[Ipg-smz] New Google algorithms cost a site 99% of its traffic

[Dan Rosenbaum]

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.

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> On Jun 27, 2019, at 3:31 PM, Andy Patrizio <andy at andypatrizio.com> wrote:
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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?
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> From: Ipg-smz <ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org> On Behalf Of Dana Blankenhorn
> Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2019 4:28 AM
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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.
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> Dana Blankenhorn
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> On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 7:02 AM Ron Miller <ronsmiller at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
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>> On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 5:49 AM Richi Jennings <richi.ipg at richi.uk> wrote:
>>> Cry me a river. Several points here:
>>> 	• 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.
>>> 	• He asserts that the reason is actually that Wikipedia has it in for him. He offers no evidence that I can see.
>>> 	• He criticizes Wikipedia for giving a balanced overview of his—let's not mince words—quackery and extreme politics.
>>> 	• 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.
>>> 	• Live by the sword; die by the sword.
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>>> // @RiCHi | +44.7789.200701 | 1.408.256.0084 | richi.uk 
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>>> On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 5:52 AM Andy Patrizio <andy at andypatrizio.com> wrote:
>>>> Puts what some of us have been through in perspective…
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>>>> https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2019/06/25/google-broad-core-algorithm-update-buries-mercola.aspx
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