The domain name Anxiety.org was sold via Sedo last July for the sum of $100,000 dollars.
The price was justified at the time due to a massive number of backlinks and clout commanded by Anxiety.org in search engines such as Google. For more than a decade, the site built up a solid amount of content about anxiety, the most common mental condition in the US with more than $40 million suffering from it.
Since the domain’s sale took place, the new owners of Anxiety.org revamped the web site and changed its content dramatically, as seen in this capture from October of 2023.
According to a now deleted post on Reddit, titled “Anxiety.org plagiarizes content and possibly uses fake doctors,” the content was a collection of “plagiarized” or AI-generated articles and the doctors authoring them were not discoverable on the internet.
We don’t know if these claims were true or not, however Anxiety.org appears to have been deindexed from Google:
Currently, the use of “site:anxiety.org” returns zero results, from the hundreds or thousands of pages that potentially existed prior to the content changes.
In recent days, Google announced that it will take “manual action” against web sites that use certain practices to rank high in its search engine; the measures are a steep step up from typical automated handling of such incidents.
Kudos: Jannes @ NamePros.
