One of my affiliate website has been hit by this maccabee update... If I understood well the reasons posted on the latest news here: https://www.digitalpoint.com/ Is it an onpage update right? My question is: Is it possible to recover from this kind of penalization? The hit website had 1500 words content and 17 affiliate links... but still the affiliate backlinks were hidden, I put them through a goto page...
Yeah, its a google core algorithm update formely known as Fred update. Its hit the sites that are using same keyword variations for different articles to hike rankings.
Thank you. My website was targeting the keyword "Electric lawnmower" (not targeting google.com though, it's a local site). But I also had an article trying to ranking "Riding lawn mower"... is this considered the same keyword variation? It seems pretty unfair to me though, are different products... Are long tails gone after this update then?
Yeah this might be the same keyword variations as the Major affiliate site also get hit by this update. Read more about it here:- https://www.seroundtable.com/google-maccabees-update-analysis-24951.html
Do you have anything other than that link to suggest that this is version two of the Fred update or that it is based around keyword variations?
This update is solely about keyword variations and has impacted majority of affiliate websites and blogs.
It is strange but my sites has improved from eighth posisition to second in first page. I guess the update has helped most of my sites to rank better than earlier.
That's 100% your opinion with nothing to back it up other than the same blog post most people are linking to as a reference when using this keyword variation reason for the rollout ....