Video: Lily Ray on recovering after a Google core update

Here are tips from Lily Ray on how to fix a site that was hit by a Google core algorithm update.

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I spoke with Lily Ray of Path Interactive at its NYC office on the topic of Google core algorithm updates. I asked Lily, a Search Engine Land author and SMX speaker, how her team approaches the task of helping its new customers who were negatively impacted by a core update improve their rankings. As you know, Google said there are no fixes for core algorithm updates but as you also know, you cannot tell your clients – sorry, we can’t fix it.

In this video interview we discussed how sites need to build trust through their staff and authors. We also discussed the challenges she faces when convincing her clients that their internal staff need to take a more active role in the web site content. The conversation went into the issues with Google being more or less transparent around these algorithm updates.

I started this vlog series recently, and if you want to sign up to be interviewed, you can fill out this form on Search Engine Roundtable. You can also subscribe to my YouTube channel by clicking here.


About the author

Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.

In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.

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