Okay, is this what you’ve ALL been waiting for?
You're NOT gonna like it!!
Hahahahhahahahahhahaha!
But, I’m not here to BS you, put a positive spin on things, or try to convince you to use outdated practices.
Of course, there is a way forward from what has been going on with Google for the last few months, BUT, the following are things that you should be aware of.
These are “talking points”, so please get involved, ask questions, provide opinions, etc.
Just know, NOTHING stays the same forever.
Plus, for those of you talking about “recovery”, you only need to worry about “recovery” if your entire business model is focused on ranking in Google (a terrible idea in 2024 and moving forward).
A website that has been” hit” can still be hugely successful (just so you know, one of my “hit websites” received 91,238 visitors in April 2024… with a grand total of 724 visitors from Google!! Hahahahahah!! F U Google, LOL).
Here goes… time to get “chatting”
(btw, it wwouldn’t be me if I’d proofread this and fixed any errors, hahahaha!! How else am I gonna wind u Old Fluff? LOL!!)
Talking Points
1. In order to rank for ANY keyword in Google, the domain upon which you place that content needs to have some “authority”.
2. If your sole business model is “finding longtail keywords”, writing articles to place on your website, then don’t expect much from Google.
3.If your business model is mainly aimed at getting Google traffic, then don’t expect much from Google.
4. Google has said for years, “write for people, NOT for search engines”.
5. This PROVES the two points above are TRUE, i.e. if you;re doing “longtail keyword research” with the sole purpose of ranking your articles in Google, then you are WRITING FOR SEARCH ENGINES.
6. If you lost the majority of your GOOGLE traffic in August 2022, December 2022, March 2023, September 2023, March 2024 you have had an “algorithmic penalty” placed on your website. This is different from a manual action. A manual action means your website has been manually reviewed by a human and they’ve decide that as a whole your website is spammy and unhelpful or you have tried to manipulate rankings.
7. Anyone who got “hit” during a “Helpful Content Update” has had a “sitewide classifier” added to their domain. It is highly unlikely that you will rank in Google for any NEW content until that classifier has been removed. This could take YEARS.
8. The “page-by-page classifier”, in MY MIND, was solely for large authority brands and websites who had previously manipulated Google through “parasite SEO”. As an example, Forbes, Sports Illustrated, and Outlook India had created specific subdomains for affiliate marketing and allowed people to pay money to write their affiliate articles to be placed on these sites. The 3 websites mentioned above either removed their “manipulative subdomains”, e.g. vouchers affiliate marketing, best casinos affiliate marketing, etc. or had them removed by Google on May 5th. The rest of their website remained untouched (still ranking, producing traffic and income, i.e. page-by-page classifier works for these BIG websites.
9. Websites that don’t appear to be a real business, i.e. websites solely created with content based on longtail keywords in order to generate affiliate income or ad revenue, were hit hardest over the last 9 months.
10. Many SEOs are currently trying to make their “hit” websites look like “real businesses” by adding an ecommerce element to their website, or even creating tools that would be useful to their target audience (no feedback yet as to whether this is working, it’s too early to tell).
11. Blackhat techniques from over a decade ago appear to be working. Here’s a list and the potential costs for doing these. Clickthrough rate manipulation ($30-$100), blog comment spam backlinks ($20-$150), even though this is spam, it appears that the User Generated Content aspect of blog comments from high DA/DR websites is pushing websites higher in the SERPs, Republishing articles at bulk on the most recent date ($0-$30/month). If interested in any of the above, just ask me, I can do these for you.
12. All websites should have “foundational backlinks”, which is mainly made up of profiles at social media platforms and web 2.0 properties. This will cost either $19, $32, or $49 for a ONE-TIME FEE (once more, if interested, ask me, I can do these for you). However, interestingly, these foundational backlinks which are on high DA websites, you might actually find that you can place very short articles on these and rank in the SERPs. For an example, Google search - Unlock Your Glutes Review - This is a product I reviewed about 4 years ago, ranked either position 1 or 2 until from 2020-2022, and just from this one product I made around $15,000 during that time. You can now see Flickr ranking on page one for this keyword. Flickr is a web 2.0 photo-sharing platform, the “article” ranking on page on for this keyword is less than 500 words and just has the product image (so, getting your foundational backlinks not only helps with creating your online brand, but you could actually “parasite” of many of these platforms to rank in Google).
13. If you’re following a “no backlinks” method, you may as well not bother with Google anymore, do you honestly believe that a “longtail keyword article” from a low DA website is going to outrank a high DA website that “kinda” covers the subject, even if it’s incorrect?
14. “Foundational backlinks” are important for your brand name to appear all over the internet, this makes you look more like a “real business”.
15. If you want to rank WRITTEN content in Google currently, the best platforms are Linkedin Pulse, Medium, and Reddit.
16. Linkedin Pulse and Medium both took a slight “hit” in Feburary and March 2024, but are still performing well.
17. Reddit has been really hot of deleting spam since March 2024, so you can still parasite off Reddit, but you need to “slowly” build up your account first, aim for 1,000 larma points for BOTH posts and comments BEFORE “promoting” (this could easily take 4-6 weeks of regularly comments and posting WITHOUT any links… but f you see this through, Reddit can be a goldmine by minth 3).
