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Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd
This has absolutely been going on since September! My Google traffic is down 40%.
Also remember: while the first page is filled with tube results many, many smart surfers go immediately to page 2 or 3, knowing they are getting spammed with big players on the first page of Google results. Now that is gone and replaced with garbage.
Also, I suspect that the tubes getting the majority of SE traffic now are also seeing strange effects. Sure, traffic may be UP for them but I bet bounce rate has gone up too. Time on site down for the tubes. Views seem to be down on most videos on most homepages I check. Surfers will go to "the big boys" only so often and when they want to search deeper, like into a niche, they are finding garbage.
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correct - in september was the highest decrease but in the meantime surfers start to learn how to define the searches and it is getting better.
the problem was already existing for years but much slower and did not effect as much as the september update.
effected are all so called "unsharp searches" what mean searches what can be also meant non-pornographic. phrases like "lesbian" and even "porn" are not delivering porn results in many countries while "porn videos" (not unsharp) are still packed with porn.
away from that google is using the real user behavior more and more.
wrong links (what means links that are followed but finally not lead to usage) are influencing a lot. if a site have many of such links it may happen that the whole domain
is going to hell.
also site with unclear structure are strongly effected because google canīt find reliable results in them. in fact is onpage optimizing MUCH more relevant.
and last not least google switched back to relevance in domainname and URL.
in the past years it was possible to push a site with the name abcxyz on a good position with any key. if you look deeper in the search results now you will find out that most of the results are represented in the domain name or at least in the URI. in the last mentioned only when there is a clean data structure.
but even when someone have that complete clean and correct it will take a while until surfers getting used to define CLEARER what they want.
I still remember a time when there where 50% porn results on the phrase "grandmother"
- the same "problem" we have now because Google needs to prove that they will NOT deliver porn to people who did not expressly asked for it.
to use the searchkey "porn" does not automatically mean that a user is searching for porn content. It can also be a kid what likes to find an explanation for the word.
if google would not react on this arguments it would be just a question of time til they are forced to ban all pornstuff from the listings.