What happened to Cointelegraph?

[shield132]

When I find on Bitcointalk someone sharing news from a barely known news website, I always type the title in a search engine to check whether the same or similar news is published by other famous news websites. Recently I noticed that I no longer see a result from Cointelegraph in Google. Today, I tried to type Cointelegraph.com in Google's search engine and I didn't get any result. Did Google completely remove Cointelegraph from its search engine? That's strange, Google hasn't removed torrent websites from its search engine and what issue did they have with Cointelegraph?

[crwth]

Upon using Google, I did see that Cointelegraph isn't appearing at the top or anywhere on the first page, but with Bing, it's the top link. For Google, it's mostly tweets, with no direct link to the site. Even on the right, it's just the company's background.

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This is pretty weird. Thankfully, it's easy for me to check their published news with Telegram. I used the link below. Maybe it has been reported or something.

https://t.me/cointelegraph

[hopenotlate]

lol yep.
I also often read Cointelegraph to keep up to date with the news and I had never noticed what you said: I use DuckDuck Go as my default search engine and Cointelegraph normally appears among the results there but I tried a Google search and indeed it does not appear among the results whilst their Twitter handle shows up amongst the first results.

Weird.

[Oshosondy]

This is true, I also tried it now it it is not showing anything than their post on X, their app and other things that you can not use to access the site home page. I was unable to see any news or home page of the site.

But if you include the .com to it, I mean cointelegraph.com, you will be able to access the site and see the latest news.

[avp2306]

When I find on Bitcointalk someone sharing news from a barely known news website, I always type the title in a search engine to check whether the same or similar news is published by other famous news websites. Recently I noticed that I no longer see a result from Cointelegraph in Google. Today, I tried to type Cointelegraph.com in Google's search engine and I didn't get any result. Did Google completely remove Cointelegraph from its search engine? That's strange, Google hasn't removed torrent websites from its search engine and what issue did they have with Cointelegraph?

Looks like cointelegraph SEO dropped and maybe this is the reason on why they can't be found when people search them on google.

I also  tried to use microsoft bing and their site show up at top the same as what @crwth shown.



Also if you used brave you can see their site there.

So most likely there's an issue on their SEO that's why it didn't show up when we use google.

[ABCbits]

I just tried searching "cointelegraph" on Google (while using VPN) and surprised the website isn't shown on the first 5 pages. So rather than bad SEO, it seems something wrong on either cointelegraph website or google side. Although i don't expect google intentionally blacklist/remove cointelegraph due to their mixed quality news/article.

[noorman0]

I think this is the reason:

Cointelegraph’s traffic was destroyed by Google’s algorithm and crypto media is in trouble
Google’s Update Wiped Out 1M Monthly Visits from Cointelegraph
Earlier in 2025, Cointelegraph’s traffic saw modest dips of less than 2% in May and June. Traffic peaked at 8.08 million visits in July 2025 after that — a strong 42% month-over-month increase.

However, after reaching the July peak, its traffic fell by 12.4% to 7.08 million in August and then further by 14.8% to 6.03 million in September. Preliminary October estimates suggest around 5 million visits, meaning Cointelegraph has been losing roughly 1 million visits per month for the past three months — a decline unseen in previous years.

Source

[Yaunfitda]

I just tried searching "cointelegraph" on Google (while using VPN) and surprised the website isn't shown on the first 5 pages. So rather than bad SEO, it seems something wrong on either cointelegraph website or google side. Although i don't expect google intentionally blacklist/remove cointelegraph due to their mixed quality news/article.

Probably it's because of the geo-location too that's why some will show up the website, while for others it was buried down. And Google from time to time changes it's algo and it's SEO features. So what works for the last year or so might not work for now because of the changes. In any case that for some Cointelegraph is a reliable source of news, there are Decrypt, Coindesk and the Block. As for other crypto related sites that are not well known of, usually they will get their feed from this big news outlet.

[Solosanz]

It's good to see Cointelegraph to be like this because they usually share misleading or false information about Bitcoin, I think it's not a threat or problem for Bitcoin, but this could be a good time for other medias who create high quality and appropriate contents to rise.

Based on above user article, we might likely see them in the next year Q1.

[aioc]

I think this is the reason:

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From the source:

Can Cointelegraph Recover?
History suggests that even the most severe algorithmic blows aren’t always permanent. Websites that once seemed buried have rebounded through systematic adaptation. Cointelegraph’s fall is dramatic, but not necessarily final.

I consider them to be one of the top Crypto media I am subscribed to their newsletter so I need not use Google to find them, but 32% direct traffic from search engine is such a huge loss, they need a good webmaster to sync their algo to Google's so they can be found again on the popular terms related to Cryptocurrency.