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Re:CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Googl... by olalonde on Thursday August 10, 2023 @12:00AM (#37071790)
Maybe not related to the age of the content but more content can definitely penalize you. I recently added a sitemap to my site, which increased the amount of indexed pages, but it caused a massive drop in search traffic (from 500 clicks/day to 10 clicks/day). I tried deleting the sitemap, but it didn't help unfortunately.
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Re:CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Googl... by graeme on Thursday August 10, 2023 @12:36AM (#37072006)
How many pages are we talking about here?
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Re:CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Googl... by olalonde on Thursday August 10, 2023 @01:38AM (#37072368)
100K+. Mostly AI and user generated content. I guess the sudden increase in number of indexed pages prompted a human review or algorithm which flagged my site as AI generated? Not sure.
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Re:CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Googl... by rightbyte on Thursday August 10, 2023 @09:25AM (#37075859)
Ye. I am flabbergasted by people that are gaslighting people into not being "superstitious" about Google's ranking.
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