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The mining youtuber who had made a large cryptonews website giving daily uptodate information on the activities going on in the market has been forced to shutdown their website due to the recent google core update.

https://www.ccn.com/ccn-is-shutting-down-after-googles-june-2019-core-update

This is shocking news to me as I followed the guy when he was just starting out with his mining farm in a warehouse and moved into a mega farm based in georgia.

This is really a sad news because I also read the website and it really has improved me in cryptocurrency.
The website has provided adequate and in time news about the happenings about cryptocurrency and it's one website I can give a 75% and above about there news. Hope the shutdown doesn't pull through because this would affect so many crypto news lovers

A devastating news for all of us who really likes the website for bringing us the updates and on time news about crypto.
But there is nothing that we could do about it let's just move on and use other crypto news website to keep us updated there are still other sites that would provide us the same service.

There's a domino effect, same result for other crypto related websites. Search traffic has drop for most of them and as the article says, many other sites (not crypto related) has experienced the same thing. But it's sad to see that the ending of their article is such an expression of their goodbye.  :-\
Google's algo sure hit, affect and changed a lot for these popular websites.

Sad to hear a crypto news site getting shut down.

But isn't it giving up so easily? Other websites are also complaining that their crawl rate has also gone down. It may mean that it is not a targeted shutdown for crypto-related websites. They just need to make the necessary changes to make their crawls rates move up again. If they really love what they are doing, they should at least give everything a try before giving up.

maybe write some factually sourced material next time. not the speculative 'too da moon' stuff and the blanket stories that are just copy and pastes from other media.

if these media sites actually not only used the quote of other media, but actually found the original source and investigated the legitimacy. then people would actually enjoy reading stories from them. and as such not become reliant on google to drag in new readers by googles search engine.

as for the 'blame google' the stats graph show an up shoot to 1.2 where 1.2 only hit once.. and then retreated back down to the 0.6 average. yet ccn wants to cry that it dropped to 0.6 as if 1.2 was the norm

"As data from SEO analyzer Sistrix shows, our visibility on Google dropped from 1.2 to less than 0.6. You might say we ought not to face any issues since we’ve been at those levels and lower, in the past. What you need to realize is that we have added more people to the team, both full-timers and part-timers. We do not want to downsize the team, we do not want to break the morale of the team. So yes, this change by Google is directly having a significant impact on us as a small independent news organization that has never received any outside funding. The money we make made on advertisements was directly funneled back into growing the team"
P.S
"funneled" ..funnelled

in short. they had one good day in june, employed some people then realised their stats went back to normal averages.
so instead of blaming spending income to 'add more people'.. 'grow the team' they want to blame google
so forget media.. this is a tip for business. if you cant fund an employee for a year, you shouldn't be hiring.
offering a full time job, but not guaranteeing their income is bad business practice

anyways
take a look how long it sat at 1.2 for. then look at the whole year and look at the average
https://www.ccn.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Google-June-2019-Core-Update-Visibility-index-ccn.com_.png

pro tips:
improve content
include valid sources
exclude speculative stories
increase content that matters

That shows the reality of media today's. Without ads revenue, they're nothing. This is sad but Journalism depends on advertisements
In the case of CCN I am surprised they give up so quickly, I even wonder if it's not a buzz attempt. Google algorithms are dynamics and not fixed. Who would shut down a site that still makes $.

Rumors are emerging (https://twitter.com/BitcoinGarden/status/1138191288531111941/photo/1) that CCN might be acquired by Scandinavian company Stankevicius MGM. Apparently they bought another dying crypto site last year, too. I'm not sure how reliable these rumors are, though. None of the larger media sites are reporting this yet.

CCN was a neutral when it came to perspective on providing news. But I didn't liked that article they have posted.
By what they said many of the sites have been affected and the way they have taken it personally is wrong.
They don't want to reduce the number of team members but they want to shut down. What's the logic on that? Isn't that a reduction to zero?

