Now that the September helpful content update has finished, it's time for me to dig in and analyze.
If you were impacted, I would love for you to submit your site in this form.
I'll send you a summary of my notes once I've completed my analysis.
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To better surface relevant, expert, and knowledgeable content in Google Search and News, we developed a system called topic authority that helps determine which expert sources are helpful to newsy queries in certain specialized topic areas. Read more: https://t.co/y8G0HbqMJO
Today we released the February 2023 product reviews update, which applies to these languages globally: English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Polish. It'll take ~2 weeks to fully roll out. More here: https://t.co/YpNnK97G3O
I shared a great example earlier this morning... Google is clearly testing or tweaking something... And remember, we are due for a broad core update. Impossible to say if this is related to any testing they are doing for that... but it's possible. Stay tuned.
This week will be a big one in the Search industry with AI taking steps forward in the SERPs. Here's a good post to read before the week begins -> Oh the Things You’ll Do With Bing’s ChatGPT via @owen_yin who actually tested Bing's ChatGPT
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ICYMI: The Google December 2022 link spam and helpful content update completion dates delayed due to the "holidays" and "safety reasons" https://t.co/o0MrM0wt3W
Noticing some huge drops in crawling across large & complex data-driven sites. E.g. 600K crawl requests/day to *2K*, or 500K per day to 15K. For some sites quality could be impacting crawling. For others, maybe just Google getting better at understanding how often pages change...
Today we released the October 2022 spam update. Find out more about spam updates at https://t.co/XthD5GF06M . We'll update our ranking release history page when the rollout is complete: https://t.co/sQ5COfvo3J
Another big heads-up. The September 2022 Product Reviews Update is now complete! Wow, both the broad core update and the PRU completed rolling out today. Now it's time to check your data and see where you stand. I'll continue heavily analyzing both updates. Stay tuned.