{"id":4121,"date":"2025-05-19T05:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T05:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/?p=4121"},"modified":"2025-05-19T05:26:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T05:26:16","slug":"bikegremlin-site-got-hit-with-google-hcu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/bikegremlin-site-got-hit-with-google-hcu\/","title":{"rendered":"BikeGremlin Site Got Hit with Google HCU"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Did Google dropped rankings for BikeGremlin site? <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a recent post by <strong>BikeGremlin<\/strong> (bikegremlin.com) owner stated that their site seems to be hit with Google core update does started declining in clicks and impressions as per the GSC screenshot they posted. I suspect the Google HCU (helpful content update) hit the site and it started to tank in rankings. I could see the site was getting anywhere around 2K+ unqiue visitors (clicks) a day from Google.com search which fell beyond 60% just in one year. Now their posts do not rank even if the suffix is added as &#8220;bikegremlin&#8221;. The site is about tech and bikes (cycles). I&#8217;ve found that after the Google March core update and AI overviews in search results the site got less and less visitors. That site has really researched and long-form articles. It might be Google now-a-days picks and ranks articles and posts which satisfy the user&#8217;s search intent within first 100 or 150 words. My SEO guru friend was telling me that Google now prefers short content. For example if someone writes a recipe blog, it should display the actual instructions at the top. Gone are the days when people used to write a 1000 to 2000 word article.<\/p>\n<!-- CONTENT END 1 -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did Google dropped rankings for BikeGremlin site? In a recent post by BikeGremlin (bikegremlin.com) owner stated that their site seems to be hit with Google&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kb_optimizer_status":0,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[160,164,166],"class_list":["post-4121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum","tag-blogging","tag-ranking","tag-seo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}