<div dir="ltr">What I don't understand is why you think it would affect you Andy. You aren't running a publication. You are a writer working for publications with social teams who know how to deal with search engines. There was surely a period of transition to the new algorithm that an impact on traffic coming from Google, but reputable publications have learned to deal with it. Guys like this are the kind of content that Google is trying to suppress. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 5:11 PM Dan Rosenbaum <<a href="mailto:dan@panix.com">dan@panix.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Mercola’s quackery has cost lives and are regularly and widely discredited by reputable medical authorities. He’s the Alex Jones of the health business; the sooner his lies disappear from search engines, the better off we’ll be.<br>
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> On Jun 27, 2019, at 3:31 PM, Andy Patrizio <<a href="mailto:andy@andypatrizio.com" target="_blank">andy@andypatrizio.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Did you actually look at the articles, which repeatedly cite and link to news sources, or just dismiss it out of hand because you don’t agree with it?<br>
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> From: Ipg-smz <<a href="mailto:ipg-smz-bounces@netpress.org" target="_blank">ipg-smz-bounces@netpress.org</a>> On Behalf Of Dana Blankenhorn<br>
> Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2019 4:28 AM<br>
> To: ipg-smz <<a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org" target="_blank">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a>><br>
> Subject: Re: [Ipg-smz] New Google algorithms cost a site 99% of its traffic<br>
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> Look at the Mercola site, briefly, then ask yourself whether Google should be finding this the answer to any health-related question. Case closed.<br>
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> On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 7:02 AM Ron Miller <<a href="mailto:ronsmiller@gmail.com" target="_blank">ronsmiller@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Agreed on all points, Richi. A quick glance at the link suggests to me the algorithm is doing a great job filtering out crap traffic.<br>
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>> On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 5:49 AM Richi Jennings <<a href="mailto:richi.ipg@richi.uk" target="_blank">richi.ipg@richi.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
>>> Cry me a river. Several points here:<br>
>>> • Mercola's SERPS authority has presumably been downgraded. There will be a reason for this, but he doesn't know what it is. Typically the reason is black-hat SEO.<br>
>>> • He asserts that the reason is actually that Wikipedia has it in for him. He offers no evidence that I can see.<br>
>>> • He criticizes Wikipedia for giving a balanced overview of his—let's not mince words—quackery and extreme politics.<br>
>>> • He also criticizes Wikipedia for not permitting primary sources. He's either willfully ignorant of what this actually means and why it's a good idea, or he's being disingenuous.<br>
>>> • Live by the sword; die by the sword.<br>
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>>> // @RiCHi | +44.7789.200701 | 1.408.256.0084 | <a href="http://richi.uk" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">richi.uk</a> <br>
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>>> On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 5:52 AM Andy Patrizio <<a href="mailto:andy@andypatrizio.com" target="_blank">andy@andypatrizio.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>>> Puts what some of us have been through in perspective…<br>
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>>>> <a href="https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2019/06/25/google-broad-core-algorithm-update-buries-mercola.aspx" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2019/06/25/google-broad-core-algorithm-update-buries-mercola.aspx</a><br>
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