Data gathered by Chartbeat and shared by Axios reveals that, over the past year, Google Search traffic to publishers across the broader web have fallen drastically, and proportionally more so for smaller websites. Referral traffic from Google apparently fell by 60% for “small publishers,” while “medium publishers” (those with between 10,000-100,000 daily pageviews) saw a drop of 47%. “Large publishers,” meanwhile, saw a 22% drop. That last category would be any site getting over 100,000 daily pageviews.

It’s not just Google Search either. While Search traffic dropped by 34%, traffic from Google Discover has also fallen by 15% over the past year, the report found.

  • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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    14 days ago

    I’m in a couple discords that have tech support channels and it’s always annoying when people like that come in. “I already catastrophically fucked my shit up,. Why aren’t you assholes helping?” Okay buddy, let me just hop back to the past real quick and stop you from doing that.

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      14 days ago

      I mean if they just admitted what they fucked up and asked if there was any way out, you’d be a lot kinder. But instead they just jam their dick in there fucking with shit they have no business touching then start screaming for everyone ELSE to fix it like they pay us to.

      We really don’t tell these people to go fuck themselves enough.

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        That’s the thing. People try be kind but these guys jump in there in a panic and when they don’t instantly get an answer they’re all like “AREN’T ANY OF YOU ASSHOLES GOING TO HELP ME!!!?”. We’d be helping if we could dude but you already fucked yourself. Getting all aggressive with us isn’t going to change matters.