Thanks! Needed this motivation. 1/4 of my monthly income just disappeared overnight with this update. Thank God I've got a decent foothold on RUclips under 2 other accounts.
@@JoeMac1983 I think you can just adjust the articles on your site that have lost rankings. Do a google search and see what takes up the top few spots and adjust your pages accordingly. I think this video is a bit daft.
In some way, we have all become too much dependent on Google. Google is too powerful, can decide whatever they want, and we just accept that. I'm trying to diversify my marketing efforts more to become less dependent on Google and its constant changes. It's hard, it's a lot of work, but there are other ways to run a successful website without relying too much on Google. It's better for my mental health as well. These constant core updates are hitting website owners hard. I now run a big community and have a big newsletter subscribers list. I'm not saying goodbye to SEO, it's still part of my strategy, but I focus on other methods more and more.
@@aarong9327there’s always Facebook and Instagram ads. Very cheap compared to paying Google for PPC. Look into it and see if it might be an affordable advertising option while you keep developing the SEO of the site. Bing Ads is pretty good too. Google Ads is great if you already have PPC experience on top of SEO and know how to optimize everything so the costs are cheaper. The whole name of the game is brand awareness at that point of the buyers journey. Plus PPC campaigns can compliment your SEO campaign by giving you real time keyword research right in front of you!
Totally true. Now I recognize that it was my fault depending on Google and its crappy updates. There is a whole world outside of SEO. My site wasn't totally destroyed, it still makes some money so the best thing I can do is take advantage of the time to diversify my traffic sources. It is the most advisable.
Following the latest Google helpful content update, my website's traffic took a 40% hit. However, without making any changes, my site made a full recovery in just 15 days. I want to extend my gratitude to you for your video and the valuable information you provided.
I'll be honest, I don't really know. 2 weeks ago, my average position was 22-24, then on 09/17, my average position jumped to 9.4 and has pretty much stayed at 9-14 every day since. I've been following your videos for several months now, and I'm in the masterclass, but that was also months ago, and I haven't done anything different in the past 2 weeks that could explain it; so I am presuming it has something to do with the update.@@jessecunninghamv
My site has been fine, continuing to soar! I use AI to automate the tedious stuff and careful edit any AI content I generate and had handwritten posts too. The AI posts tend to do really well with Featured Snippets I noticed.
You know what is weird about this update is I took about a 60% drop in traffic. Most of my articles had been sitting at the number 1 spot but dropped 5, 10, even 30 positions. Today most of my articles have moved back to number 1 or close to number 1. But my traffic has only increased by 16% this week over last week. I would have expected a larger increase. For now, I am just letting it ride. These updates can sometimes take a month to stabilize. I have also being seeing worthless articles or comments now ranking above my articles that provide the direct answer. I just started using A.I. to complement my writing, so I need to wait and see how those articles are going to do. I always add personalization to all my articles, including these new A.I. partially written articles that I am experimenting with.
Yep. All of my sites that have zero AI lost 50-60% of their traffic overnight. 4 sites in total. The 3 AI sites I've been building were unphased by the update. I'm going all in on AI.
Dude, Jesse. I am constantly blown away at how much value you constantly provide to the people. I am so grateful to have you as a such a wise and reliable resource. Much Love
Good video, Jesse. From what I can see, a lot of traffic moves (especially with the question/answer) type articles lost rankings because of dropped snippets. Also, a lot forums that fell out of favor a few years ago, regained their rankings. Thus removing question/answer articles. With that drop, lots of articles that were interlinked to the dropped articles also lost rankings. What you explained about easy accessable articles based on link depth I agree with.
Here is how to recover from last update: report a search result that does not match the search intent anymore, and it did before the update rolled out. You can report it by clicking on the 3 points next to the search result, scroll down and write the feedback. Google takes this feedback very serious. It says more to them than user data. Also, make as many people as possible do the same! Spread the words on your friends, communities and reactions and we will have the update rolled back!
Build a brand. Build multiple portal sites that link to each other and market different products and services. Add blogging to these specific hubs and build an audience of your dream customers. Or just chase an algorithm that is based in the past and can change quickly.
Found your post interesting to watch. I can't wait to see your new videos soon. Good Luck with the upcoming update. This RUclips channel is very informative and effective.
Thanks for this an eye-opening episode! How do you think AI-generated content will continue to impact SEO, and what key strategies should website owners prioritize for success in this changing landscape?
