year we will see the burying of artificial link building and bulk generated content with AI. I would also speculate that SEO tools fundamentally built upon Google's SERP may face the same fate.

  • @planyourbestday2411
    @planyourbestday2411 7 месяцев назад +8

    you keep saying you don't know anything and all you do is guess, but then why make this video?

  • @ste3756
    @ste3756 6 месяцев назад +1

    All what you think is the problem then it is not the answer. The HCU is something YOU have applied all that time ago but today *almost* nobody knows where the cancer is. Please, please don’t listen to the post of waiting 3 to 6 months. Remember one thing all the high traffic you had is gone.

  • @krod16
    @krod16 7 месяцев назад +1

    One correction is that search liasion is Danny Sullivan rather than John Mueller. Thankfully.

    • @CarlBroadbent
      @CarlBroadbent  7 месяцев назад

      I know. I spotted the name before I publish.

  • @vinces5761
    @vinces5761 7 месяцев назад

    Great video Carl. I feel there won't be a fix anytime soon, because Google themselves have said that the classifier will stay on your site even if you fix it, until they see all the unhelpful content has stopped being created. So if you fix it today you may not see any improvement for many months.

  • @sarasveggiekitchen
    @sarasveggiekitchen 7 месяцев назад +1

    Thank you Carl. I have hope.

  • @swagnexttuber-boombeach7092
    @swagnexttuber-boombeach7092 7 месяцев назад

    Can custom 404 page solve 404 error? Or do I need to redirect it to relevant content ?

  • @steveiws
    @steveiws 7 месяцев назад +1

    Time on site, engagement, ctr, all browser based and trackable as per current legal case is leaking. Whats your average time on page? If its low your content is probably crap.