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Mike Ciffone

@mciffone

Founder @ Ciffone Digital | Mostly active on LinkedIn

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This site was "hit by the HCU". It has unaddressed malware, link spam, and CWV issues, all contributing to its current state. Far more than "helpful content" is needed here to recover. #SEO

This site was "hit by the HCU". It has unaddressed malware, link spam, and CWV issues, all contributing to its current state. Far more than "helpful content" is needed here to recover. #SEO
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If you're concerned about how SGE and #OpenAI are going to affect search; I would start by translating as much of your content as possible into machine-readable formats. Along with quality and authoritativeness, fast information retrieval and semantic richness are priorities for

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Plot twist: congressional whistle blower claims March Google Update unfairly targeted conservatives, House Republicans to launch investigation and threaten to repeal section 230 until someone pays them off. #SEO #Google

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I’d like to see lists of queries that Reddit is outranking these victims for. How many are low CLV, high informational intent / is this really affecting your bottom line? If yes because of ad revenue, I get that, but I’d ask different questions. #SearchEngineOptimization

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Craigslist's dynamic content & client-side rendering prevent individual listings from being indexed. For a lack of other relevant pages to show, spam is allowed to creep in. Looking at images, we can see what Google wants to do; it's trying to show individual listings and

Craigslist's dynamic content & client-side rendering prevent individual listings from being indexed.

For a lack of other relevant pages to show, spam is allowed to creep in.

Looking at images, we can see what Google wants to do; it's trying to show individual listings and
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This is not ok lol that thread features non-medical experts debating the right and wrong ways to take prescription medication. Who am I supposed to tell about this here...πŸ€” Barry Schwartz Lily Ray 😏 Google SearchLiaison ?

This is not ok lol that thread features non-medical experts debating the right and wrong ways to take prescription medication.

Who am I supposed to tell about this here...πŸ€”
<a href="/rustybrick/">Barry Schwartz</a> <a href="/lilyraynyc/">Lily Ray 😏</a> <a href="/searchliaison/">Google SearchLiaison</a> ?
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For all of the people trying to turn off AI Overviews on Google here ya go: Download the Chrome extension Tamper Monkey and follow these steps: 1. Click on the extension and hit dashboard 2. Select new script 3. Edit the //@ match line to only run the script on Google (shown at

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Recently took a gamble on an HCU victim 🎲 -> This was a legal site that at its best was ranking page 1 for ~100 keywords related to a low-volume high-ticket type of lawsuit. Despite violating many aspects of Google's Guidelines, it never had a manual action but I identified

Recently took a gamble on an HCU victim 🎲 -&gt; This was a legal site that at its best was ranking page 1 for ~100 keywords related to a low-volume high-ticket type of lawsuit.

Despite violating many aspects of Google's Guidelines, it never had a manual action but I identified
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Providing critical CSS is one of the biggest quick wins for page speed, yet only about 30% of WordPress sites I look at do it πŸ™…β€β™‚οΈ Of those, they're using WP Rocket or some other plugin - which is fine but I'm not the hugest fan of depending on a plugin for this. There are 2

Providing critical CSS is one of the biggest quick wins for page speed, yet only about 30% of WordPress sites I look at do it πŸ™…β€β™‚οΈ 

Of those, they're using WP Rocket or some other plugin - which is fine but I'm not the hugest fan of depending on a plugin for this.

There are 2
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I rarely see HTTP 503 served for temporarily unavailable pages despite it being one of the more proper ways to convey that message for SEO. 503, combined with a Retry-After header tells search engines that the page is not permanently gone but will be available in the future.

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Google probably decided to revert to pagination because infinite scroll was getting too expensive. With their level of traffic, I suspect it caused substantial resource consumption and performance bottlenecks. Along with the complex error handling, session management, and

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From what we know so far, the August Update seems like an HCU refinement. My key advice πŸ‘‰ TALK TO PEOPLE Insights from SEO tools < Insights from real users Assessing usefulness and originality is an inherently human thing. As you likely know Google updated their core update

From what we know so far, the August Update seems like an HCU refinement. 

My key advice πŸ‘‰ TALK TO PEOPLE

Insights from SEO tools &lt; Insights from real users

Assessing usefulness and originality is an inherently human thing.

As you likely know Google updated their core update
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This is a test to see how fast Google crawls this page. ciffonedigital.com/services/ For substance below is some content from my Linkedin post today. Next week I'll be starting my 4th "disappeared from Google" audit of the year on a Webflow site. I was skeptical before but now