Many of my site's keywords dropped significantly from October 7th. However, I notice that many of my competitors have not fallen so much, and are actually recovering the curve. Does this have to do with the new Google updates? Can it influence in different ways to other sites? Or could it be because of the current content?
What intrigues me after this update is that both the click rate and the impression rate dropped a lot, but the keyword position dropped a little, around 2 positions.
@@jessecunninghamv Nice video but what are the real take aways here? Thanks. Just write ( or get AI to write) tonnes of articles around a very narrow topic with minimal editing?
I have a question about the autoblogging directly from the ai writers to post directly to WP. When I do that, since I use Thrive Themes in most of my sites... this feature doesn't work, since it posts to the WP editor and not to my designed with thrive area. And for the sites we are using simple WP editor, we still have to go in to edit the formatting, etc. Do you have a workaround you are using for this? I see you are using elementor which is almost like thrive.
my website was hit last year. i hired a developer to rebrand my website and it started picking up and then it tanked again with this update to 75% loss again. how do i recover?
See what I am seeing on my sites is that I do not do much seo. Yes I do the title tag ( keyword) and the h1 ,h2’s but that’s it. I do not optimise for search engines. I just write content that makes sense to my audience. I have seen plenty of well optimised content in my niche but it just doesn’t read right.
Great data even if from one site. I've seen somewhat similar in whatever "tight" siloed / hubs, but have kept them generally smaller. Only 5-7 articles around each "top tier" article. How are you deciding how many articles go into the (for example) Philodendron hub?
I do a lot of AI images and prompting in MidJourney, Leonardo, Dall-e, etc. But NONE of them can do people's hands anatomically correct most of the time. Also, they have a long ways to go on cats. I have several niche blogs in cat niches, and ai is terrible with their paws and tails, lol! I take all my own photos of my cats. I think there are specific images that also require human taken photos. The other niche I am in is real estate niches, I am a realtor too, and build SEO for realtors too. You have to take your own photos of homes or you won't convert because buyers want to see the photos of the real houses in the neighborhoods. So it is all relative:) I do other niches where it doesn't matter and I try to do all AI images.
It makes me crazy how you wave your arms around so close to your beverage, I keep thinking that’s going to end up on your floor or all over your keyboard 😂
This video is full of gold. I came to see what you were going to say about the Google Update, but now you sparked something in me :). One question I do have, most of my sites I just launch on WordPress... but are you running a non-wordpress site (like just pure html site)? That would be so much faster to pop out websites like that.
@@jessecunninghamv I guess the .html files in the sitemap is what was throwing me off. I saw you use Yoast and I'm like wait a minute :). I have been following a while, I have all of my tools ready, now it's time to attack!
@@olddouchebag for me it kind of helped clear up content clusters or silos.. or whatever the new trendy word is. So going for main keyword, then have other articles with long-tail of that keyword then pointing to it. It gave me some insight into how I interlink. I also study black hat techniques, but don't employ them and this confirmed some of my research talking about the UGC mammoth sites. My sites have been on an upwave ever since this update came out. Good luck!
@@93cutty From what I see looking at search results, keeping it simple is best. Get straight to the point and no messing about. In the past people were writing long blog posts to "show" authority and depth. They had long intro paragraphs and lots of unnecessary fluff. The answer to your question was invariably at the bottom of the page. Very annoying. Now with the advent of Chat GPT there is competition to give the answer faster. Pages at the top of search results have the answer at the top of the page or an incredibly simple and easy to digest layout. So that's what I'm going for. Actually it's better for us. Just answer the question and make it very clear. Far less need to pad out articles to get noticed by the the search engine. To be honest I think this video is trying to game the system and this technique will soon enough be useless. I'm not taking it seriously.
1. Never read hitchhiker's guide. I read very little fiction, but I've read more self-help and business books than I care to count. :) 2. I was hit in this update, but I definitely agree it's a good thing. I believe it will thin the herd. The people who were new bloggers or just followed the Income School model of creating content have gotten crushed. I think we're getting to a place where people who are successful will need to implement quality SEO tactics. As AI gets better and better, the gap between those who understand how to leverage the tools and those who don't will just continue to expand.
