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Checked 100 old competitors in 2026: 85 are gone. Is niche publishing dead or reborn with AI?

So back in 2018 I started a small affiliate site. Did it for about 5 years—never made crazy money, just some decent side income—and eventually just abandoned it. Fast forward to now, I decided to get back into the exact same niche with a new domain, mostly because vibe coding with Claude made it stupidly easy to build actual web tools and calculators. Back then I couldn't code and couldn't afford devs, but now I can ship a working tool in like 20 minutes. I pulled up KeySearch to check on ~100 sites that were my main competitors back then. Honestly it’s a total ghost town: Around 80-85 of those domains don't even exist anymore. Fully deactivated. The few that are still live lost almost 95%+ of their traffic. Sites that used to pull 600k-700k monthly visits now get the same traffic as a 2-months-old blog. I know the old 2018 playbook (cheap product reviews for SEO) is long dead. But seeing the actual data still shocked me. Which brings me to my question for anyone s...
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What in the hades happened to SEOQuake?

The UI has been updated, and they removed many features in their new version. There is no longer an SEOquake bar. I can't highlight domains (Overlay feature) in the SERP anymore. This was my power tool. Now I'm back to using the browser's find command. Any alternatives to highlighting domains in the SERP? submitted by /u/YogaPhotographer [link] [comments] from The SEO Authority https://ift.tt/DolasNc
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Seeing huge click drop in google search console, but not in GA4 organic-google

I am seeing a huge click drop (~40%) in google search console since Aug 10 (3.6K -> 3.5K -> 3.2K -> 2.8K -> 2.3K), I see the rank went down as well. Strangely, the GA4 (traffic source - Google report) the number does not drop at all (4.5K -> 4.3K -> 4.1K -> 3.9K -> 4.1K, normal week-day pattern), my site is an app landing page, I verify the incoming user to the app using app log, confirm there is no drop. Is the Google search console data recently has issue? Or is there anything I missed? Any one experience the same? Thanks! submitted by /u/Due_Caramel3612 [link] [comments] from The SEO Authority https://ift.tt/63HokbF
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One of the cheapest SEO wins you can make right now in the age of AI is to translate your website. My website increased impressions and clicks just by adding more locales.

A good friend and I keep going back and forth on best SEO practices. I keep coming up with new ideas and hacks to maximize impressions, clicks, or CTR, and he keeps being skeptical and course-correcting whenever he feels I went too much. One of the suggestions I came up with a few weeks ago was translation. My website increased in pages. It went from 170 pages to around 500, and I added around 8 locales in the first wave, of course all translated by AI. The mistake that we picked up on in this operpation was to not properly set up the language picker in its html structure so it redirects the googlebots for more effective crawling, the pages were orphaned, but as soon as we fixed it, the pages got indexed properly and the impressions and clicks skyrocketted. I started seeing more foreign queries and I started seeing my best performing page being picked up by other locales and languages and over a few weeks, it started averaging 1000 impressions with +40 clicks every. Last week I went...
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