Yes, this how SEO should work and after the HCU, this is the way to do SEO as Google has increased the weight of site metrics (likely NSR) to the point where a hybrid model is highly beneficial if you have a content site.

@@On-page Are you talking about new sites or content-only sites that were hit by HCU? I haven't heard of any content-only sites recovering from HCU unless they do a full site migration/redirect.

@@On-page # Simplified example (not real code) def calculate_personal_site_score(website): score = 0 # Check for signals of a small personal site if is_new_domain(website) and has_few_backlinks(website) and is_personal_content(website): score += 10 # Base score for being a small personal site # Add points for positive factors score += get_content_freshness_score(website) score += get_user_engagement_score(website) score += get_content_quality_score(website) return score def rank_websites(websites): # Sort websites based on a combination of factors, including personal site score websites.sort(key=lambda website: (calculate_personal_site_score(website), get_main_ranking_score(website)), reverse=True) return websites

Thanks

They state that they collect the data in Chrome and Android's term of service and said they used user signals in the recent DOJ trial. Google engineers and employees have been saying to "make the users happy" and testing has shown it impacts rankings. I suppose the only way to get more proof is if we were to get the source code.

Yeah exactly, if you read the report, I cover exactly that... and how the odds are stacked against you. I'd be focusing on informational gain and creating a resource that can improve overall site user engagement to be able to compete.

Happy to hear that!

It's not job loss, it's just job change. AI creates new jobs as it makes old boring jobs easier.

I'm showing a collection of different sites, showing sites that are successful and sites that aren't successful. I'm not entirely sure how you want me to do this. Do you want to only look at sites that are performing well? Or perhaps do you want to only see sites being penalized? Are you against having a video that shows both types of sites (rewarded and penalized?). I never claim that the site that you see at 28 seconds is the same as the site as 40 seconds (it's not). Nor do I say: "This is a recovery! Look at this!" Instead, I'm saying I want you to go from a penalized site to a site that's being rewarded. Bait and switch would be showing one thing and then presenting another. This is: "Do you want to be in group A (penalized one) or do you want to be in group B (rewarded group).

Perhaps you can read the report. I refuse to believe you can go through it and feel that way.

I'm presenting the data we've accumulated and seen throughout the month of March and April. I also explain that it's likely that it's not 'over yet' for 2 reasons: The first is that link changes take a very long time to fully roll out as one link node affects the score of a subsequent link node. The second is that they announced a rollout on May 5th of a second part to address parasite SEO.

I'm presenting all my data (including charts, changes we've already seen), research and theories based on the changes we've seen throughout the month of March and April. The full written report is being updated as things change.

The March 2024 Core Update wrapped up on April 19.

@Movut true, but at the time I viewed the video, it hadn't been announced that it was finished. When they announced it, they said the roll out had finished a week earlier yet it wasn't made public knowledge/officially announced until just a few days ago.

As I mention multiple times in the full report.

@@On-page So why are you advising people on recovering from something that is not finished rolling out? Why not just wait a couple more weeks?

@@blackholesupersloth3276 The March 2024 Core Update wrapped up on April 19.

@@Movut And?

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.

This is always possible. Every day millions of new keywords are being created. For example, the keyword: "march core update" didn't exist last month. Now? There are dozens and dozens of keywords derived from it, for example "march core update recovery", "march core update eric lancheres", "march core update ai", "can you recover from the march core update", And there are likely 100s more just for the march core update! You can do that with any topic, news event, anything!

True, I have a week old blog and with an article I'm already in position 6 in the SERP. It's a super niche keyword that hopefully will grow

On-page.ai (I developed it over the past 4-5 years and it uses Google's NLP to process entities so we get the best idea of what Google really thinks about our content).

That's true, generic low quality AI sites ARE being penalized. You can read the full report where I show the exact data. This isn't a hidden thing here... I'm publishing all my research/data. However, high quality content (regardless of if an AI or a human wrote it), is still ranking just fine. Almost all sites have some level of AI and Google cares about the user experience... and not how the content was written. (Otherwise we wouldn't have several full AI sites increasing in traffic after the March Core update) I have been a big advocate of quality content and warning people about generic, low quality AI content for almost a year now. There's a HUGE difference between using AI to spam the web and using AI to create amazing content. I use it to create amazing content and then monitor/measure the engagement levels.

You obviously don't know this "guy" or you wouldn't be making such a comment. Oh, and I've got two featured snippets for a law firm website in the last 48 hours using ai content. Quality ai content.

We've used AI content for several of our sites. And they showed a hundred percent growth. AI content is not the problem. The problem is the approaches that not very smart people are using.

Lol nice "story" I'm link builder we analyze 10000s of them 80% went down People had millions traffic per month down to 0 over night;)

I mean there is some truth to engagement. For example, just scrolling on the page reading content isn't enough. Adding some interactive features like calculator, slider, comparison table.... maybe needed.

Google processes the query with AI to understand what the user wants so if you enter a long tail keyword, it won't always show results from pages with that exact match and instead, it will show pages covering that topic. In fact, it's not uncommon for Google to show pages that don't even contain the words from the query... as long as it thinks it's relevant and it's what the user wants. This doesn't invalidate anything as you still need to write unique content on a site that Google sees as valuable.

@@On-page I understand what you're saying and you're rightcon how Google works but I was making the point that the past 2 major updates have targeted blog sites that have no authority other than Google (as you mentioned) to the point that even if you create content that has no competition Google rather serve the other sites instead of your page that answers the query directly. So Google in my opinion intentionally deepmhasizes more relevant answers and prioritizes authority and brand. So maybe if you try to create new keyword it will work with brand new sites but with sites that Google has deemed as blog sites I think it's a long shot

but mad respect for all the testing you've been doing i even subscribed to your tool for a month. thank u

You don't need to. Why do you want to analyze no-data. Focus on building more content keeping HCU guidelines in mind.

20% thats it? you beat the HCU, most sites are 80%+ loss my man