^ Yes agreed with the above posts especially with franky1s since they did have copy and paste source type material on their site. But it still does show how google advertising supports even these over exposed sites keep afloat. :-[

So they got bought out. It would be interesting if this rumor did turn out to true. :-\
Because they are reporting on their own websites demise. So it is not giving the complete facts of the situation and only telling what they want to display to the public. Which is one sided.

Here's one idea: CCN announced they were shutting down, then Stankevicius approached them with M&A talks after seeing the headlines. If CCN really knew they were getting bought out, I'm sure they wouldn't have publicly thrown in the towel like that.

Even if Stankevicius is serious, the sale may not happen. They may be trying to be buy them out for pennies.

It started in June 2013 and ended in June 2019. What a shame! they had only Google Adsense as their primary revenue. They had ample time to try other alternatives. They never tried it or thought about it.

What kind of media website is CCN, that bows down in just 10 days without even trying to survive this battle? Blaming Google won't help them in their next endeavor. There are other media websites that have been hit hard, they are not shutting down, they know they cannot because they have loyal followers. Which I think CCN did not have.

What in the @#$% did I just read? I use to like google a few years back but not anymore.

I don't understand exactly what's going and noone else does either. There is a very strange core update. Even none crypto sites were affected.
Now CNN has had its Google ADs deactivated basically. CNN moved to HVY.com  (The link is near the bottom of the article will give you more info)

According to the to graph the poster a few post below me posted, it looks like this is similar to last year.

Who cares Google sucks, same with Microsoft, centralized search browser and OS, That sell your data.

CCN should start up on steem it or dlive or something.

some CCN articles were complete horse shit most of the time just talking about price. Take a look at their page now, 8/9 articles on the front page about price. You will not be missed CCN.

This is the reason for being too depended on a service from private company. Google has become a trademark for internet and anything google don't want's could be easily wiped out of internet if google wants. We should be able to diverge towards other services like duckduck go and other privacy focused search site and indexing sites to counter the monopoly of google.

Don't all of you guys be disappointed. I just checked their visibility index and find out they are actually recovering in a good amount of users.
https://i.imgur.com/FqLjIvB.png
just keep contributing them your support and as of google they really tried not to lose big fishes from their community so maybe they tried their best to fix their brain rank algorithm this time.

I am sad because some good people are going to loose their jobs. But not at all sad because CCN is not getting enough Google traffic! If everything remains the same, no new faces will ever come up in the world of business! Google core update is a part of the continious improvement plan that is so very much required to refresh the contents and their sources! CCN was one of the former leaders in crypto media segment and now someone else will come up. That's the nature of the world and that's how we manage changes!

I personally don't see any reason to shout back to Google just because few websites are getting less number of hits! The reason is simple, either you cope up with changes or you become extinct! That's life!

that is the eventuality that awaits all the low quality content news sites that keep publishing click bait articles. they only gain a huge amount of traffic for a short period of time before people catch up on their click baity-ness and stop visiting such websites.
it is still one of the biggest click bait sites out there though so it is a bit surprising to see the drama they are starting.

Most websites that are affected were on the news (category). Basically based on the article Google is more likely focusing on the SEO because that is how they will distribute their ads.

It is not surprising at all that most of the affected sites are crypto related as Google does not fully support it. Crypto advertisers cannot simply put their ads as it may not pass on google's verification therefore it will cause a pure domino effect to all crypto related sites who lacks crypto related ads which actually makes since.



Agree most of the news sites right now are having the same articles. The problem with CCN right now is they rely their team's salary based on the ad revenues and by that being said it is really not surprising if they would quit that easily if they can no longer pay their staffs.  

ICO's paying a great amount of Money to have paid article run on crypto websites like CCN. Isn't that enough to run that website? Also, there are other advertisement options besides Google they are not like Google but still lucrative enough for a website like CCN.

Something is in any case strange in the whole story, especially if we look at their visibility index in a period of one year. It it true that it was 1.2 before Google make some changes, but it was above 1 only few times, and most of time it was under that number.

