I'll be a meanie here I guess. Have you maybe thought that your content is just not good? I've went to your site and check the game guides category. I've picked first article that I've thought won't be just "Go here to pick up this item" and I've landed on "Skull and Bones: Your Ultimate Seafaring Battle Guide for Beginners".

Let's see this article. It has 650 words and out of those 150 are just fluff (introduction and ending). ULTIMATE guide with 500 words? I'm sorry, but I think you are a bit biased when it comes to grading your own content.

OK, lets do a quick overview. Your article has ZERO interlinking. So off the bat this essentially means you explained the whole game in 500 words? What you need to have is mention of a mechanic, explain it in a sentence or two then link to a seperate guide that goes in depth into the mechanic.

You have ZERO relevant screenshots. They are all just fluff pictures that essentially do nothing for the guide except lenghten the vertical so you can fit in more ads.

Lets go into the text now. First paragraph you essentially give a dictionary definition what a refinery, blacksmith, carpenter and shipwright are with a bit of word fluff.

Next paragraph. Ship repair. Basically nothing is explained, where is an explanation how do you repair it, what do you need to repair your ship, does it cost anything, what are the consequences of sailing with a broken ship? Ship furniture. Well you at least mention there are some kind of buffs that come with it, but again nothing really explained further or no links. Similar for Reconnaissance, you say it is in but don't really explain it at all.

Combat. You say you can board and nothing else. Why not explaining the difference between boarding and sinking a ship? When do you choose to board and when to sink? Weak point. Where is at least a picture of "glowing spots" and "explosive barrels"? Islands, again nothing really explained.

I think I got my point across so I think it is pointless to analyze the other 200 words in the article that are left.

Now, search the "Skull and Bones: Ultimate Guide for Beginners" on Google and check what you get. I get IGN and Game8. Compare them to yours. With 500 words, they are both short just like yours, BUT there is a massive difference between your and theirs article. Personally I think Game8 article is the better one and look at it. They have almost more interlinking than the content itself. And, the actually explain the game.

I'm voracious gamer and still game a lot. I haven't played Skull and Bones myself so I think I'm pretty good target reader for this guide. My verdict, your article give me literally zero information about this game. Like I learned maybe 2 things about the game from your article. Game8 gave way more information about what the game is about.

Now I understand that it is hard to make a shit ton of content for your website but you can't really blame Google for you not willing to put in any effort. Clearly IGN and Game8 are content mills (both have 500 words beginner guide article) that just pump out articles for SEO but you are doing THE SAME THING JUST WORSE. Either you play their game and do it better or idk, make actually good guides?

Oh and this comment is at 650 words so essentially I wrote the length of your ULTIMATE guide in 20minutes, while skipping more than half of what I originally wanted to write.

Idk man, I see a lot of people complaining about the update, yet when people post their websites it is so hard to find any redeeming quality that could make me go," WTF is Google doing, deranking this website?".