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…
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Unconfirmed update – 2 October Google algorithm update
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 …
Page title rewrites – 16 August Google algorithm update
In mid-August, SEOs started reporting a significant increase in Google rewriting page titles in the SERPs. While Google often adapts page titles to…
Link spam update – 26 July Google algorithm update
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…
July 2021 Core Update – 1 July Google algorithm update
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 …
Multitask Unified Model (MUM) – June
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…
Page experience update – 25 June
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…
June 2021 Core Update – 2 June
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 …
Spam updates – 23 June & 28 June Google algorithm update
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 …
Product reviews update – 8 April
On 8 April, Google announced an update specifically targeting product review content. After a testing, experimentation and review process , G…
Featured Snippet recovery – 12 March Google algorithm update
Precisely three weeks after 40% of featured snippets mysteriously disappeared from Google Search, they miraculously reappeared on 12 March with th…
Featured Snippet drop – 19 February Google algorithm update
On 19 February, MozCast reported a 40% decline in visibility for Featured Snippets, which plummeted to their lowest point since 2015. In many case…
Passage indexing – 10 February Google algorithm update
The first algorithm update of 2021 landed on 10 February, commonly referred to as passage indexing although passage ranking is probably a more suit…
The complete list of 2021 Google algorithm updates
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…