I wonder why they did not announce something like this last year when their visibility index drop to almost 0.2? It's funny that somebody just relies on Google traffic, so that means that users who visit their site are not coming back and their earnings depend almost entirely on new users.

whether traffic decreass applies to all search engines or only on Google? Google seems to want to charge search engine costs on popular sites or the webmaster missed updated the solution based on the latest Google core. sad if google search engine traffic on the public internet is charged.

It's probably an excuse they happily grab so that they can justify poor revenue and profit streams to their shareholders. News outlets like CCN have been very poor performers due to their low quality articles.

The bear market very likely plays a role too, because who aside from the few scam IEOs will buy their ad slots? Maybe a gambling site from time to time, but that's not enough for them to sustain themselves with. Meh.

They could have tried to pay people here to post articles on social media like CoinIdol tends to do in an attempt to generate traffic, but with a big team behind the scenes this probably won't be viable either.

Very true even if this was applied to any sort of website out there and not only to these cryptonews sites. ;)

totally crap website which full of shit...there was time this website said xrp will out perform bitcoin hhhhh the web is so danger to uneducated  people in crypto especially websites like this , really i very happy google closed this crap website...

the only place i see smart people in crypto is on reddit ... alot of smart people hide there ... if* you post on reddit that you all in* in projects like bbt or tron or other huge supply shit projects be ready .... its a comedy....

there was someone on reddit say he all in with btt 100b supply coins...the response from few was like this

either he is trolling or even dont try too explain him in which trap this idiot because the answer from this idoit will be BULLISH hhhhhhhhh wihtout trying to understand...

someone else yehhh after alot of years maybe he will get the idea...

someone else on reddit say to someone shill xrp ....yehh xrp still have hope hhhhhh

but i so happy google close this crap website...

totally crap website which very danger to uneducated people in crypto ::) ::) ::)

I'm not really disappointed to what the recent updates on Google's search algorithm brought to most websites but man, Humble Bundle? That website is not publishing any click-baity articles and webpages with ads on literally every corner but just some games which are sold on low prices and with the proceeds going on to some charities. Anyway though, CCN hasn't brought anything that is a complete game-changer in the industry, and that's just my opinion. We know Google sorts their algorithms for better user experience and try to weed out those that seems to be shady or does not deserve to be on the top of the search pages at all.

I'm one of CCN subscribers because they are delivering the latest and fair news about Cryptocurrency but that shutdown will definitely affect their traffic and their online presence, they have complete topics on almost all keywords related to cryptocurrency, Google should update webmasters for any changes and they always do it if you have a webmaster account, this is something weird, I hope it will have a fix.

this is obviously an excuse otherwise anybody who has been around and have seen the articles that they have been publishing over the last year they would know how low quality they are. if you think about it, why doesn't other websites like Coindesk are having any trouble like that? and why is it just these shitty sites that keep publishing low quality copy paste texts from each other are facing trouble?
it is simple, they all had a short lived high traffic that is now coming to an end. whatever Google might have done was only a push in the  direction that they were already on.

totally crap website and i dont going to mention all the bullshit they post over there....but alot of people that uneducated suffer from this webistes

like they was said xrp will beat bitcoin and people fall this trap and live in false hope...

they will ban also great websites crypto like india but for this crap websites i totally happy for then ban

They are. Apparently, their visibility is down about 35% since the update. Cointelegraph experienced a big hit as well. Neither were as bad as CCN's decline, but I'm sure they are all hurting.

Quality has already been going down across the board for a while -- including sites like Coindesk. So, this isn't exactly a good sign for what's to come.

The case when centralized institutes are doing everything to kill decenytralized companies.

So there's more than meets the eye in this story. At first, it seems that google is put in the bad light, however, they are just doing their job of eradicating crap sites. People should be more objective on looking at this matter.

