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Fred’s losers: Sistrix analysis says ad-heavy, thin-content sites hit worst http://ift.tt/2mPW8Ww Sistrix, an SEO toolset data collection company, published their analysis of the Google Fred update after reviewing “nearly 300 domains.” Their analysis describes the sites and pages that were hit like this:
They have confirmed our analysis of Fred, where we said low value content sites were hit by this update. Juan Gonzalez from Sistrix analyzed 300 website domains on Google Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States, all of which lost Google search results visibility after March 13, 2017. Juan said that “nearly all losers were very advertisement heavy, especially banner ads, many of which were AdSense campaigns … Another thing that we often noticed was that those sites offered little or poor quality content, which had no value for the reader.” He then shared specific examples of sites that were hit and how bad their visibility dropped. Many of the sites lost between 50 percent and 90 percent visibility in Google, which correlates with what we’ve seen webmasters report their Google traffic has dropped after being hit by this Fred update. This chart shows the ranking distribution on Google for freewarefiles.com before the Fred update: This chart shows the ranking distribution on Google for freewarefiles.com after the Fred update: Here is a visibility report from Sistrix show a 75 percent drop for freewarefiles.com in Google.com: Google has confirmed there was a new update but would not add anything outside of the fact that what it targeted can be found in the Google webmaster guidelines. SEO via Search Engine Land: News & Info About SEO, PPC, SEM, Search Engines & Search Marketing http://ift.tt/fN1KYC March 29, 2017 at 03:40AM
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