While I can't be certain, it seems likely that the knee in the curve
below results from this
update.
Note the sudden change in slope on about June 23, 2024. The
computed slope, in downloads per day, for my SAM-1.3 changed from about 3.0 to about
0.3. That is a ten fold decrease. Yikes!
If you read the page at the above link, you will learn that "It
is unclear exactly what type of spam this targets but if you notice any
ranking changes over the coming week, it might be related to this spam
update."
Why then did Google release an update that affected my Rosevear Software site
adversely? My site is not harmful. Neither is it low
quality, but I suspect that the Google filter was not clever enough to
see that these pages, although compact and efficient, are yet high
quality. Note that Google's Spam
policies for Google web search mention quality.
This hurts, but I will continue in good faith.
Here is the graph:
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