I don't think CCN dependent only on google ads! A lot of crypto projects took CCN for their project promotion and If I am not wrong then CCN took 3 BTC for every promotion! Why they gave up so quickly. Coindesk, Cointelegraph lost their traffic too but they are still moving forward, why not CCN? These three media platforms are my most favourite! It hurts to see CCN dead I hope they will change their decision and google too!

It's disturbing that a single company can decide willy-nilly which media companies will survive and which ones won't according to changes to its algorithms. This ought to awaken the public and stir up a debate on whether Google and other internet service providers have too much power or lack accountability.

They have a large subscriber base and their supporters are posting their news to various forums and social media sites, organic traffic, of course, is very important, but this is not the end for CCN they can hire top-notch webmaster, who can get their site compliant to Google's standard and rank again in SERP in all the keywords that they are targetting.

Google can do whatever they want because they have the power to do that. We know that Google is a big company that is very famous and popular, and if they make an update, all of the websites must follow them, including the big website. But I don't think that Google can interfere with the cryptocurrency world because it's far beyond their power, and I think that is just their strategy to make people panic because of their news. Besides that, we don't know if the news is true or not and we need to wait for another update.

why most of you panic guys?
this is just the google engine algorithm update
just like the YouTube algorithm update a while ago
all they need (CNN) to do is adapt to the Google algorithm

this is not a conspiracy by google to kill crypto (if anyone thinks like this then you are stupid)

I’ve been following CCN from time to time coming from my Facebook feed, and I find their content very valuable and informative in cryptocurrency and blockchain. I’m thankful for them to be honest.

It’s just sad that due to the latest Google Core Update, it made them think to shut their website down for good because of major loss in organic traffic and revenue. I just don’t understand why since they are considered an authoritative website like the other ones.

Is it because Google is cracking down on those crypto-related authoritative websites? But I think they’re not the only ones who are experiencing the significant drop. There are other ones as well.

However, sites like Mirror UK are gaining organic traffic and revenue. Now Google has this so-called “favoritism”?

Even doing proper SEO in the latest update won’t save CCN for good, but I’m just sad that they would throw in the towel after listening to Google’s advice in shutting them down.

I believe there’s still a way for that, and they still have time to change their mind. Hopefully.

This is something a big decision in a very short time period. Even if there is something lacking they should have been notified and further could have taken action after specific grace time.

What Google have done looks a clear favoritism as mentioned in the quote, they should also look into the way it has grown and the right way is to show the right way to get the issues rectified.

They might change the decision over time, and ccn too need to make some plans to continue the service through some way.

So, it seems that CCN will continue working:
https://www.ccn.com/ccn-markets-is-rising-from-the-dead
Really strange story. I hope they will be able to stay in business, despite these changes made by Google.
It's interesting who will benefit most from this Core Update. From CCN articles it seems that UK tabloids have increased their traffic seriously, and we can't be happy about it. And it's obvious that this update didn't worked in favour of crypto websites because all big players lost big part of traffic.
It's shitty when your business totally depends on Google and one change can ruin everything.

This seems to be how the cryptomarket operates too. With one factor playing a role in the grand scheme of things can cause the markets to crash and those who have large holdings in it will suffer immensely.
Yeah it looks like they have dodged a bullet and it could of been how they planned it all along. So to get more exposure to their site through different outlets reporting about them.
Who knows really. :-\

You know, if some of these places chose to find a way to retain their viewers and have a consistent way to pull viewers back into their stories, or at least make it part of their reader's daily reading, they might be able to avoid massive drops like this. While I almost guarantee that Google is pulling some shady bullcrap behind the scenes to suppress these websites, they wouldn't need to be concerned about lower search ratings if they maintained a loyal audience. I don't like Google in the slightest, but a business can't exactly live on being found through searches alone for forever. It needs to build a brand and a reputation which develops loyal customers.

But hey, what isn't getting censored these days? If it isn't a very specific line of thought with a sag towards government control, you're on the chopping block. The only question is when you get cut off.

