This week, we dove more into the Google May 2022 broad core update, stories of those hit, how Google looks at the data prior to the rollout and more. Google also hinted that useful nofollow links, despite the policy change in 2019, still don’t count for much of anything. Google suspended the job training rich […]
Last week, on May 26th, Google released the long awaited Google May 2022 core update. The update really kicked into high gear quickly, with a ton of volatility noticed within 24-hours after it was formally launched. In my opinion, this update was one of the bigger core updates or Google algorithm updates we’ve seen in […]
Google’s John Mueller was asked what are the timeframes for the data used when calculating quality metrics for the Google broad core updates. John said that there is a lot of “work that’s done well in advance” and “usually with data collected until then,” then being just before it rolls out. But John added “and […]
After over six months of waiting, we finally got a new Google broad core update, the May 2022 core update, I discuss some of what we are seeing early on. Also, we saw a lot of ranking volatility over the past couple of weeks – was this related? Google said the inclusive schema for image […]
Google Search has started to roll out the first broad core update of the year, the May 2022 broad core update. It started on May 25, 2022 at about 11:30am ET and will now roll out for the next couple of weeks. So far, we are seeing many signs that this May 2022 core update […]
We had our first unconfirmed update of the Google search ranking algorithm in 2022, it was on January 11th. Google admitted that there is a backlog in responding to manual actions. Google said they want to share more details about core updates, but aren’t allowed to. IndexNow co-sharing URLs are now fully live between Microsoft […]
In the current Search Off The Record podcast, John Mueller, Gary Illyes and Martin Splitt debate whether and what they should share in the Google core updates. It seems like Gary Illyes wants Google to provide more details on each of the updates so that SEOs can act on them, but if not, stop announcing […]
The government is facing some of the same problems that many companies grapple with on a daily basis. To add an additional level of conflict, Many solutions do not provide a holistic picture of what has been done and what needs to be done to achieve overarching goals. The concept of “visual intelligence” was born […]
One crazy week to end a crazy month of Google changes this is how this SEO video roundup can be summed up. Google completed the rollout of the November 2021 core update on Tuesday afternoon, November 30th. 60% of SEOs said they didn’t see any changes on this core update. One day later, on Wednesday, […]
Happy Thanksgiving – we had another surprise from Google, where the second wave of Google’s core November 2021 update took place on Wednesday and Thursday – yes, the busiest time for online shopping. Previously there was a survey that said 50% of SEOs hadn’t noticed any changes from the core update. Google has introduced a […]