Not that they still "get" to me, but what the heck are they still doing? hahahahaha. One day I'm no good, the next day they're like : 'ok, girl, just keep writing though, I think we still need to scrape your site for our AI-overview" - lol!
[attach]1238[/attach]Lol, there was the latest Google update, 13 March to 27 March. No idea what it was targeting, though!
@diane I think nobody knows any more lol. Still going up at the moment. the only reason I still login to gsc is to see if it mentions any 404 errors left, cause apparently I still haven’t completely fixed that when switching a plugin. 
So, people, this might lure out Partha from wherever he is hiding hahahaha
I think he was always very interested in the way Google works, and can't imagine he just dropped everything like that, but who knows! (Partha, if you read this, sorry about all that happened and I hope all is ok!)
Anyways, you might have heard about the next Google updates (yeah they still do this lol), or not, which I get, because you know: Google isn't your friend hahaha, and most of us got scr**ed by them.
So I was doubting for a while to ask this, but are you 'suddenly' seeing traffic rising again in Google search console too? (that is, if you haven't sold your site after 2 years now, which I totally get)
I am carefully positive, the first days I was like: 'yeah, whatever'. But now the trend keeps growing. For over 6 months, I was constantly around 200 clicks per day (from Google allone), but since about 10 days now, it has almost doubled to 400 per day.
Anybody else seeing this?
[attach]1246[/attach]Also, what could be a huge gamechanger for me, is that now, there's a new section in GSC where it mentions the particular for of 'search appearance', which includes forum discussions.
[attach]1247[/attach]When I click on that, look what happened since July 2nd!
[attach]1248[/attach]I had a chat with ChatGpt about this, and it looks like Google , finally, somehow 'recognized' that my forum is real discussion forum. Although I already had traffic to the forum ( even more than to my actual blogposts, which I always found so weird), it somehow now 'appreciates' my discussion forum , and takes it more seriously.
If you followed along with Google's updates a bit, you might have noticed how Google prioritized forums (reddit, fb groups, even Quora still) since a particular update (don't remember the date of that update)
I asked here if I should somehow 'fake' interaction on my forum, but I only did that once, with 1 email adres. In the meantime,one other person introduced himself on my forum, which seemed non-spammy and so I allowed it and responded to. Were those 2 the 'trigger' for Google to finally recognize that my forum is 'active'? I honestly have no darn clue, as ever hahahaha
Anyway, I am - carefully - optimistic: I know, I've been there before lol
Let's see what the next weeks will bring, because I am also reading stuff about AI taking over search completely in the near future.
But, I still see lots of my posts ranking that have NO AI-overview answer, simply because AI can't write DIY dollhouse tutorials, for example.
So the thing is to have Chat GPT also find out about things to write about that the AI overview won't be able to answer and write about that! preferably on your own forum- lol !
( I'd be so curious about what Partha would say about this, havent found anyone else on socials who'd be even remotely interested in this, not even the big GURUs, with their repetitive nonsense. Sorry, not sorry)
How about you, having any luck with Google these days?
Lizzy
Hey Lizzy,
That's great news you're seeing a bit more google love. I did read somewhere that this update might be correcting some of the wrongs they made last time to genuine, useful websites.
How they can tell the difference between well crafted AI content and human written, I don't know but they do have the largest dataset and resources out there, so if anyone can do it, google can.
I mentioned in another thread that I'm seeing a lot more lower DA domains on page one now so maybe they're mellowing their stance a bit.
I just logged into my GSC after, maybe, 6 months ... seems my website finally died a death in early May this year. 2 clicks in 3 months. Lol.
But then I've done zero work on the site for 9 months so not surprising really :-)
Anyway, congrats Lizzy ... keep plugging away and keep us posted!
@rohanm 
the Google overloads deindexed all 48 of my pages. Then sent a secondary email saying it was a mistake and for me to re-indexed them. If I could role my eyes harder I would
@keydah_keys they actually emailed you? wow, what a personal service hahahahaha . But yeah, Google works in mysterious ways
@rohanm seemed to have reached a plateau now, so we’ll see if it goes down again, but thanks
@ohnoo_not_her
Sounds good, Lizzy!
And, yeah, I totally think AI will dominate conventional search engines, and is probably already doing so with the younger generations.
I already do the majority of my online searches with AI
Rock On! 🤘
Frank 🎸
@ohnoo_not_her That’s what I was thinking Lizzy! I’ve never had a response from Google 
@keydah_keys did you have to manually resubmit your pages, or did they just re-index?
@ohnoo_not_her fingers crossed!
The update is over now (finished on July 17th) so things should settle over the next 2-4 weeks.
From SEO RT:
"This update seemed much more significant, with a lot of volatility and even a nice amount of reported partial recoveries from the old September 2023 helpful content update."
Here's the thread : https://www.seroundtable.com/google-june-2025-core-update-done-rolling-out-39779.html
@ohnoo_not_her I politely deleted the message. Like patience is zero with the bull crap! 48 pages deindex and Google wants me to fix it? Ill just move my little pages to Bing lol 
@rohanm no Google wants me to manually reindex each page. Ill move over to Microsoft Bing before I deal with Google again lol
@ohnoo_not_her yes they actually emailed me three times. Saying my pages had been de-indexed 1, then two that it was a mistake, then three that there was an error in indexing my pages. Man Google can walk off a cliff. They fired.
@rohanm yea i got three. I literally have no patience for this level of foolishness. 
@rohanm Hurt my little site then want to apologize, like what?! 
This aint no Stockholm Syndrome. You dont hit my little site and expect me to fix it and accept your apology. Get out of here with that Google you fired! 
@rohanm yeah, read it too! So it stabilized, and then today it went up again. Still not convinced hahaha. I’m trying not to let it have me obsessing over it, been there before, ugh.
@keydah_keys I can imagine! For my second niche, I’ve fired them a long time ago hahahaha. But my mini site seems to come back. I think it is because some of the tutorials and reviews and topics I have, can’t show up in AI overview. So I ‘might’ be one that survives (a bit lol) . Also e e-commerce sites seemed to survive and local SEO. But ALL of them lost a lot of traffic in the first place since HCU 2023, just not forums like Reddit, and sites like Forbes, those can still rank for about anything.It’s ugly .