Great video, some great points, but I don't think your website is a good example of how to survive HCU. Not because the website or content isn't good, but because the content is pretty new and it just started ranking. I barely see sites with the majority of the content being
Great point! This update is definitely hit or miss and me showing one website is just to show one website - it's not conclusive - not by any means - I have so many friends in this space who are better at SEO than me - and their websites got hit....so go figure - I have older websites that are still unfazed - but oftentimes they have been service based or product based business (real businesses), but then again - I've seen those types of businesses slammed too - my current focus is dominating tiny sectors of a niche, lowering Google's cost of retrieval, and rinse and repeat - all expedited with AI. I hope this helps.
Great video, now lets talk about how Google now shows images, if it's an item For Sale it will be shown 1st, if Not, your image may not be shown at all. sigh.
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Thanks! Needed this motivation. 1/4 of my monthly income just disappeared overnight with this update. Thank God I've got a decent foothold on RUclips under 2 other accounts.
@@JoeMac1983 I think you can just adjust the articles on your site that have lost rankings. Do a google search and see what takes up the top few spots and adjust your pages accordingly. I think this video is a bit daft.
In some way, we have all become too much dependent on Google. Google is too powerful, can decide whatever they want, and we just accept that. I'm trying to diversify my marketing efforts more to become less dependent on Google and its constant changes. It's hard, it's a lot of work, but there are other ways to run a successful website without relying too much on Google. It's better for my mental health as well. These constant core updates are hitting website owners hard. I now run a big community and have a big newsletter subscribers list. I'm not saying goodbye to SEO, it's still part of my strategy, but I focus on other methods more and more.
100% agree
Totes. How does one build up a big newsletter without organic traffic?
@@aarong9327there’s always Facebook and Instagram ads. Very cheap compared to paying Google for PPC. Look into it and see if it might be an affordable advertising option while you keep developing the SEO of the site. Bing Ads is pretty good too. Google Ads is great if you already have PPC experience on top of SEO and know how to optimize everything so the costs are cheaper. The whole name of the game is brand awareness at that point of the buyers journey. Plus PPC campaigns can compliment your SEO campaign by giving you real time keyword research right in front of you!
Constant adaptation is essential. Balancing SEO with other strategies is a forward-thinking approach. Keep it up!
Totally true. Now I recognize that it was my fault depending on Google and its crappy updates. There is a whole world outside of SEO. My site wasn't totally destroyed, it still makes some money so the best thing I can do is take advantage of the time to diversify my traffic sources. It is the most advisable.
Following the latest Google helpful content update, my website's traffic took a 40% hit. However, without making any changes, my site made a full recovery in just 15 days. I want to extend my gratitude to you for your video and the valuable information you provided.
My traffic tripled after the Helpful Content update, so I'm pretty happy with it.
Tell us more
Agree, please share more about what you think helped you.
I'll be honest, I don't really know. 2 weeks ago, my average position was 22-24, then on 09/17, my average position jumped to 9.4 and has pretty much stayed at 9-14 every day since. I've been following your videos for several months now, and I'm in the masterclass, but that was also months ago, and I haven't done anything different in the past 2 weeks that could explain it; so I am presuming it has something to do with the update.@@jessecunninghamv
My site has been fine, continuing to soar! I use AI to automate the tedious stuff and careful edit any AI content I generate and had handwritten posts too.
The AI posts tend to do really well with Featured Snippets I noticed.
my impressions went from 100 to 1000 in this update!
You know what is weird about this update is I took about a 60% drop in traffic. Most of my articles had been sitting at the number 1 spot but dropped 5, 10, even 30 positions. Today most of my articles have moved back to number 1 or close to number 1. But my traffic has only increased by 16% this week over last week. I would have expected a larger increase. For now, I am just letting it ride. These updates can sometimes take a month to stabilize. I have also being seeing worthless articles or comments now ranking above my articles that provide the direct answer. I just started using A.I. to complement my writing, so I need to wait and see how those articles are going to do. I always add personalization to all my articles, including these new A.I. partially written articles that I am experimenting with.
My impression is AI sites have fared fairly well in this update.
Yep. All of my sites that have zero AI lost 50-60% of their traffic overnight. 4 sites in total. The 3 AI sites I've been building were unphased by the update. I'm going all in on AI.
...until the AI algo rolls out sometime in the future. Lol@@JoeMac1983
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Dude, Jesse. I am constantly blown away at how much value you constantly provide to the people. I am so grateful to have you as a such a wise and reliable resource. Much Love
Thank you 🚀🚀🚀
Good video, Jesse.
