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I use google search console to see how Imedwiki pages get displayed and found on google. The presence of Imedwiki content on search engines is rather weak. That seemed ok for the moment as content is slowly developing and in correspondence there was a slight increase in search engine hits. Last october though I was surprised by a rapid decline in impressions and clicks as shown in the screenshot above. A little research showed that there had been an update in googles spam algorithm<ref>{{Cite web| last = Schwartz| first = Barry| title = Google releases October 2022 spam update| work = Search Engine Land| accessdate = 2023-03-13| date = 2022-10-19| url = https://searchengineland.com/google-releases-october-2022-spam-update-388880}}</ref> which seemed to have affected the way Imedwiki is represented in search engines, seemingly as Spam. Just now I can only speculate about the reasons. Either it is formal reasons like too many imported articles from wikipedia or it is related to the integrative medical content. | I use google search console to see how Imedwiki pages get displayed and found on google. The presence of Imedwiki content on search engines is rather weak. That seemed ok for the moment as content is slowly developing and in correspondence there was a slight increase in search engine hits. Last october though I was surprised by a rapid decline in impressions and clicks as shown in the screenshot above. A little research showed that there had been an update in googles spam algorithm<ref>{{Cite web| last = Schwartz| first = Barry| title = Google releases October 2022 spam update| work = Search Engine Land| accessdate = 2023-03-13| date = 2022-10-19| url = https://searchengineland.com/google-releases-october-2022-spam-update-388880}}</ref> which seemed to have affected the way Imedwiki is represented in search engines, seemingly as Spam. Just now I can only speculate about the reasons. Either it is formal reasons like too many imported articles from wikipedia or it is related to the integrative medical content. | ||
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| + | A website states "Finally, Google’s Spam Update also works to reduce duplicate content. This refers to when there are multiple versions of the same content on different websites or web pages. This can be used to manipulate rankings, as well as reduce the quality of search engine results. Google’s Spam Update will seek out and penalize websites that are using these types of practices."<ref>{{Cite web| last = Maurya| first = Nidhi| title = List of Google algorithm update in 2022 - Tutorialswebsite| work = TutorialsWebsite - Learn Online Programming articles, Web Development Tutorials| accessdate = 2023-03-13| date = 2022-12-24| url = https://www.tutorialswebsite.com/list-of-google-algorithm-update-in-2022/}}</ref> As Imedwiki has imported content from Wikipedia this might be a reason to downrate the site. This is sad as wikipedias licensing allows importing to imedwiki and a main concept of imedwiki is to provide a [[Plurality of perspectives|pluralistic]] overview including perspectives found on wikipedia and extendin and/or modifying them. If importing from wikipedia would lead to being marked as Spam this concept would need to be reviewed. | ||
In the long run it would be good that the pages can easily be found on search engines. Right now to get pages like the main page found on google it's necessary to search for "imedwiki integrative medicine" and afterwards select to not search for "imed wiki" but imedwiki to get the imedwiki page on [[integrative medicine]] displayed in the search results at all. | In the long run it would be good that the pages can easily be found on search engines. Right now to get pages like the main page found on google it's necessary to search for "imedwiki integrative medicine" and afterwards select to not search for "imed wiki" but imedwiki to get the imedwiki page on [[integrative medicine]] displayed in the search results at all. | ||
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Imedwiki on google search
I use google search console to see how Imedwiki pages get displayed and found on google. The presence of Imedwiki content on search engines is rather weak. That seemed ok for the moment as content is slowly developing and in correspondence there was a slight increase in search engine hits. Last october though I was surprised by a rapid decline in impressions and clicks as shown in the screenshot above. A little research showed that there had been an update in googles spam algorithm[1] which seemed to have affected the way Imedwiki is represented in search engines, seemingly as Spam. Just now I can only speculate about the reasons. Either it is formal reasons like too many imported articles from wikipedia or it is related to the integrative medical content.
A website states "Finally, Google’s Spam Update also works to reduce duplicate content. This refers to when there are multiple versions of the same content on different websites or web pages. This can be used to manipulate rankings, as well as reduce the quality of search engine results. Google’s Spam Update will seek out and penalize websites that are using these types of practices."[2] As Imedwiki has imported content from Wikipedia this might be a reason to downrate the site. This is sad as wikipedias licensing allows importing to imedwiki and a main concept of imedwiki is to provide a pluralistic overview including perspectives found on wikipedia and extendin and/or modifying them. If importing from wikipedia would lead to being marked as Spam this concept would need to be reviewed.
In the long run it would be good that the pages can easily be found on search engines. Right now to get pages like the main page found on google it's necessary to search for "imedwiki integrative medicine" and afterwards select to not search for "imed wiki" but imedwiki to get the imedwiki page on integrative medicine displayed in the search results at all.
The development of the search results showed the power of algorithms to me and how easily a decision by a company can have huge impact on a project.
I'd like to better understand this issue so this post might pose as a basis for exchange. Please add comments, suggestions, similar experiences at the discussion page.
References
- ↑ Schwartz, Barry (2022-10-19). "Google releases October 2022 spam update". Search Engine Land. Retrieved 2023-03-13.
- ↑ Maurya, Nidhi (2022-12-24). "List of Google algorithm update in 2022 - Tutorialswebsite". TutorialsWebsite - Learn Online Programming articles, Web Development Tutorials. Retrieved 2023-03-13.