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

[Ron Miller]

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.

On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 5:11 PM Dan Rosenbaum <dan at panix.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> d
>
> Dan Rosenbaum
> dan at panix.com
> 347-658-5855
>
>
>
> > On Jun 27, 2019, at 3:31 PM, Andy Patrizio <andy at andypatrizio.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > From: Ipg-smz <ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org> On Behalf Of Dana
> Blankenhorn
> > Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2019 4:28 AM
> > To: ipg-smz <ipg-smz at netpress.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Ipg-smz] New Google algorithms cost a site 99% of its
> traffic
> >
> > Look at the Mercola site, briefly, then ask yourself whether Google
> should be finding this the answer to any health-related question. Case
> closed.
> >
> > Dana Blankenhorn
> > http://www.danablankenhorn.com
> > http://investorplace.com/author/danablankenhorn/
> > https://www.kiplinger.com/fronts/archive/bios/index.html?bylineID=631
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>>
> >>> // @RiCHi | +44.7789.200701 | 1.408.256.0084 | richi.uk
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 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…
> >>>>
> >>>>
> https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2019/06/25/google-broad-core-algorithm-update-buries-mercola.aspx
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