I really enjoy your lectures. Can i join your The project with 30 usd month . Am in Africa and would really love to join.

Pivoting away from blogging into something else is what I'm doing to adapt.

@@TheColossalBlanket What are you pivoting into if I may ask?

What are you pivoting to?@@TheColossalBlanket

@@TheColossalBlanketblogging still works just started dont lose hope stay positive

😂. However, it's still better than killing creativity altogether with by promoting mass-produced, scraped, AI content.

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I think that they will get you a seat (cited) beside generated content such as Perplexity is doing now. So it maybe not hurt too much.

Good point never thought of it like that. I think centralisation of podcasts in Spotify (and video podcasts) have helped their return. That and streaming I remember having to download them

@user-gi5xo8rp4n I saw an interview recently on Doug Cunnington's channel, in which the interviewee told how she bulk published 1700 unreviewed and unedited lowest quality AI articles to a new website, which got a 400% boost from the so-called helpful content update. Go figure. I say this, mind you, not as an example to be emulated but solely to remark that Google is stumbling of late. I was surprised to learn that, small as it may be, Bing is steadily gaining market share and has been for years, as is Duckduckgo. More telling, for me, was first to experience and then hear people say that Bing is providing better answers nowadays. Telling, because that's how I switched from yahoo, way back when, to Google. As a content creator, it is in my best interest to consider that as wishful thinking, but it does not negate the fact that Google seems to be prioritizing authority over relevance, more so than they did in the past. In no small part, I believe, that is an aftermath of the Facebook fake news scandal and, more recently, on account of AI content. In that context, I expect turbulence and perhaps unwarranted and unmistakably overly-aggressive updates. It is disheartening to see one's work not come to fruition, and I suspect diversification, whichever form it may take, is appropriates in these times. My earlier comment, more than anything, was meant to relate that, now more than ever, it's important to follow a no-nonsense approach. In so doing, one may be able to foresee, rather than be caught off guard and have to react to, the general intent of these updates. That said, website owners, objectively speaking, have had it too easy. Compare this business to any other endeavor, and the standard approach to earning a living - a college education - in terms of the time, effort and money invested, relative to the returns, and you'll find that this industry is long-overdue for a severe tightening. Consider that nothing in this world, it being the means to everything else, is in more demand than money, and, if this industry is providing more for less, that alone is sufficient to expect hardships ahead.

Same here

Similar for me...

I got hit pretty hard as well, starting with Pinterest's changes a couple years ago. SEO definitely got tougher.

same, nothing is helping, it's only dropping more and more...

A full-time income just from blogging??? Wow! How did you do it??

I really hope your comment was sarcastic. Forbes is far from an expert in many fields. They just copy content from other bloggers, rephrase it, and then publish it as so-called "Experts." They just pay big bucks to Google to let them be in the top positions, just like many other publications such as GoogHouseKeeping, Vogue, CountryLiving, TheSpruce, and so on. Is all about bribing just like the newspapers

True what are the big media sites doing? Copy their formula

Yeah, after scrapping our content, they may not need us

The same here. I'm discouraged.

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Right. I’m in the process of getting one going, it’s already overwhelming as is, when all this thrown in the mix😢

Thank you! I thought the meme would be a good idea. I’m so glad that advice is working so well for you!

Stay positive it isn’t dead ots alive and very well

Care to share some of those prompts buddy?😊😊😊

You're welcome

Google is still by far the most used search engine. Ignoring it would not serve us or our viewers. That said, our methods work on all search engines. As far as ranking for “Project 24” when I Google it from a logged out browser, I see us ranking #1, 2, and 3 all on sites we own. The #1 position being held by incomeschool.com. Google gives you search results based on your location, demographics, and history.

following

Why not create a LinkedIn Newsletter and cross promote on your YT Channel and Blog.

I would imagine just start answering questions under your author name on Quora, or in forums etc. Eventually, your name will show up in the search results as an authority in your field.

nothing is helping ...

Absolutely! Good point. I'm working with businesses who recognize the value of content marketing, specifically blogging, and who don't know how to do it. If blogging for yourself doesn't work for someone, they should consider running the content strategy for a company.

@@IncomeSchool Yeah, I’m a search guy so i have my hand is various pies across blogging, local seo, ecom and even ebay. It’s fascinating watching Google completely dismantle content marketing for bloggers while keeping their other algorithms largely stable. I suspect the pandemic gave Google a lot of useful data that made it pretty clear their content ranking algo was not doing a good job. Then ChatGPT enforced that.

I have this same question. Commenting so I can come back to this.

That's not a good idea. You should only change the URL of a blog post if it is not SEO-friendly, for example, due to duplicated URLs, a wrong URL structure, an excessive number of characters, etc. If the URLs are fine for your old blog post without traffic, simply update the content for a better search intention fit and review the internal links. Avoid changing URLs whenever possible.

@@miguitaleleblog3514 I do not agree, it can be better because it Google didn't like that page and it can take very long for Google to give it the change it deserves. But I'm not sure since things are changing so quickly. That's why I'm curious what Ricky thinks right now.

You should rewrite it and do a 301 redirect to the new URL. Only if the current URL is a year old at least though and not ranking well.

