Google Web Creator Conversation Event just happened
I hate to break it to you but Google will most likely never recover your sites
In the past, Google prioritized "niche sites" because they stuck within a niche, they dominated a topic and became topical leaders in the space
With the emergence of AI writers, you can achieve topical authority in a single click
That's decades of topical authority from independent publishers, easily matched by spammers (like me I guess)
Google can't tell what's AI and what's not (source: trust me bro)
So now they opted for brands with ridiculous strong domain authority, and brand metrics eg. Forbes, MarketWatch etc.
But Jacky, isn't that also easily abused by people like you, Three Ships, and Marketplace?
Yes, yes it is, but from their POV, it's easier to manually sort through 100s of these partnerships, over millions of niche sites
So what now? We do what we always do, adapt, find different channels to push traffic
Google is stuck between a rock and a hard place, and I doubt they'll be able to figure this out, I dumped my shares a while back
This is just my quick 2 cents, it's fun to speculate
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