The Fall of Stack Overflow

Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow by johnny_reilly on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @06:42AM (#36860416)

Again anecdotal, but I lost the majority of my SEO traffic late last year around the time of a core update. I've spent the best part of a year attempting to repair it, on the assumption I'd committed some heinous SEO crime. The more time that passes, I'm starting to think that the issue isn't mine so much as Google's. It's baffling. I wrote about it here:

https://johnnyreilly.com/how-i-ruined-my-seo

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Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow by DeusExMachina on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @07:22AM (#36860698)

Looking at your post and the HN discussion, I am also of the same impression.

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Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow by slashdev on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @09:18AM (#36861758)

I don’t see what you did wrong, it must have been the algorithm change. My parents had a business that was killed by a Facebook algorithm change. Building a business around any of the big tech companies seems very risky.

I think Google search has just declined a lot. I guess they’re losing the constant cat and mouse game with SEO. It seems worse than it has ever been, I’m relying more on ChatGPT and copilot now.

I can only imagine that LLMs will be the end of any content based search ranking. I don’t know how they’ll adapt to that.

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Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow by verteu on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @11:59AM (#36864306)

Maybe Google (semi/permanently?) penalized your domain when spammers started using your GA4 tag?

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Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow by johnny_reilly on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @04:57AM (#36874819)

Gosh that would suck. Sounds plausible though

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