Google filter on the website - I have been looking for a solution

[Oktavian]

Good morning, I have been looking for the reason for the Google filter (penalty) on my website for about 3 years. The website, with approximately 10,000 views per day, has been consistently falling in search results for years.

I have already looked for help on many websites and implemented most of the tips - unfortunately, it didn't help. I no longer have any conclusions or perspectives of my own - that's why I'm looking for help.

I am practically constantly developing the content, expanding it, updating it, and I have given up some links from strange websites. Nothing helps - the website constantly drops in results to almost zero.

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I try to write long and comprehensive content, generally doing it for the readers. But I have the impression that each new content added sinks this website more and more. No matter what I do, it doesn't get better, it just keeps going down and getting worse.

I have completely run out of ideas and hopes that she can be saved. I wouldn't like to move the site - because I don't even know the reason - which is the problem now. I have never done any Black SEO and such things as you can read about on Google guidelines.

I don't really know what's going on anymore, what else can be done. Maybe there's something causing it, I don't know what.

The filter does not manifest itself in the fact that the number of displays decreases. But also because the sites began to be indexed very slowly (many cannot be indexed at all), and ultimately other sites, even without content or with completely spammy or worthless content, rank higher for the same query. Even empty pages with one sentence can rank higher than in my case long articles that exhaust given issues. Even if my website has the only article on a certain topic - upon request, other websites on completely different topics will be displayed higher in Google results.

Until recently, some of my subpages were in the top 1, to maintain this, I expanded their content and updated it. All of them suddenly dropped to 8th - 15th place after a lot of added value and updates. This has completely drained me of energy.

If anyone has any tips, I would be very grateful.

[edited by: not2easy at 11:20 am (utc) on Mar 13, 2024]
[edit reason] Please see TOS [webmasterworld.com] [/edit]

[not2easy]

Hi Oktavian and welcome to WebmasterWorld [webmasterworld.com]

There are many thousands of people in the same situation today, there is no fix that can change what Google indexes or ranks, the serps have been in turmoil as business began using AI in more ways that do not seem to produce the desired results. The best we can do is to try to ensure we meet the technical standards of website creation and avoid changes that might appear to be efforts to manipulate your ranking. Work to please your visitors. Work to improve your CWV, make sure your obligations are met with published policies.

I noticed another post of yours mentioned that you have neglected to add alt text for your images. It is important to learn how to build a site properly before expecting to overtake other competitors. Concentrate on the basics first, then work at moving to the top. We all start at the bottom.

[RedBar]

has been consistently falling in search results for years.

If you have an evergreen site rather than an ever changing news / sport / entertainment / new tech type of site, traffic is not necessarily ever-growing even on a global basis. After 30 years of the www many users, especially the huge growth of the past 15+ years, has in many English language markets matured, there is no longer such a thing for many subjects as exponential. The early www adopters have beeen using the web for between 20-30 years, many are not interested in more niche subjects.

Of course this does create a problem for those wishing to earn money simply by publishing articles with no real world products available and with the way G operates these days, especially so with localisation, means that there is a limit to most websites' growth.

I have no idea what your subject is about however are you entirely sure that there is a much bigger audience than you are currently getting?

[aristotle]

I am practically constantly developing the content, expanding it, updating it

Perhaps you are targeting too many different keywords. Nobody can be an expert on hundreds of different subjects.

A website should be built around one theme, with all the pages on different aspects of that theme. In this way the pages will reinforce each other.

[Oktavian]

I think blind advice is pointless. Someone deleted the website address - and there is no point in talking about anything. However, thank you for your commitment.

I'm sure that without looking at the website I won't get anything new beyond the generalities - which I know - because I'm not a layman.

The issue here is complex, but no one knows why. That's why I'm also looking for help from websites in other countries.

Thank you once again for your time, there is no point in talking about the lack of access to the address, what may be the reason - because we can talk like this for a year. Constantly talking about the same thing, which is not a reason because it is either implemented or it does not matter much.

Best regards and I wish you only successes.

[RedBar]

Someone deleted the website address

I'm confused, it's not your website?

[Juniya]

@RedBar, I think he meant someone(the moderator of this forum) deleted his website from his original post.

I think he is saying that no one can give him advice if no one is able to view his website because the address has been 'deleted' from his original post thus, no one can help him because no one knows his website address anymore. Which I guess he is right, I wanted to take a look at it and see what I could suggest as well.

[not2easy]

You may have noticed there are no site reviews in any of our public forums. It was removed as this is in the public forums and ToS #21 and Posting Guidelines #10 explains that this is not allowed in the public forums. It happens a lot, often several times a day.

The place for site reviews is in the Supporters forums: [webmasterworld.com...]

This was explained privately to Oktavian.

[lucy24]

The website, with approximately 10,000 views per day, has been consistently falling in search results for years.

If you’re managing 10,000 views per day with no help from G###, you may not need G###. Where are those 10,000 humans coming from?