Google’s Final Reviews Update: What To Know About the November 2023 Update
In November 2023, Google announced a significant update to its review system, making a pivotal change in how review-based content will be evaluated and ranked moving forward. This reviews update began on November 8, 2023, and concluded after 29 days. Key Features and Impact The latest reviews update is global, affecting content across multiple languages […]
Unpacking the Google November 2023 Core Update
The November 2023 Core Update by Google, marking the fourth major update of the year, concluded its rollout on November 28, 2023. Starting on November 2, this update spanned 26 days, overlapping with the Reviews Update that began on November 8. Today we released the November 2023 core update. We'll update our ranking release history […]
Google’s October 2023 Core Update: Its Impact and Key Recovery Tactics
Google’s October 2023 Core Update, officially rolled out between October 5 and October 19, 2023, marks a significant change in the search engine’s ranking algorithm. This update, the third major core update of the year following those in March and August, aims to refine Google’s search quality and enhance the visibility of high-quality, relevant content. […]
October 2023 Spam Update: Understanding the Changes and Recovery Strategies
Google’s October 2023 Spam Update, launched on October 4, 2023, represents a significant effort to combat various forms of spam in search results. This algorithm update targets cloaking, hacked content, auto-generated content, and scraped spam, with a pronounced focus on languages like Turkish, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Hindi, and Chinese, although it impacts English as well. The […]
Google’s September 2023 Helpful Content Update: Exploring What’s New in the Helpful Content System
On September 14, 2023, Google rolled out a new helpful content update to enhance the way content is ranked and presented to users, wrapping it up by September 28th. This change, part of the helpful content system, has tweaked several aspects of how websites should approach content creation and hosting, especially AI-generated content and third-party […]
Google’s August 2023 Core Updates: How to Handle It
Five months after the first core update of the year, Google rolled out yet another series of core updates that aimed to refine how websites are ranked. Google announced the second update last August 22, 2023. The rollout took 16 days to complete and was finally completed by September 7, 2023. Understanding Core Updates […]
Google’s April 2023 Reviews Updates: Changes to Watch Out For
The April 2023 reviews update is the expanded update of the product reviews updates. This new algorithm update goes beyond evaluating reviews of products to evaluating content related to reviews of products, services, games, movies, destinations, and more. The algorithm update may impact any site that publishes content related to these types of reviews. The […]
Google’s March 2023 Broad Core Updates: How to Recover When Hit by the Latest Update
Six months after the last broad core update, Google announced on Twitter the rollout of the latest broad core update this March 2023. The update rollout lasted 13 days and was completed on March 28, 2023. Google updated its ranking release history page on the day of completion, which shows the rollout was released. However, […]
Google’s February 2023 Product Reviews Update: What To Expect
Google released the latest product reviews update on February 21, 2023. This latest product reviews update expands previous updates from English to apply to several more languages. Languages included in the update: Spanish German French Italian Vietnamese Indonesian Russian Dutch Portuguese Polish Rollout Duration The update was announced in a Google tweet, and the rollout […]
Google’s December 2022 Link Spam Update: What You Need To Know
On December 14, 2022, Google released the latest link spam update. In this update, sites lost search ranking credits that resulted from unnatural or spammy links. This update impacted site rankings across a variety of site types. The update also extended to all languages. In this update, Google used SpamBrain, its AI-based spam-prevention system, for […]
