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In this episode I do a compare and contrast between an honest and transparent sharing of an established publisher who got caught in a helpful content snare and my analysis of sites that I consulted on before that led me to discover what was the culprit.
Spoiler alert.
The experience and my analysis lined up perfectly.
Then I shared my own examination of the site aided by Google LLM. And then a path to recovery but not by undoing what is there but by getting the site to be classified as a specific type of site that by all experiences is exempt from HC rules.
We're close to having a TOC wordpress plugin that does NOT "confuse" Googlebots. https://carolynholzman.com/fix-the-canonical-scoring-in-helpful-content/
Last week's episode - https://www.confessionsofanseo.com/podcast/google-agrees-with-me-about-toc-links-season-5-ep-20/
Mentioned in the show:
The Article: DMARGE
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