From what I can see, a lot of traffic moves (especially with the question/answer) type articles lost rankings because of dropped snippets. Also, a lot forums that fell out of favor a few years ago, regained their rankings. Thus removing question/answer articles.
With that drop, lots of articles that were interlinked to the dropped articles also lost rankings.
What you explained about easy accessable articles based on link depth I agree with.
The drink on the edge of your desk was making me nervous. It was right beside your elbow and you were moving your arms around. 😀
Same 😂
I can not believe Google is giving people the answers to their questions before they get to the websites and blogs. That's deliberate.
Here is how to recover from last update: report a search result that does not match the search intent anymore, and it did before the update rolled out. You can report it by clicking on the 3 points next to the search result, scroll down and write the feedback. Google takes this feedback very serious. It says more to them than user data. Also, make as many people as possible do the same! Spread the words on your friends, communities and reactions and we will have the update rolled back!
"Google takes feedback serious?" 😂
@@aiseowizard yes, they read those reports
That's proactive! Never realized Google took feedback so seriously.
Build a brand. Build multiple portal sites that link to each other and market different products and services. Add blogging to these specific hubs and build an audience of your dream customers. Or just chase an algorithm that is based in the past and can change quickly.
Good word
Found your post interesting to watch. I can't wait to see your new videos soon. Good Luck with the upcoming update. This RUclips channel is very informative and effective.
Correct me if I’m wrong, because I’m no expert, but does this kill silo structured websites then?
No it doesn’t - all of my websites are silo structured to a degree
Thanks for this an eye-opening episode! How do you think AI-generated content will continue to impact SEO, and what key strategies should website owners prioritize for success in this changing landscape?
I think AI content works if done right and heightens the barrier to entry to be successful now
Worth a watch!👏
The final words of encouragement are incredibly supportive. Thank you!
Many of my site's keywords dropped significantly from October 7th. However, I notice that many of my competitors have not fallen so much, and are actually recovering the curve. Does this have to do with the new Google updates? Can it influence in different ways to other sites? Or could it be because of the current content?
Most likely the HCU
Those last words are so supportive thank you!
What intrigues me after this update is that both the click rate and the impression rate dropped a lot, but the keyword position dropped a little, around 2 positions.
Everyone is still observing and figuring out what happened + what's next. Keep us updated
@@jessecunninghamv Nice video but what are the real take aways here? Thanks. Just write ( or get AI to write) tonnes of articles around a very narrow topic with minimal editing?
Love the Hitchhikers Guide!
Philodendron fill-o-den-dron. I know. Tacky comment. Couldn't resist.
I have a question about the autoblogging directly from the ai writers to post directly to WP. When I do that, since I use Thrive Themes in most of my sites... this feature doesn't work, since it posts to the WP editor and not to my designed with thrive area. And for the sites we are using simple WP editor, we still have to go in to edit the formatting, etc. Do you have a workaround you are using for this? I see you are using elementor which is almost like thrive.
hey man, whats the name of the 'generic' site where you can buy domains? you said you bought it for 2k but didnt mention the site, cheers
www.expireddomains.net
my website was hit last year. i hired a developer to rebrand my website and it started picking up and then it tanked again with this update to 75% loss again. how do i recover?
tons of variables - no clue w/o looking at your site
My site crashed after the august update, but recovered after this update
How do you reduce the cost of retrieval Jesse?? Topical authority is enough?
Site structure. Interlink your relevant articles well. Try to make click depth from the homepage a maximum of 2-3 clicks to all of your articles.
Great answer
@@jessecunninghamv Thanks Jesse. Great vid btw!
See what I am seeing on my sites is that I do not do much seo. Yes I do the title tag ( keyword) and the h1 ,h2’s but that’s it. I do not optimise for search engines. I just write content that makes sense to my audience. I have seen plenty of well optimised content in my niche but it just doesn’t read right.
Great data even if from one site. I've seen somewhat similar in whatever "tight" siloed / hubs, but have kept them generally smaller. Only 5-7 articles around each "top tier" article. How are you deciding how many articles go into the (for example) Philodendron hub?
Nowadays with how affordable AI content is, I do as many as possible.
@@jessecunninghamv Thanks for the reply
Can you please expand on $1 per article? What tools are you using? Thanks!
I use WordGalaxy.ai and SEOWriting.ai
@@jessecunninghamv thank you!
