A few weeks in the past, I reported about that Google Teams was seeing a really massive rating and visibility increase. Properly, it appears to have caught Google’s consideration, the rankings of Google Teams appears to be declining and their visibility in Google Search has dropped. Google Teams nonetheless has lots of visibility within the Google Search outcomes however it had an enormous drop in visibility.
Glenn Gabe posted an replace on X saying, “Fast replace on Google Teams. Yep, it is dropping closely.”
He shared some charts from Semrush displaying the drop in visibility of Google Teams inside Google Search:
Glenn added, “As reported final week, Google Teams surged like loopy proper across the hidden gems addition, however super-dangerous content material was rating for delicate queries. Appears Google addressed a few of that already. I am seeing massive drops there and when checking the queries, that dropped, there are various that had been resulting in that harmful content material. I am certain Google is not performed but, however that is begin. You possibly can see each normal rankings and PAA dropping closely.”
Brian Freiesleben first posted concerning the Google Teams rating increase again on December 1st, he mentioned, “Google Teams conversations are listed and might rank nicely. Perhaps that is associated to Google’s current desire for UGC in SERPs…you possibly can see an enormous bounce in rank beginning this October.”
I assume Google caught wind of this and determined to take motion on this challenge as a result of a lot of these outcomes had been extremely low high quality, actually, many outcomes had been harmful.
Right here is extra from Glenn on what occurs when one goes up and the opposite goes down:
Excellent level, and possibly why I’ve seen Quora drop in Nov, and now surge again, with this newest volatility. Each UGC, each impacted by “hidden gems”. The plot thickens. 🙂 pic.twitter.com/fNGBhocr7f
— Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) December 13, 2023
Extra concerning the Google Teams drop. Checking among the queries that dropped, and the content material that was rating, I am seeing many messages deleted and a few of these urls deindexed. So possibly a mixture of tweaking the “hidden gems” algo + adjustments on the location itself. Very fascinating. pic.twitter.com/lXeb671Fwv
— Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) December 13, 2023
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