2019 was another big year for Google search algorithm updates. Year after year, we see the search engine giant refine itself to become more “user-centric”. Google search ranking algorithms are a complex, versatile, and famously mysterious system that is constantly evolving to match the best results to search queries. Over the past year, we’ve seen… Continue reading

We’ve brought you a snapshot of the best and the biggest Google Search Algorithm Updates from 2018 in the below infographic. 2017 witnessed several noteworthy algorithm updates and changes and 2018 seems to be no different. Danny Sullivan of Google did declare that “We do some type of focused update nearly daily. A broad core… Continue reading

We recently discussed Google’s August 1st broad core algorithm update, and how to recover from it or take advantage of the changes. We pointed out that Google updated their publicly available search quality evaluator guidelines on July 20th, and that the changes to the guidelines were likely put to use in the core update. A major change to… Continue reading

On August 1st, 2018, Google officially confirmed that there was a broad core algorithm update during the previous week via the @searchliaison twitter account: Judging by the ranking fluctuations as measured by Mozcast, the algorithm roll out likely began on July 31st: According to Danny Sullivan, we can estimate that the algorithm completed rolling out… Continue reading

Professional SEOs have been in the industry long enough to recognize that Google’s algorithm is huge, complicated, and impossible to reverse engineer. If you’ve been trying to game the search engines, it’s harder now than ever, and it definitely is not the path to sustained search engine rankings. That said, understanding some things about how… Continue reading