I do a lot of AI images and prompting in MidJourney, Leonardo, Dall-e, etc. But NONE of them can do people's hands anatomically correct most of the time. Also, they have a long ways to go on cats. I have several niche blogs in cat niches, and ai is terrible with their paws and tails, lol! I take all my own photos of my cats. I think there are specific images that also require human taken photos. The other niche I am in is real estate niches, I am a realtor too, and build SEO for realtors too. You have to take your own photos of homes or you won't convert because buyers want to see the photos of the real houses in the neighborhoods. So it is all relative:) I do other niches where it doesn't matter and I try to do all AI images.
It makes me crazy how you wave your arms around so close to your beverage, I keep thinking that’s going to end up on your floor or all over your keyboard 😂
If I ever do accidentally knock it over, I will definitely keep that footage for the evidence. So far, so good!
This video is full of gold. I came to see what you were going to say about the Google Update, but now you sparked something in me :). One question I do have, most of my sites I just launch on WordPress... but are you running a non-wordpress site (like just pure html site)? That would be so much faster to pop out websites like that.
Thanks! I’m glad it’s an encouraging video - that’s always a goal. I only do WP websites.
@@jessecunninghamv I guess the .html files in the sitemap is what was throwing me off. I saw you use Yoast and I'm like wait a minute :). I have been following a while, I have all of my tools ready, now it's time to attack!
What is that gold? I am not sure what to take away from this to be honest.
@@olddouchebag for me it kind of helped clear up content clusters or silos.. or whatever the new trendy word is. So going for main keyword, then have other articles with long-tail of that keyword then pointing to it. It gave me some insight into how I interlink. I also study black hat techniques, but don't employ them and this confirmed some of my research talking about the UGC mammoth sites. My sites have been on an upwave ever since this update came out. Good luck!
@@93cutty From what I see looking at search results, keeping it simple is best. Get straight to the point and no messing about. In the past people were writing long blog posts to "show" authority and depth. They had long intro paragraphs and lots of unnecessary fluff. The answer to your question was invariably at the bottom of the page. Very annoying. Now with the advent of Chat GPT there is competition to give the answer faster. Pages at the top of search results have the answer at the top of the page or an incredibly simple and easy to digest layout. So that's what I'm going for. Actually it's better for us. Just answer the question and make it very clear. Far less need to pad out articles to get noticed by the the search engine. To be honest I think this video is trying to game the system and this technique will soon enough be useless. I'm not taking it seriously.
1. Never read hitchhiker's guide. I read very little fiction, but I've read more self-help and business books than I care to count. :)
2. I was hit in this update, but I definitely agree it's a good thing. I believe it will thin the herd. The people who were new bloggers or just followed the Income School model of creating content have gotten crushed. I think we're getting to a place where people who are successful will need to implement quality SEO tactics.
As AI gets better and better, the gap between those who understand how to leverage the tools and those who don't will just continue to expand.
This update wrecked niche sites like a mutha
Jesse, when are You going to launch course for auto blogging?
🤷♂️
I do AI avalanche technique and going even stronger now 👏👏👏
Good luck man
Great video, some great points, but I don't think your website is a good example of how to survive HCU. Not because the website or content isn't good, but because the content is pretty new and it just started ranking. I barely see sites with the majority of the content being
Great point! This update is definitely hit or miss and me showing one website is just to show one website - it's not conclusive - not by any means - I have so many friends in this space who are better at SEO than me - and their websites got hit....so go figure - I have older websites that are still unfazed - but oftentimes they have been service based or product based business (real businesses), but then again - I've seen those types of businesses slammed too - my current focus is dominating tiny sectors of a niche, lowering Google's cost of retrieval, and rinse and repeat - all expedited with AI. I hope this helps.
@@jessecunninghamv Sure mate I agree with you :) Yea it's still hard to tell what works and what are we doing wrong haha.
Great video, now lets talk about how Google now shows images, if it's an item For Sale it will be shown 1st, if Not, your image may not be shown at all. sigh.
Are you talking about intent? Purchase intent versus informational?
Kind of off topic but what are your thoughts on writesonic for content creation compared to ChatGPT and Claude
Never used it
Is bonsai Mary going to be monetized?
Not for a while
Great content. Previous links of Bonsai Mary was http or https? Did you do redirect 301?
I think I have a force on the server side to https regardless
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Exactly. Thank you for this.