Hey Kida ... I had a bit of a scout around your website and I'm not finding anything obvious which would prevent indexing. Robots.txt looks fine. I checked the source of a couple pages and nothing obvious there either.
Even fed the source code into GPT and after having to tell it who's boss (it kept hallucinating), no problems found in the source code.
It does seem like a bit of a weird one !
@rohanm exactly! Lol 😂 I just looked this morning out of curiosity fixed the 403 error had got and resubmitted my deindex pages. Nothing wrong. Googled helpful update wasnt that much of a help to me. But i know how to work around it. Im just going to focus on restructuring my site, add more articles and such. Wont let Google stress me out behind this foolishness! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@keydah_keys yeah ... Google has slapped me before and it hurt. HCU 23 was second time around for me and my site was not generating much income so no big loss but it just goes to show, diversification is important (says he, barely diversifying at all 🤫 ).
But look at Lizzy ... she's given Google the middle finger and just focused on building multiple traffic sources. Then Google seems to sit up and pay attention. Lizzy has seen a partial recovery!
Re: the de-indexing of your site. Are all pages reporting the same issue ie: redirect problems?
@rohanm Yes, minus one page that said access forbbiden 403. The rest were 404s. 🙄 Google being so google. But ill do what lizzy doing and just diversify.
@keydah_keys where would you start diversifying? If it is on Pinterest (what niche do you have?), I would certainly recommend blogtopin.com and save you a lot of time and energy! So far, I haven't seen any other AI platforms that are as affordable and working well.
Ai platforms that write ànd blog post, ànd AI images made,and éverything is AI, without humanising the heck out of things, are way to expensive, and in my humble opinion, not working. And I've seen so many people on Twitter now saying that they lost their Mediavine account because of this 'excessive ' use of AI.
So just beware of that if you're looking for gains through ads. (it's my biggest money source right now).
Long story short: wherever you can , still use real pictures.
Facebook is also dumping fluff-AI pages. Guru's say: nah won't happen to me, but Facebook has time and has to go through millions of pages.
Granted, I am having quite some AI written pages on my Africa site and might never get to Journey either with that one, lol, but now I know this, I will be going over a number of posts on my mini site, cause I don't want to lose that ads account.
And I still don't have enough traffic to join Raptive or so, aarggghh hahaha
About Google: yep, partially recovered, but remind you that this is only a fraction of what I used to have , and 2 years later, while still having worked on that site, people should remind themselves that this traffic would have been higher then it was in 2023, so we've lost even more then we think we have.
What's tricky also is that GSC has now set the 'clicks' graphs above the 'view' graphs. That is soooo deceiving, isn't it?
Also, you can see in the last days, that the 2 lines are growing appart, if you know what I mean.
Which means that people don't click through to your site any longer, but stay on Google, to just search AGAIN, because they haven't found what they are looking for.
Seen it myself so many times, personally I use ChatGPT now, my husband the European version, instead of Google. If it wasnt for my site, I wouldnt use Google any longer either.
yesterday, I saw an article where I read that people only click on sites from the AI overview for about 1%. I'm surprised it is still that 'high' lol
if I'm continuing to gain traffic from Google, I think in my case, it is purely traffic from keywords that CAN NOT APPEAR in the AI overview, because of my tutorials and questions that AI has no answer to yet. (the day that the AI overview can write out perfectly how to 'create DIY dollhouse furniture with step by step pictures', I might just aswell close down everything lol.
Not to be negative, but I think in lots of niches, there will be in a near future, a no-more-click-internet anyway. We'll just point our phone camera's on an object, and an Ai voice will figur it all out for you.
That's why I intend to continu working on my Etsy store (with the help of Diane ) and probably will have an ecommerce store on my site too. (been saying this forever, really got to get to it lol)
So, (no affiliate links), if you're going for Pinterest; try blogtopin.com , or want to grow a facebook page with ads: check out this course: https://www.introverted-entrepreneur.com/facebook-for-niche-sites
And if you are still on WA: save your money and leave, seriously (nah, no regrets, only regret was that I stayed too long)
Lizzy
this traffic would have been higher then it was in 2023, so we've lost even more then we think we have.
That's a really good point Lizzy!
personally I use ChatGPT now, my husband the European version, instead of Google
Me too! I only use Google for a quick bit of keyword research really. GPT gives me the answers I need and is correct 99% of the time 🙂
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