How Google Is Trying To End Bloggers

[ghostofseo]

Watched this video last night. Seems exactly the sort of things I'm dealing with. Perhaps you too?

About a blogger that went from $25k a month to not much. Is Mediavine to blame...

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Google is getting it wrong as of late.

Even Berry's last video hinted at this. We are all in for a long ride together. Hopefully you have the resources to weather the storm

[EditorialGuy]

Ms. Hanes's experience doesn't mean that Google is "trying to end bloggers," it just means that the algorithm's changes didn't work in her favor. She may also have been a victim of Google's increasingly cluttered UX, which gives short shrift to traditional organic search results.

I also wonder how much of her audience has been sucked away by YouTube.

[YasirAgha]

Probably you are right, and the end results are that many bloggers lose their websites after the latest update in March 2024. However, it is a challenge for the bloggers to improve their content quality instead of blaming search engine algorithms.

[Edge]

$25K monthly on 400,000 monthly page views is suspect..(evidence needed).

[tangor]

The great percolator (all the content on the web) is always boiling. Something always changes. Blogs first, Social Media, YouTube, Insta and more keep changing the landscape. The human being is easily distracted by most value for least time and attention.

At some future time things will even out and true niches (styles) of presentation will find their own. Meanwhile, G, in search of the mighty dollar, keeps tweaking the algos to juice the machine and everyone in a while get things wrong.

OTOH, the heyday of big payouts on the web has come and gone. The advertizing/income pie is only so big every year and more people are trying to get a slice. Something has got to give and it will be in the bottom line. Things will EVENTUALLY break "small", "medium" and "large" with an unknown "x" amount in each slot. Where your website falls into those categories will be determined by CONTENT, CONTENT, CONTENT.

[ghostofseo]

tangor, agreed - CONTENT, CONTENT, CONTENT.

[ethanhenry]

Google is changing the landscape for bloggers by allowing AI-generated content and emphasizing quality over human-generated content, impacting independent publishers and bloggers who rely on SEO for traffic.