B
Evidence Grade B
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3,200,000
3,200,000 -- organic traffic for CNN Underscored (2024-12)
CNN Underscored had 3.2 million organic visits prior to Google's manual action in November 2024.
- Peak / pre-penalty organic traffic before manual action deindexed CNN Underscored to under 1K
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3,200,000
Unit
Count
Data Vintage
2024-12
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Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Ahrefs
Primary
Tier B
https://growtika.com/blog/publisher-affiliate-collapse ↗
Source Article
From 23.6M to 11K: How Google Killed Rent-a-Domain
Forbes Advisor: 23.6M visits → 11K. CNN Underscored: 3.2M → under 1K. Two sites shut down entirely. Every data point from Ahrefs, every timeline, every policy change. The full autopsy of the Rent-a-Domain model.
By Yuval Halevi · February 2026 · 12 min read
Forbes Advisor. CNN Underscored. WSJ Buy S…
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Ahrefs
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Methodology
Manual action by Google on Nov 20, 2024; Ahrefs data
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CNN Underscored: 3,200,000 organic traffic. Source: Ahrefs (2024-12). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/cnn-underscored-traffic-decline
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