August 2024 Core Update [Early Findings] - Don't Believe The BS

[@pauljones5476]

Greg, this is serious knowledge balls you're dropping. There's plenty of people on KZbin providing information on SEO which isn't based on solid data, or even their own data. I'm watching as many videos that you can produce. Your intel will help me to help others. Your videos are exactly what this industry needs. I'll continue to keep watching and learning your stuff. I appreciate the time and good will you keep providing. Thank you. I look forward to the next video. Keep them rolling off the press. 😊

[@OMGAcademyOfficial]

Appreciate that Paul!

[@Answerbase]

During the August 2024 update we've seen the largest gains specifically to Q&A landing pages on our customers sites, where businesses are simply answering customer questions effectively to satisfy the customer's informational needs (regardless of the length of the answer, which Google has communicated regularly they don't care about and seems to hold true). Before the updates on average those Q&A landing pages were responsible for about 9% of our customer's organic traffic. If the recent lift sustains, the Q&A (powered by Answerbase) could be responsible for somewhere between 25% and 45% of our customer's overall traffic. It's all about supporting the customer's information needs well....and publishing that (when appropriate) to service searchers as well.

[@ready-to-gomovers8081]

Thank you, Greg. You are our beacon in G Bs updates. I hope devs run a small sample test first and then apply to the whole G ecosystem.

[@erickracedo4369]

As long as I’ve known Greg, he’s pointed out that backlinks are important in almost every update, and he’s been right every time!

[@OMGAcademyOfficial]

🤝

[@deepakkhanna3504]

Thanks Greg, Awesome video...Maybe its a trap by Google to reward sites with more anchor text links and more & more Seos will follow and then Google will hit them in the next update...

[@OMGAcademyOfficial]

Sneaky G

[@prokassim]

Again Greg thanks for another great seo tutorial, is it possible for you to make a tutorial on local seo and how to rank for the same service in multiple location, and especially if using the same content (of course changing the city name ) is not considered as duplicat content ? thanks again for your time and effort.

[@CraigAndres]

I 💯 agree with you, Greg, in this video. Basics done well still work amazingly well 👍

[@OMGAcademyOfficial]

For sure!

[@Timereaver]

Hey Greg thanks for the video - just FYI your coupon code is not working on QGP. Says invalid just FYI.

[@OMGAcademyOfficial]

@@Timereaver first purchase?

[@Timereaver]

@@OMGAcademyOfficial No I guess its only one time use first purchase? Too bad there's not an ongoing coupon for this group though, maybe Costa would consider that :) Cheers.

[@timthompson5644]

Thanks Greg, Honest advice backed up with data, really appreciate your take on all this, I’ve a keen eye on my sites, but what you have shared, is backed up with my results too!

[@OMGAcademyOfficial]

Thanks for the additional input!

[@AaronParkerOz]

Totally agree about the ranking movements pre-rollout. My ranking went haywire about 2 weeks ago and then settled back down right before the rollout.

[@OMGAcademyOfficial]

Yep!

[@renobrecords]

I run a small blog, DR 17, and went from 4k visitors per day, to 300.. I'm crushed. We don't run ads, focus on UX, and compile a lot of original research. I'm not really any SEO. Is it too early to try to recover? Any thoughts on where to begin to recover? Just found you channel and subbed for the straightforward advice.

[@OMGAcademyOfficial]

@@renobrecords I’d have to see the site, but would be glad to analyze for you in a KZbin video. You’d have to list the site as site name dot com so KZbin allows the comment to go through

[@PropertysaviourUk]

Greg - what's the extension you are using that showing you backlinks in SERPs?

[@OMGAcademyOfficial]

@@PropertysaviourUk ahrefs toolbar

[@rweaver-eh1qn]

Another great on Greg thanks for your time and effort😎🤟👍

[@OMGAcademyOfficial]

My pleasure!

[@KeaKou]

Amazing insights Greg. Master of Observation.

[@OMGAcademyOfficial]

My man!

[@eltroito]

Thanks Greg for the in depth analysis! Totally makes sense and DATA always remains King 💯

[@OMGAcademyOfficial]

My pleasure!

[@stinapettersson-onlinebizz8659]

Thanks Greg, you’re amazing!

[@OMGAcademyOfficial]

Thanks Stina!

[@DonRoberts1]

Greg has been spot-on since the early OMG days...

[@OMGAcademyOfficial]

Thank you sir

[@r.l.saunders5286]

Only a matter a time before nothing ranks and it is completely pay to play (if Google has their way).

[@peterturner5690]

Thank you!

[@OMGAcademyOfficial]

Welcome!

[@mateialexandru6212]

Greg do you know if the lenght of the domain name affects the seo?

[@OMGAcademyOfficial]

Mmm, no concrete evidence either way, but I’d say no as a guess. Although I’d never use a really long domain

[@paulneal2961]

Really good video dude. Thank you 🙏

[@OMGAcademyOfficial]

Glad you liked it!

[@snackmoney9355]

I was wondering your thoughts on this new core update

[@OMGAcademyOfficial]

You got them!

[@kevinmiole]

what is the name of the plugin to show DR?

[@pauljones5476]

@@kevinmiole The DR that Greg shows in the video isn't a plugin. Its one of the features in ahrefs, which is a paid subscription. It's under the heading Backlinks.

[@OMGAcademyOfficial]

Ahrefs toolbar

[@susanjohnson6276]

What's all this modern talk about 'entities'? Remember the old seo days of 2017 when a decent entity could be removed with a simple exorcism?

[@OMGAcademyOfficial]

lol, I get what you’re saying!

[@king_cj]

Lol, eco friendly products is in top 10 most competitive niches. Im such an idiot when created a site in this niche and hoped to rank with almost no budget for bl 😂😂😂

[@OMGAcademyOfficial]

We all have done it!

[@GolferGeeks]

I'm up around 500%

[@OMGAcademyOfficial]

My man!

[@yeahright3647]

💪

[@OMGAcademyOfficial]

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