Reply To: Official Report: 5 Month Check in for the NEW AI Site Challenge!

I’ve enjoyed pretending to participate. Never did get off the ground. We all have the same number of hours in a day, so it’s just a matter of priorities. Always something else to do, sometimes intentional, sometimes unintentional. Like this month I took a 19 hour Amtrak trip (don’t recommend) and this was followed by 20 days of Covid. (Yes, you can catch it twice. So stay vaccinated, it is out there.) I’ve got more excuses if anyone needs a few.:)

I’ve been following along as Google Core updates take on the Niche Website Community, and SEO as industry and occupation. As I type this, Google has launched the March Core update. In short, it seems to me ‘optimizing’ is ‘manipulating’. From picking a niche, to picking keywords, to chasing topics to maximize the keyword golden ratio, to making sure your page has the right ‘entities’, it seems it is all a cat-and-mouse game.

Some big players have been affected, and none have recovered. It’s probably incorrect to state it that way. They can’t recover because what was page 1 content is now page 20 content. They can’t recover because it’s not in their control. It isn’t directed at them. It’s not that Google likes them less, it likes a different kind of site more. As Diggity says, “the answer as to what Google likes is on the 1st page of Google”.

Try Perplexity. This is probably the future of search. It’s a better “Search Generative Experience” than Google, and so how does one get linked to by Perplexity?