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Google has completed the rollout of its most important update for 2026. Google's core update 2.

This update focused on erasing bot impressions (yes lots of AI agents and LLMs now have google search capabilities and many of them only scrape the SERPs they don't make clicks.) This inflate impressions and lowered CTR.

Core update 2 also de-indexed billions of AI generated pages, low quality pages, etc., a lot of pages were also pushed further downwards because this update made a lot of changes to how Google determines helpful contents.

Amazingly, (and you'd understand why this is amazing if you have been following my posts here on Nairaland), non of my pages were de-indexed! In fact about 200 more pages were indexed after core update 2!

Due to core update 2, I suspended all optimization features I was working on to see how the update itself affects my contents. Also I have been working mainly on my SaaS. However, my overall CTR has now improved to 0.4% and my impressions remain high exepcially as new keywords are getting indexed.

Blogging these days na more like just be writing long story to look busy , straight up boring

bmd1010:
Blogging these days na more like just be writing long story to look busy , straight up boring

True but I am not blogging, I am building distribution for my saas. This makes it more enjoyable and easier to endure the long wait. It takes about a year of active work for efforts to start bringing in decent income.

Also my SEO, so far is 💯💯💯

ChristCee:
True but I am not blogging, I am building distribution for my saas. This makes it more enjoyable and easier to endure the long wait. It takes about a year of active work for efforts to start bringing in decent income.

Also my SEO, so far is 💯💯💯

Yh every one seo is far 100% until another update n start wondering what did u do wrong .

bmd1010:
Yh every one seo is far 100% until another update n start wondering what did u do wrong .

Sometimes an update might actually push your rankings up. It's not always negative. For me, this particular update seems to be a big plus for my SEO efforts.

ChristCee:
Sometimes an update might actually push your rankings up. It's not always negative. For me, this particular update seems to be a big plus for my SEO efforts.

Yh n sometimes it shoots up just to have each page getting removed later

bmd1010:
Yh n sometimes it shoots up just to have each page getting removed later

I have automated processes that research my pages that are loosing rankings, then it compares them to pages that are actually displacing them, it uses that information to update those pages ensuring they retain their ranking or even attain improved rankings. Google love pages that are getting frequently updated and I am actually doing this at scale.

But again, SEO is so hard only people like you and I that are in the game can understand. That's why I always tell people reaching out to me for gigs that SEO is no child's play, it's not something you do and forget, it's something that evolves every single minute.

Per above results
This is newbie SEO job

CTR keeps on getting better! Now at 0.7 CTR within a 24 hour window... mind you, we still have few more hours to go for today
Average position seems lower, it actually flunctuates a lot and this is a very good sign. It simply means more keywords are getting ranked albeit at much lower positions. Having one keyword on position 3 is not as good as having a hundred keywords at position 8

More clicks and counting and for today
So it's safe to say my SEO tactics are 💯💯💯💯💯💯

For your saas, are you mainly targeting nigerians or foreigners? I am also building one.

frank417:
For your saas, are you mainly targeting nigerians or foreigners? I am also building one.

Nigerians keh? Foreigners o, USA mainly. Something I priced for 699USD on the mid-range plan. Nigerians do not have the purchasing power for tools like what I am building and to start with, the sort of startups that need such tools are not in our Naija.

Every single person on my waitlist right now are from the USA

The update pushed this one-product-website to 30+ daily clicks. It was 10-20 clicks before.

After the update, it moved down to 10 to 15 daily clicks. I noticed something has happened but I allowed it to normalize by itself.

Just hearing about the update now. I always do my seo without minding google and their updates.

I got about 4 sites on 30 to 50 daily clicks now.

Currently targeting 50 to 100 on either of them.

I’ve sold out my 60+ sites due to selling Adsense on them - biggest mistakes so far.


Focus on your interlinking and it does wonders; even without much external backlinks.