Google Is Killing Small Independent Sites (Commandment of Control)

[MJ DeMarco]

I own a charity website, that google has just killed. The website is 12 years old, we are strictly against spam, or black hat SEO. I have largely ignored the algorithms, because I figured, I am making a website for humans to enjoy and learn from. I never tried to trick google search. It is original content, and some of the big websites (wikipeadia, bbc etc) have taken my content and posted it themselves.

At it's peak, the website was getting 1,500 visitors p/day, and I was always in the top 3 page 1.

5 years ago, an update came out and I was relegated to page 17, for all 30,000 of my pages. Since then I've been getting 400 views p/day. I figured, don't worry, I am still providing original content that is creative and aimed at helping others.

Since this latest update, we have been getting 0.

Google just killed a charity that has been credited as changing an industry, AND put four people out of work. And I've just wasted 12 years of my life.

Side question: Now that my website will cease to exist, will Wikipedia still point it's 1000's of links to my non existent site?

Wow, terribly sad, but not surprising. I hope you find a pivot for the problem, or get some of those rankings restored.

 

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[StrikingViper69]

I own a charity website, that google has just killed. The website is 12 years old, we are strictly against spam, or black hat SEO. I have largely ignored the algorithms, because I figured, I am making a website for humans to enjoy and learn from. I never tried to trick google search. It is original content, and some of the big websites (wikipeadia, bbc etc) have taken my content and posted it themselves.

At it's peak, the website was getting 1,500 visitors p/day, and I was always in the top 3 page 1.

5 years ago, an update came out and I was relegated to page 17, for all 30,000 of my pages. Since then I've been getting 400 views p/day. I figured, don't worry, I am still providing original content that is creative and aimed at helping others.

Since this latest update, we have been getting 0.

Google just killed a charity that has been credited as changing an industry, AND put four people out of work. And I've just wasted 12 years of my life.

Side question: Now that my website will cease to exist, will Wikipedia still point it's 1000's of links to my non existent site?

Do you have google search console? How does your website do with the user experience metrics?

 

[AndrewStorms]

Wow, terribly sad, but not surprising. I hope you find a pivot for the problem, or get some of those rankings restored.

Thank you for the kind words. I will attempt to try and pivot somehow