It’s the Sony a6600

the HCU was a brand update, Google simply penalized you for not being a brand; that means you likely didn't have a social media presence; Google cannot know whether you are an expert in something, only by being a brand

That stinks, Kevin. Your website looks helpful and nicely done. Have you considered looking at paid traffic / Google Ads since SEO is being impacted?

​@@flaviumircea4012He has, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and a local store address. Those signals should be enough for Google to recognize him as a human / brand. I'd like to see the recent traffic drop per page to see what's going on.

Use social media to drive traffic. Google favors companies that are at least 8 figures. You can't compete with that.

In the same boat as you, Kevin. Posts only written by myself, a runner for 20 years, and one other longtime runner. My 4-year-old blog, which day one was built from Income School methods, lost about 80% of its' traffic in one fell swoop in Sept. I am lucky that the main part of my business is driven by KZfaq. I really feel for the people who were making the majority of their income from their blog. It's super sad. A reminder to us all to diversify I guess. I really hesitate to put a lot of work back into my blog because I worked really hard to make the content as helpful as possible and couldn't have predicted this. Wishing you all the best in the future - your drawings are amazing and look like you have so much to offer people.

We don't specifically teach how to incorporate a Shopify store, but it's not too complicated. I'm actually building a site for a company right now that wants to use Shopify for their order management so that could turn into content for this channel. And yes, then it would be FREE! We also recommend several different avenues to grow EEAT, which includes several non-Google approaches to growing your audience. Most people should pick at least 1 social media platform to be on based on their niche and all bloggers should be getting interviewed on podcasts.

Thank you for your response! It sounds like blogging is just becoming more of a solid business model now and not just a hobby that could generate money!

This is the missing link. Getting traffic. Shopify has blog functionality but you have to figure out how to customize it to do the things you can do in Wordpress. It can be done, it just takes some work. I'm having trouble cracking the traffic part -- and worried about the economy. It's not doing as well as the media tells us.

...until AI

AI is already here. People want to learn from real people with real experiences. @@jc4evur661

"Regarding Google, it has always been clear that the focus for content creator should be on the user not the algorithm." That's the height of irony, isn't it? Everybody's been saying that for years, and for years the content that comes out of a search is less and less relevant.

@user-xd4wr8ry7i Exactly. Just like you said!

Some of all kinds. That’s the thing. It varies from site to site, not just type to type. There are niche sites that are going strong and others that got decimated. The same is true across niches and site types. There have also been so many updates that most people seem to have been affected at least a little by at least one.

The like button is located in a slightly different place depending on the screen resolution. So it generally points to the lower right. It’s not intended to be the exact location. Most KZfaq users know where the like button is… Oh, and you’re welcome for the free content.

Yes! I totally agree.

Yes we are talking about the unknowable to some degree. I am more in the camp of it being far more disruptive than many realise, but i see a want for imperfect human interaction will increase for sure.

Ironically, your content is being judged by AI (the entire Google algorithm is AI based). So if you think AI does not work well with human content, what makes you think Google is doing great in understanding helpful content. They can't as seen by this failure of an HCU update.

It's obvious when a bot wrote it. The flow isn't there as when a human writes it. It's just fact and explanation.

You don't know how to use prompts if that's the case. You can get AI to train and write like a human with experience. You just need to build the right prompts in.@@sblijheid

I think so too.

I agree, but what are your reasons?

As someone who has lived off blogging since 2009 and started in 2007, I can say that THAT is a lie.

Please start a blog and make it successful to reach fulltime income. Then we'll see.

Facts

Lots of sources, including Google themselves. That’s kind of what we do here. Well, it’s one of the things at least.

@@IncomeSchool Well I was hoping for a more concrete source, do you have insider info or something?

Google themselves announce many of these changes. Some of their liaison employees comment on them on X and on their KZfaq channel. Other analysts look at search ranking data whenever these updates happen to track the big changes. There are tons of sources anyone can find. One of the many things we do is boil it all down into a single video for you.

If that actually happens, we’ll be talking about it. In the meantime, we’ll be adapting to change and seizing the opportunities left by those who quit or couldn’t adapt.

@@IncomeSchool Thank you for the reply, I hoped you would act in such ways as i do believe you are good people. Yet i am aware some are burying their head in the sand or not realising the utter disruption we are in for. Thank you.

If blogs die due to AI, then AI won't be able to scape information to get updated answers, which means people will have to go to different places for answers, which means bloggers can create content answer those questions. Blogs will exists but most likely behind a paywall with traffic coming from somewhere else besides Google.

@@goodfellabeats I understand what you mean. In the event of AI totally integrating itself within human lives, humans will long for the "human" touch more. But i feel it will be away from blogs and be within video if not IRL. As for where AI will get their info from, i think they will scrape video content instead.

​@@riptideL That's doubtful. I know engineers developing tech using LLM and they are a long ways away from replacing what trillions of internet pages that exists. A very long ways away. And even then, it is about user adoption rather than AI capabilities. Plus, video has been threatening text information for over 100 years. 20 years ago the internet was supposed to replace books but booksellers like Barnes & Noble are actually opening new locations.

Seems IS have no current projects that have reached full-time income to showcase.

They just represent most of the search engine traffic… so you think the best move is to ignore them? I’m not kissing up to them. But I’m making you aware of what’s working so you can benefit from Google traffic. We also talk about other traffic sources. But Google drives the most traffic.

@@IncomeSchool I wasn't really commenting about you guys directly. No offence intended.