18. In order to rank content via Linkedin Pulse, Medium, or Reddit you can actually use “spammy backlinks”. If you send “spammy backlinks” to your main website you’ll get slapped by Google, they know these have been manipulated because you suddenly go from zero backlinks or just your own social media backlinks per month, to suddenly receiving 1000s in a month←-this is why you get slapped by Google. Linkedin, Reddit, and Medium all have huge domain authority, therefore, they receive thousands of backlinks every single day, this is how you can “get away” with sending spammy backlinks to your articles published on these platforms, and it will help to improve your ranking (backlinks for Linkedin/Reddit/Medium articles are $15, $30, or $50… once more, speak to me, I can do these for you).
19. CURRENTLY (it may change), a good affiliate marketing business model, which mainly involves WRITING content - get 150 articles on your website asap (just in case you think you;re working hard, many people are doing this within a mointh), have an email signup and a prewitten newsletter (at least 10 emails to get started), and a “lead magnet”, get your foundational backlinks done for branding, import all your website articles to Medium, rewrite slightly and place on Linkedin, get involved on Reddit, no promotion for your first month, and once you have the 1,000 and 1,000 post and comment karma, create a subreddit to add your rewritten content. It is likely that your Medium/Linkedin/Reddit content will rank higher than your website content (if ranking outside the top 3, you can use spammy backlinks to push these articles higher←-NEVER use spammy backlinks on your main site), your main website traffic will come from Linkedin/Medium/Reddit, but the “Authority” from these articles may eventually increase your own website’s authority, thus pushing you higher in the SERPs.
20. Google is fine with AI content, Google is not fine with regurgitated AI writer content that does not provide any ADDITIONAL VALUE to what is in the SERPs. “Adding your own voide” to an article that says exactly the same as 1,000,000 other articles already indexed and ranking is NOT WHAT GOOGLE WANTS. You will get nowehere ever with Google.
21. If you;re going to talk to me about “it works”, “I’m ranking” in Google, you need to have at least 150 articles on your site and at least 500 visitors per day from Google, otherwise IT DOES NOIT WORK & your “rankings” MEAN NOTHING (I’m sorry, I know many of us have been “trained” for “little wins”, and also “trained” for “its a marathon not a sprint”, but come on!!! Would a REAL BUSINESS be happy with less than 100 visitors per month and making about $50/month?)
22. Social media traffic may not be “as good as Google traffic”, but this is the “new normal”, either “pivot” or get out of the game.
23. If you’re website has been “hit” and you’ve lost all motivation for it, then you can try one of two things (which will work in the short term, but Google may eventually catch up with you, this could be the next algorithm update, or perhaps 2.5.10 years down the line). Firstly, if you;ve given up on a “hit” site, get a new domain, then find all the articles that were ranking well BEFORE you got hit, rewrite slightly and add to new website, then deindex the original article from the “hit” site. Just be aware that if your content was all “longtail keyword based at an attempt to rank in Google”, you’re new site will eventually get “hit” again.
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24. Mass-produced AI content was “hit” during the recent spam update, but just to show that most people don’t “think big enough”, this is applicable to those who are producing 100 articles per day, 10,000 articles per month. You can “get away” with 10-20 AI articles per day. You may eventually get “hit” by Google, but I guarantee that your content will rank in Bing. Let’s say per article ranking well in Bing brings in 10 visitors per month, for decent income generation, let’s say you want 30,000 visitors per month, that’s 3,000 articles you need to get published on your site, this will take you5-10 months to achieve, PLUS, if you get “hit” by Google, you’re not as worried, as you’re ranking in Bing, so just carry on producing 10-20 AI articles per day.25. If you want get down and really dirty and REALLY, REALLY, REALLY Blackhat with a website that has been “hit”, get at least 500 articles on that website (go to a few websites in your niche, go to their homepage, type /sitemap.xml after the domain name, copy and paste all the urls, get AI to write them). Then pay for DA/DR manipulation (between $100-$250 for DA 50 - DA70), then sell backlinks (guest posts or niche edits) for your site via somewhere like Fiverr or Upwork (not very ethical, but as an example, a niche edit on a DA50 website, especially a RELEAVNT website to your niche could easily cost around $75-$150. You sell them for half that price, one sale a day and I’m sure you’ll feel a lot better (once more, as dirty as this is, speak to me, and I can help you do this).
26. Ranking NUMBER ONE in Google in 2024 for a “transactional”, “commercial”, or “navigational” keyword in 2024 is probably the equivalent of ranking NUMBER SEVEN in 2020 (you are now below, AI results, Shopping Ads, PPC Ads, YouTube Carousel). Ranking NUMBER ONE in 2020 saw an average 31% clickthrough rate, whereas ranking NUMBER SEVEN in 2020 saw an average 3% clickthrough rate, Therefore, in a keyword had a search volume of 1,000, you could expect 310 visitors to your website for ranking number one and 30 visitors to your website for ranking number 7. Ranking NUMBER ONE IN 2024 FOR THE SAME KEYWORD means you can only expect around 30 visitors per month. Are you starting to understand that putting the majority of your time into “writing longtail keyword articles” may not be worth your time? (especially if that content is being placed on a website with “low authority”.
27. Is there any point talking about SGE, Gemini, AI results in Google? This is simply scraping the internet and rewriting and placing at the top of the SERPs. What difference does this really make to you if you’re NOT currently ranking in position 1 (2 to 3 at worst)? Absolutely none.
Let’s talk about these (more to come next week)
, when i first read it I assumed they were real people but then I started thinking about how you all work and thought I should check as you seem to have ways around everything. I am actually a little bit disappointed now as was hoping you were going to share your new AI assistants with us 