Who said Google made a change to the algorithm because of ccn? I didn't see any statement by Google to that effect. It's far more likely that ccn made adjustments after seeing the impact of the algorithm and, after just a couple of days, the problems they had from not adjusting are beginning to dissipate thanks to a recent fix. That happens often with SEO, such as when webmasters don't see a Google statement about an algo update and instead see it first in Analytics results.

coindesk is funded by barry silberts DCG.co.. you know the same investment group that pays core devs
coindesk doesnt rely on advert revenue or view counts. DCG pays its article writers to write stuff that are pro DCG agenda

This is really sad news to the team and the whole crypto community especially those who picked their update fromnthis website. Reading the article, you could se the team is really hit by this new development.

It is due to the founder of ccn saying his site was targeted and as franky1 had said coindesk essentially pays the core devs salaries. :-[

Well after all the drama ccn has done stating it will be shutting down it looks they have recovered and are back from the dead with the google algorithm showing it being alright now. :-\

"CCN.com decided to shut their door and stop working thanks to Google Update.
What actually happened is that Google’s June 2019 broad core algorithm update was officially implemented on the 3rd of June. The update is part of a yearly routine by the SEO giants towards ensuring a flawless search engine optimization on their platform. With a major benefit of boosting traffic for already in-demand webpages and diminishing visitors’ influx on their “clickbait” pairs. Google had earlier stated, that it informs its clients about these changes beforehand as the process involves nothing but ’simple fixes’.
However, it seems that Google didn’t inform any of member of crypto community since we had CoinDesk dropping by 34.6%, CoinTelegraph by 21.1% and CCN by enormous 71%.
Its Founder, Jonas Borchgrevink said that while he doesn’t want to speculate whether or not this might have affected their site, he certainly hopes Google isn’t actively suppressing journalism.
”Give a three month’s notice to all webmasters, let alone news organizations, of any major Google Core Update and elaborate what it might affect.”
However, it seems that his tears fell on fertile ground because, in less than three days (may we remind you, that’s quicker than Jesus) they came back from the dead saying that ‘CryptoCoinsNews.com’, their previous domain- is reappearing in Google searches.
Borchgrevink said:
“That was a massive surprise for us as I personally requested a domain name change in 2017 from CryptoCoinsNews.com to CCN.com. Since that change, ‘Cryptocoinsnews.com’ was effectively absent on Google. Now it’s back and is inexplicably using recent 2019 articles from CCN.com. This is abrupt and confusing.”
He also added that whether or not the Google June 2019 Core Update is to blame, that they are fixing it.
“We’re receiving help from multiple SEO teams to understand what has transpired. There’s still a good chance that this won’t correct our visibility on Google overnight, but I’m hopeful we are on the right path to figuring it out.”
Good to have you back our little drama queens."
source https://www.coinspeaker.com/jesus-ccn-back-from-dead
That is the entire story of it so you wouldnt need to click on the source to read about it again unless you want being the reason why I put it there.

But this user has put out a post on his steemit in regards to this entire one off of the google analytical procedure they put these high traffic websites through before accepting and continuing to work with them.
https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@proofmaster/ccn-has-no-right-to-bash-google-for-what-happened-the-seo-landscape-is-constantly-shifting-and-if-you-don-t-adapt-you-fall

They at least know how to run a business and seem to favor Bitcoin, which is a good thing. DCG has been the first wealthy entity that has put money into promoting Bitcoin over Gold with their recent drop Gold TV campaign. Usually you only see this happen with shitcoins, but now Bitcoin is actually reaching mainstream TV. Pretty solid if you ask me.

In the end, regardless of who we are talking about, there is always an agenda steering whatever entity to follow a certain path. Big money is involved so what else can you expect?

They should not give up, they have accomplished a lot they are popular and they had huge subscribers not to mention, they are widely quoted on various forums and social media, they can fix that, Google is not everything it's just part of the site's source of traffic.