They Rejected My Reconsideration Request....(Google Spam Update) - Building in Public Day 150

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all right guys didn't forget about you just very busy this morning um it's about 4 p.m. I typically record in the morning also had uh cra's Mastermind it was nice um yeah I met some killers there it was it was great it was good to finally meet people in person that you see you know these personalities online to see what they're like in person um fun fact about I think we're running 20 plus people have come up and said I look way taller I I'm way taller than I look online apparently I am I give off the vibe that I'm like a [ __ ] uh probably the small man syndrome or small person syndrome uh here we go don't do sparkling water with creatine just an FYI all right and um today's video is going to talk about how I was unsuccessful in recovering far and away so um comment Google spam update for the YouTube algorithm thank you very much and uh let's get to the video today all righty so um yesterday we did 4.2k in total revenue up $200 from the day before uh Amazon at 2K um well $2,070 uh mediavine I about 131 so mediavine looks like it's back right but the main thing is because uh we didn't have uh media Vine installed correctly we didn't have like the robots txt [ __ ] like that um but we're back baby and also fan Fuel and sale Health at $13 a pathetic $13 and only fans at $1,100 um pretty good day I'm not going to say we're back cuz I mean clap down hard uh but yeah let's look at the granular numbers today cool so yesterday total ordered Revenue 38.3k um that's D multiplied that by 54 as a average dollar was it $54 for every 1K ordered Revenue that's how we calculate it that's just the average that we've been doing for the last couple months um on the sixth we made $70 in commissions uh yeah we're down bad but you know what it's 70 is $70 is still a lot $70 time what is that 70 * 30 still 2.1k a month we take those all right um but yeah uh not much to say about that let's talk about today's episode all righty so um a couple weeks ago I you know I I'm very vocal about Far and Away everyone knows that faren way. co/ blogs got clapped here's my uh penalty message major spam problems I'm far and away but uh they only clapped the subdirectory and yeah I submitted a reconsideration request after I removed all the AI content uh that's on the blog right the ones that are left right now were handwritten some by expert subject matter like uh subject matter experts and some just by my internal Team all right um here uh not sure what that was but um so as an example I just copied a random blog post from the homepage through that into gbt Z just to show that it's human um as you can see highly confident this is entirely human because it was written by human and pretty much the entire site all that's left is this I think there is I don't know how many articles exactly but I think there was only like 30 articles left so they there're they rejected my request saying hey in response to your reconsideration request Google has reviewed your site for violations of website Web Master guidelines based on this review some of the manual actions of your site has been adjusted or revoked you can see what manual action applied to your site by checking the okay so they're pretty much saying okay yeah we removed some of the clappening but it's still affecting Pages within F.C blogs which is I mean what does that mean right uh these posts were written by humans so I just assumed it was automatically generated gibberish like this um what else can I possibly do so I guess my next step is probably to just remove the top like best XYZ articles or at least put them into drafts just to see how Google will take it so um as you can see let me go back here a lot of these articles are like best XYZ keywords right so what I'll do is probably just remove all of these and then just leave like what's the what material is best for dinwar everyday use etc etc um and give that a try I I will probably draft most of the buyer intent keywords just to see what um they do in terms of uh with the manual action but what I responded with was all our blog posts were 100% human written the ones that are left we deleted over a th000 AI article written articles could you please double check this like if it's guys if it's entirely human what what else could we possibly do right um I don't know but this is like fascinating to me because we we've been testing several things uh there's a case where we removed all the blog posts we drafted them all Rec asked submitted reconsideration request and got that passed so it's like is that all I have to do and in that case does that mean I just draft them all we're reconsidered like we passed we remove the penalty we post it again and it's fine how does that work um yeah but all all this is fascinating I'm just I just want to report Things based off like what I've seen but uh yeah in The Mastermind today one thing I did want to talk about is apparently um these manual penalties expire after two years so just a little fun fact I I can weather two years [ __ ] man I'm I'm going