June 2025 Google Search Observations

[Conro]

I also see bots coming, but the strange thing is that after 4 years they keep looking for pages that I deleted from the site. In any case, I closed the company because of Google's illegal monopoly, so I don't care what happens to the website anymore. I just hope that Google will be condemned for the damage it has inflicted on companies that need the web to live. If Google hadn't taken the monopoly illegally, this damage would never have happened. The small (and more) web companies all depend on a single search engine and the whims of those who manage it

[edited by: not2easy at 1:46 am (utc) on Jun 7, 2025]
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[Dooku]

Google launches Offerwall, a money lifeline for publishers

Are you kidding me?! This reminds me of the Jawa's in the Star Wars movies and The Mandalorian......stealing property and then selling it back to it's owner.

[RedBar]

An interesting comparison so far this weekend:

1. Global .com of 30+ years struggling to achieve 50% traffic level with US traffic alone now approaching -40%.

2. UK .co.uk hotel venue site with 95% UK traffic. This is our biggest charity weekend of the year with Saturday seeing its highest-ever PVs and uniques, likewise the tills experienced similar. So far today it's continuing at the same levels ... It is warm and heaving :-)

Personally I am rapidly losing all interest in developing new Western international business, quite simply I do not need G's restrictions and manipulations in those economies.

[RedBar]

2. UK .co.uk hotel venue site with 95% UK traffic.

I forgot to mention this, 5.5% tablet devices and 85.5% mobiles!

[RedBar]

Question ... Is WebmasterWorld now blocking VPNs?

[RubicCubed]

Question ... Is WebmasterWorld now blocking VPNs?

Wouldn't surprise me since our own site is also being hammered by bots operating on VPNs. Bot attacks here must also be severe and may necessitate blocking VPNs to keep the forum up and running. See Brett's post from last month at [webmasterworld.com...]

We are absolutely getting abused by bots here. Not sure I can even keep the site online any longer.
A couple million page views a day. I've got over 50,000 ips in the block list right now - including 15 cblocks.

[RedBar]

Brett's post

Ok, I'm catching-up, this will explain my big increase in data usage I reported last week. Interestingly it's only against .com/net sites not uk/asia/cn/in/ru at the moment. Will delve further.

[EditorialGuy]

it would cost too much for them to pay for all the sites crawled in the world

You bring up an interesting point: How many sites are crawled by Google, ChatGPT, etc. for AI training purposes? And what criteria are used in separating the wheat from the chaff?

I remember a Google patent from years ago that discussed using trusted "seed pages" to juice PageRank and improve search rankings. Couldn't the same concept be put to work for AI? It's hard to imaging that Google (or its AI rivals) would want to use everything on the Web as grist for AI training. The crap-to-useful-content ratio would be ridiculous.

[Treud]

AI is feeding from website made with AI …. That’s brilliant :)
Can’t see a bright futur for this, unless for small and boring task that can be done by AI.

And I’m hammered by bots as well ….

[Skips]

Just looked at today's stats: Google traffic now makes up about 20% of my total, down from 90% just a few months ago. Despite putting in considerable effort to "keep Google happy" after all the nonsense they've rolled out since December, the decline continues - now, obviously worsened by AIO. So I'm shifting gears and focusing on maximizing the other 80% instead of trying to decode Google's ever-changing game. I'm confident I'll adapt, but I'm just wondering what long-term effect Google thinks this will have. They can't realistically expect webmasters to keep chasing the carrot forever, can they? Don't they realize, they're undermining their own importance - from being the primary source of traffic to quickly becoming "just one of many".

[saladtosser]

>>>Don't they realize, they're undermining their own importance - from being the primary source of traffic to quickly becoming "just one of many".<<<

Clearly not, but your right, instead of competing with other LLM chatbots by creating their own standalone product they decided to crush their search engine with it! It will not end well for them or us unless a major shift happens with users rejecting AI and moving/authorities stepping in or Google changing direction! All seem unlikely anytime soon, though I suspect user backlash stands the most chance at some point in the years ahead!

[Micha]

Well then, here we go, the rollercoaster ride begins, the core update is rolling out

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[Whitey]

3 weeks if you’re lucky

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[Fluff_Nutz]

Wow, they announce an ''update'' now? One could argue that there has been something happening every day since end of May. So, from the looks of things, the entirety of both June and July are screwed. Nice work G.

Would be nice if this announcement was a late one regarding June. Not going into July.

[ichthyous]

So far my traffic has been improving nicely. Waiting for the other shoe to drop. I was out of the country for 6 weeks and didnt pay attention to my site, didnt look at analytics or SEM or ranking. Gosh that was nice.

We are clearly in recession here in USA, despite the surging (manipulated) stock market. I haven't seen a single customer since the 24th and my vendors are also reporting that business is stone dead. We know who to thank for that...

[Skips]

So nice not to have to care about their next core update anymore, LOL

[Juzi]

For someone like me, who just graduated from university in 2023 and stepped into the SEO world, this honestly feels like a disaster. I’ve only just started to fall in love with SEO, and now I’m being told that AI might completely take it over.

[mosxu]

@Juzi

You are in the wrong industry

[System]

New month, new thread here: [webmasterworld.com...]

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