Dont know if anyone of you have noticed but there was a huge Google core update on May the 5th which seems to have had a big impact on many sites. It’s supposedly still rolling out and shifting so the real results can’t be seen yet. My own site seems ok, nothing major up or down but some changes. My other tube site however took a slight hit again unfortunately so have to go back and rethink what Im doing there.
Would be interesting to hear what others have seen.
Basically no change on my porn sites. But on my forum site new visits from Google have roughly doubled. But even with that, Google doesn’t give nearly as much love to that site as it did a ~4 years ago.
I’m seeing a small 6% uptick in inbound traffic; however, outbound traffic is down about 3% with daily $$$ remaining steady.
The traffic doesn’t seem to have changed all that much with this update (although when I look at the live stats, the downturn is quite noticeable). Even the sales were seemingly unaffected in the beginning. But it’s just not the same as during March-April when the sales were actually much better.
This is not a good update. I’ve noticed that I lost positions for most of the keywords I ranked well for (according to GSC, the performance-average position section). Especially for the keywords that consists of, or contain the name of the porn sites I promote. But the nosedive in keyword rankings is observed across the board. I see that there are mostly tube sites above me, ranking far better even if they don’t really have any content for that porn site. E.g. xvideos ranks better than me for keyword “island studs” although when you click their result in google for island studs you get a list of videos that doesn’t have even one video from Island Studs.
So, I guess the site owners will likely benefit from this update if they cooperate with tubes because google now favors big companies at the expense of a small webmaster/small businesses. But this may backfire at some point. Most of the mainstream straight tubes I’ve seen so far don’t handle gay porn well at all. Any blog that consistently posts about a specific site will always cover that site far better than any tube can ever hope for. IMHO.
We’ve seen a steady increase since the update.
Our position for core keywords improved across the board - we track specific metrics that allow us to track gains/losses as we update the site and Google updates everything else.
Just a note to say that now there’s more days of data, I’m still seeing the same trend. My new Google visits to my forum site continue to be double what they were a month ago, and new Google visits to my porn sites are basically unchanged (down 3%, but totally in the range of “normal”).
I’ve gained about 4% on GayDemon but there’s been major shifts in where that traffic is landing. Some doesnt make any sense either.
Rather predictably we began a considerable expansion to one of our main blogs a few days before, working on a few hundred additional pages and meta content for each. So, when we saw the organic traffic increase by about 70% we’d just assumed we were doing something right.
I don’t pay much attention to Google these days and the changes we were making are genuinely for our readers, encouraging them to stick around and participate, but whether it was us, Google or a mix of both, I’m happy so far.
All ours seems to make sense so far. Geographic targeting is possible with our community blog and that seems to be reflected in the increase so I’m inclined to think it’s perhaps a little of us improving things and Google finally doing something right :happy: