November 2021 spam update – 3 November
On November 3, Google announced another spam update, the fourth one rolled out this year. While this update was significant, it only affected websi…
On November 3, Google announced another spam update, the fourth one rolled out this year. While this update was significant, it only affected websi…
Over the weekend of 2-3 October, SEOs and reporting tools signalled major volatility in the SERPs with the kind of fluctuations you would normally …
In mid-August, SEOs started reporting a significant increase in Google rewriting page titles in the SERPs. While Google often adapts page titles to…
On July 26, Google announced a link spam update that would roll out over the coming two weeks but, ultimately, took a full month to finish roll…
Google didn’t hang around with the July 2021 Core Update, rolling it out on the first day of the month. The follow-up to the June 2021 Core Update …
Google rolled out its Multitask Unified Model (MUM) on an unspecified date in June 2021 and the busy summer of updates makes it difficult to pinpoi…
Google announced the page experience signal in June 2020 , giving us plenty of time to prepare for the update on 25 June, 2021. The update combin…
On 2 June, Google took the surprising step of announcing not one, but two core algorithm updates – one rolling out later in the day and another in …
The next summer surprise from Google was a spam update announced on 23 June via Twitter. Once again, Google told us that another spam update would …
On 8 April, Google announced an update specifically targeting product review content. After a testing, experimentation and review process , G…
Precisely three weeks after 40% of featured snippets mysteriously disappeared from Google Search, they miraculously reappeared on 12 March with th…
On 19 February, MozCast reported a 40% decline in visibility for Featured Snippets, which plummeted to their lowest point since 2015. In many case…
The first algorithm update of 2021 landed on 10 February, commonly referred to as passage indexing although passage ranking is probably a more suit…
This year, we’ve had 10 algorithm updates announced and/or confirmed by Google. Every year, there are an unknown number of unconfirmed updates, mos…