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The Verge new york times ABC News time cbs local guardian bloomberg NPR CBS News atlantic politiko univision Before we get to the results, we need to explain a little about Ahrefs data. We have hundreds of millions of search terms and tons of clickstream data. We use this data to estimate organic traffic by looking at all the different queries users search, the position his website occupies within search results, and where users click. For core updates, we decided to look at the traffic at the start of the Google core update and after 14 days. This is to give


Google time to roll out changes to different datacenters. It also gives you time to reflect changes in your data. Our data are normalized in the sense that trade volumes are averaged over 12 months, so we primarily have to account for seasonality, with the exception of elections as they are Australia Phone Number Data  not annual. Also, while new articles and search topics may not appear early, you will want to capture popular searches and related clickstream data later. result From 2015 to now, average traffic for top news sites in each category has declined during Google Core Updates. Conservative total traffic decline: -2.65% Liberal total traffic decline: -1.78% Considering the traffic of 50 websites and a 6-year period, these numbers are actually very similar and not statistically


   



significant. Until the last election in 2016, the impact on both categories was roughly equal. Looking at the results from the previous year or so in the run-up to the 2020 election, we see that the impact is roughly equal in both categories, with the Conservative Party's website doing better in terms of recent updates. Looking at individual data points, both Conservative and Liberal news sites saw positive and negative impacts with each of these Google core updates. Each boxplot below represents the top websites in each category. Again, every update has winners and losers in both categories. Whether a site wins or loses in a core update usually has more to do with the quality of the site than anything else.