to be retired after this year I'm going to take a step back but if that means I'm going to [ __ ] start making money in two years so be it I I'll sit around with my like TW twiddling my thumbs and wait for that you know um but anyways yeah that's that's all for today if you guys like today's episode just comment Google spam update for the YouTube algorithm helps a lot and I'm going to spend the next couple minutes answer your questions I'm sorry for the late episode today but it is what it is all right all right all right so Julian Goldie says the dedication great meeting you yesterday thanks Julian um and it was good seeing you at The Mastermind today uh I told everyone I had to run which is true cuz I had to come I had to run back because we actually have an appointment in an hour and I'm trying to get this out before then cuz I I know I'm not going to be in any place to do anything after 5:00 p.m. I'm going to be very tired today hopefully we get to sleep early we'll see do you recommend citations on a niche site or just for local sites typically just for local sites it just helps build that I don't know that local power local relevancy yada yada Niche sites I have built citations on these sites though um so do keep that in mind hope you're feeling better soon Jackie guys I probably sound better today um can't really talk about what I did this morning but yeah for rank rent how do you get Google business profile video verification do you have to partner with a legit business in order to get the [Music] GBP um number one yeah to get that you should be a legit business but there are ways around it I told you I don't promote that [ __ ] Google if you're watching I don't do that we're doing nothing illegal do you see any advantage in creating informational articles not to rank considering gsse but rather to send a positive signal via updated site interlinking and outbound links yes that is full stop that is advantageous um but just that's I wouldn't say that's part of my 8020 like in my case studies for the physio East Vancouver I talked about like creating blog post but as you see my the steps I've taken to ranking the blog post I didn't even reach the blog post part for ranking rents and I was me I managed to hit like I don't know own the number two three and four now so yeah I haven't finished all your videos but have you covered an in-depth video on Partnerships yeah I did what are they what typically looks like what is the Rev split and the W what are the winners for types of Partnerships yeah I did a video about that um I think it's episode one actually give that a check uh Zan appreciate you commenting all the time by the way I really appreciate that you mentioned blackout world world is outdated I went there to have a look at the IM Journeys there does seem to be a lot of noise what's the modern version of black hat world if one exists guys I'm I'm I'm trying to do I'm doing the video equivalent of IM Journeys and I don't want to shill advise Community too often but guys just get [ __ ] get in the advis community all right trust me it's it is the best place for seos in general who are trying to make money online if you're trying to I don't know [ __ ] grow uh the organic traffic of a 10,000 page site uh Ecom site and you're an in-house SEO advice not might might not be for you we got traffic think tank for that but the profile of the people in advis community are people who are trying to make more money online whether there there majority honestly in the beginning majority of the people were making like [ __ ] 10K plus now it's probably dropped down to 5K plus a month um but yeah we're we're we're we're we're B it's a balancing act for us right now it's very interesting um still working on that so guys go apply to the advis community because we're actually shutting the doors to all applications at uh 350 members just because we want to make sure there's a certain quality control because the beginners are okay so our thesis is this let me know what you guys think all right the thesis is this newbies will come in maybe because they they go maybe they pass our like screening process they get in they stay for a couple months they don't make any money they bounce all right but the thesis is The Killers will stay in because they'll get value from it from it and they know how to extract value from the community and they'll stay in so we'll be able to replace the churning newbies with like I don't know Killers that's that's pretty much what I'm thinking but uh let me know what you guys think Marcus says hangover for the algo thank you very much so fragile bro last year I had an average of 2 hours a day of sleep more creatine dude that's what I'm saying uh live stream not being set to the correct audio my bad my bad and hang over for the algo thank you bless platform where people are looking for top media PR placement new platform um I have no idea so guys smash through all the questions today if you guys have any questions at all drop them in the comment section below I'll answer them tomorrow and that's it guys it was fun I missed you guys I missed doing one of these videos again take it easy