It turned out to be a busy week as we have a confirmed update to the Google search algorithm – the November spam update that is being rolled out. I also published my monthly Google Webmaster Report. Google has announced that the Page Experience Update for the desktop will be rolled out from February 2022 […]
Google announced last night that it had started rolling out a new algorithm update to target search spam. The new update is called the November Spam Update and should take about a week to fully roll out. Google continued Twitter “As part of our regular work to improve results, we’ve released a spam update for […]
Marie Haynes posted another one Twitter Has your website ever been affected by a Google core update? With 266 votes, which is not a huge number, it shows that most SEOs will be negatively affected by a Google core update. If you remove the “Other / Show Results” section, the results will be broken down […]
This week we almost made it without reporting an update to the Google search ranking, but we had one, maybe on October 26th. There is confusion about Google’s continuous scrolling and the impact it has on Search Console reporting. Google said when it comes to web search, images really don’t matter on your pages. The […]
There could have been one Update of the Google search ranking algorithm on the smaller side on or around October 26th. There was both limited chatter that day and limited that it was more than the norm but less than a huge update. And many of the tools showed increased volatility on or around October […]
After over a year without updating the Google Search Quality Rating Guidelines – Google made several updates to the document yesterday, October 19, 2021. The last update was on a little over a year ago October 14, 2020. This time the document has been expanded from 175 to 172 pages – i.e. shortened a little. […]
I’m leading with I’m sorry to report another one Update of the Google search ranking algorithm – another unconfirmed. But as I said on Friday, there seemed to be one going on and it seems that Google had some fluctuations from October 15th to date and the chatter in the SEO community supports this time […]
In the last few days, the Google Search Tracking Tools showed sometimes enormous change peaks in the Google search results. Some didn’t, many did. The chatter didn’t really coincide with the spikes. So many ask me if there was one Google search update? I’m sure some UI changes may have triggered the tools. Maybe it […]
There were some indications of a possible Update of the Google search ranking algorithm which touched down on October 6th, got a little stronger on October 7th and fizzled out today, October 8th. The tools aren’t as crazy as at Update from last weekend but this time there is more chatter. This is not confirmed, […]
I know I sound like a broken record, but we have another unconfirmed one Update of the Google search ranking algorithm over the weekend. This one, according to the tracking tools off the charts, is huge, massive and all those funny adjectives. The weekend chatter doesn’t match what the tools show, at least not yet. […]