On: Google made me ruin a perfectly good website (2023...

[jacobsimon]

Not saying that’s what happened here, but if people are searching for “images of X” and you remove your image of X, how is that Google’s fault?

[croes → jacobsimon]

Google's USP once was not falling for content farms and their word lists.

Are we back to the early days of search engines?

[CRConrad → jacobsimon]

But this isn't about “images of X”. Nor is it, likely, about whatever "listicle" links OP's site has[1]. It's about people serching for info about, say, "Day at Nürburgring". And OP didn't remove that, now did they? And I bet most of them don't specify either with or without listicles.

So if people were searching for "Day at Nürburgring" and used to find OP's site, then Google changed their algorithm, and now when people search for "Day at Nürburgring" they don't find OP's site, how is that not Google’s fault?

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[1]: And Bog knows Google serves me up enough sites with those on...

[jacobsimon → CRConrad]

You can't say what it's about without seeing exactly where the traffic and rankings decreased and looking at the Google search console. I'm happy to take a look out of curiosity if the OP wants to share.