The September 2023 helpful content update is rolling out with an improved classifier. It will take about two weeks to complete. We'll update our ranking release history page when the rollout is complete: status.search.google.com/products/rGHU1…
Our help page about the helpful content system has new guidance about hosting third-party content and more explanation on what to do after a helpful content system update (perhaps you don't need to do anything, or perhaps self-assess your content): developers.google.com/search/updates…
@googlesearchc Here's an idea: what if you stopped and took a deep breath in-between updates?
@googlesearchc Okay, no problem. I don't get any hit from Google updates for my own strategies...
@googlesearchc Perfect, travel to 12 countries in a year, take 40,000 photos and write about my experience and expertise only to lose 60% of my traffic because my content isn’t helpful enough. Sweet.
@googlesearchc Just one day or week without something changing. Please.
@googlesearchc This is a crap update. Because every human writing site is 50-70% dropped. Authentic information sites have also dropped massively. Is this update an improvement or a degradation? At least 95% bloggers sites are down. It is not a proper update.
@googlesearchc Lots of talk about EEAT but removed the 'written BY people' and websites still clearly using AI and stock photos are ranking first. 😂
@googlesearchc I thought the top priority for Google was to serve the search intent. Apparently, I was wrong. This "helpful" update has messed up the search intent by ranking high authority sites with low relevance on the top of the SERPs. I can only hope this is temporary.
@googlesearchc Ummm google, you just broke google.. we followed your rules and you slapped us in the face. Start following your own rules. You’re promoting rubbish websites, how is that helpful?
@googlesearchc This helpful content update is hammering a lot of legit sites which have been publishing good content and is resulting in loss of impressions on SERPs and traffic. I along with many are experiencing this. youtube.com/watch?v=1_efAv…
@googlesearchc 4 months without an update, now 2 within 1 month. Making up for lost time I see
@googlesearchc Just like Covid.. A new variant every week
@googlesearchc What does fresh means according to google? If it's not updating the old content or adding new content. @JohnMu @rustybrick
@googlesearchc @searchliaison You should just call this the "We Love Reddit and Quora" content update.
@googlesearchc How much does a company have to pay Google for their webpages to be ranked high by the algorithm?
@googlesearchc @DigitalVK @parthsuba77 we almost discussed this same thing couple of spaces back, Google making changes to its systems before actual shopping season start. Don't know what will happen to affiliate sites preparing for that shopping period.
@googlesearchc So a pizza recipe that starts with 16 paragraphs on the history of pizza will be downranked?
@googlesearchc @searchliaison Every update promotes spammy redirects (only you need to have an edu redirect & can do parasite SEO), low quality forums, first page is filled up with short videos from TikTok and Youtube. I mean Is this how new search engines will look like?
@googlesearchc is this update target AI generated content hosting on the website?
@googlesearchc this new classifier is backward; it is really not rewarding helpful content, the page that actually has the content, but big websites having the title with partial content, or others that posted the title first (incomplete content and later copying). we work, and others get it
@googlesearchc traffic, earnings went down by 60-70% in 2 days. I don't whether this is due to September 2023 helpful content update.
@googlesearchc From core update into helpful update...no time to rest!
@googlesearchc @googlesearchc I'd brave a rush hour traffic jam, on a unicycle, wearing a suit made entirely of Velcro, with 'Friday' by Rebecca Black on infinite loop, if it could clarify wtf you guys are doing behind the scenes
@googlesearchc I think this update broke the internet…