This day in search marketing history: March 13
Google hides organic search listings plus: broad core search algorithm update, Panda updates, author rank, incremental ad clicks and more.
Topic: Diffusing update algorithm
Google February 2023 product reviews update more volatile than previous updates, say data providers
Semrush compared the sixth release against the July 2022 version, while Rank Ranger compared it against September 2022 data.
This day in search marketing history: March 9
Google's Fred update, plus: people also ask, personalization, Google puts bad merchants on notice and more.
This day in search marketing history: March 5
Google confirms Vince Update, plus: mobile-first indexing, webspam, Google adds page load time to Quality Score algorithm and more.
This day in search marketing history: February 27
Google Panda Update 3.3 and Venice, plus: GSC domain properties, Google Scraper Report, XML sitemaps change and more.
This day in search marketing history: February 24
Google unleashes the Panda update, plus: E-A-T patent, AMP Top Stories, Overstock's Google penalty, optimize by conversions and more
Google helpful content system can now impact Google Discover visibility
Google core updates and other algorithm updates impacted Discover, but now Google says the helpful content system does as well.
Google releases February 2023 product reviews update
This update brings new languages to the product reviews update including English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, and Polish.
This day in search marketing history: February 10
Google refreshes Page Layout Algorithm, plus: Google's ads impact on advertisers, poor grammar, Google Buzz reaction and more
Is AI-written content replacing cheap old content farms?
Red Ventures' use of AI to write cheap content that ranks well in search sure sounds like the old content farms Google Panda wiped out.
This day in search marketing history: January 19
Google's page layout algorithm, plus: Matt Cutts resigns from Google, Top Stories deduplication, mobile usability warnings and more.
Google’s December 2022 helpful content update is now done rolling out
The update started on December 5th and completed 38 days later on January 12th.
This day in search marketing history: January 12
Google Panda becomes a core ranking signal, plus: R.I.P. link command, Google Japan’s PageRank penalty expires and more.
5 times you’ll need an expert SEO in 2023
If you don’t enlist the help of a true professional for these five scenarios, you are risking rankings, traffic and revenue in 2023.
Google’s December 2022 helpful content and link spam updates still rolling out
Google said these updates may take one to two weeks longer to complete.
Ranking data during the December 2022 Google helpful content update and link spam update
The data providers sent us data looking at the Google Search results over the last couple of weeks.
E-E-A-T and major updates to Google’s quality rater guidelines
The most important change to the QRG is the introduction of the letter E to the start of the popular acronym E-A-T.
Google helpful content system update rolling out now (December 2022 update)
This update adds new signals and also brings the helpful content update globally for all languages.
Location pages in Google’s crosshairs after October spam update
Ranking drops and deindexed pages are plaguing service area business sites. Let's explore the potential cause and what local SEOs can do.
7 tips to turn Google’s Search Essentials into strategy
Building an SEO strategy around the Search Essentials documentation gives you the best chance to boost your clients' Google performance.
Google adds more example categories of sites that may be impacted by the product reviews update
Three new examples were added to the how to write product reviews Google help document.
Google September 2022 product reviews update rollout complete
This update impacted English-language product reviews and overlapped with Google's September 2022 core update.
Google’s September 2022 core update hit fast but was less significant than previous updates
The data is in from the tracking tools and here is what these tools are showing with the latest Google algorithm update.
Google releases September 2022 product reviews update
This is the fifth Google product reviews update that comes out about a month after the last update.
Google releases September 2022 broad core update
This update will take about two weeks to complete and follows the helpful content update that completed last Friday.
Google: Helpful content update isn’t done
SEOs were expecting a massive impact, but it hasn't materialized. Google's Danny Sullivan says the update will continue to be refined.
SEOs feel content ahead of Google helpful content update
Most SEOs are taking a wait-and-see approach to the helpful content update, but many SEOs are confident their content is helpful.
What is helpful content, according to Google
Google is about to launch its helpful content update. So what exactly is helpful content? Here’s what Google has told us.
Google to release August 2022 product reviews update in coming weeks
The fifth version of the Google product reviews update will be rolling out after the helpful content update.
Google July 2022 product reviews update had very little ranking volatility, say data providers
As a reminder, this update started on July 27th and ran for six days through August 2nd.
Google July 2022 product reviews update is finished rolling out
It took only six days to roll out, we expected it to take at least 14 to 21 days to roll out.
Why and how to delete content in bulk for SEO
Deleting content, as part of a larger strategy to improve content quality and increase topical authority, makes sense. Here's proof.
Google releases July 2022 product reviews update
This update, the fourth Google product reviews update, will take 2-3 weeks to roll out.
Google May 2022 core update is finished rolling out
This update took 15 days to roll out and is now done, you should now dig in and see how your site was impacted and what actions to take next.
Google’s May 2022 core update was significant and hit fast
The data is in early from the tracking tools and here is what these tools are showing with the latest Google algorithm update.
Google releases May 2022 broad core update
Over six months since the last core update, Google is now rolling out this new broad core update.
Google March 2022 product reviews update is finished rolling out
Almost three weeks after Google launched the 3rd version of the product reviews update, it is now done rolling out.
Google’s March 2022 product reviews update was smaller than the December 2021 product reviews update, say data providers
As a reminder, the Google product reviews update looks for in-depth analysis, actual product use, unique information and comparable product coverage.
Google releases March 2022 product reviews update with additional ranking criteria
The new product reviews update looks for in-depth analysis, actual product use, unique information and comparable product coverage.
To disavow or not? Getting it right, 10 years later.
Determine whether a link disavow is needed and avoid costly mistakes.