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The Coronavirus Test - Is it Safe to Remove the Advisory Notes From the Website?

The website that is being used for the test is owned by one of the largest pet retailers in the world. The purpose of the test is to see if removing the advisory notes will make a difference in the amount of traffic the website gets, or if it won't have an effect. Google did not care about these pages and they were not a burden on their website in terms of ranking. There was no significant change overall, with a very small dip of 0.9% which is normal variation between groups and should not be attributed to the change. However, this change does include the removal of something which most visitors will consider unimportant. Google had a statement about an AI system called MUM that influences rankings for pages with information about the coronavirus. Some people think that including repetitive content on a website that is not related to the main topic of the website can hurt the website's ranking. However, there is no reason to believe that the notes about the coronavirus were what was holding the website back. We don't have all the answers, but we do know that it is safe to remove the advisory notes from the website.

(source: https://www.semrush.com/blog/seo-split-test-resul-removing-covid-advisory-notes-too-soon)