Google launched four official and confirmed algorithmic updates in 2025, three core updates and one spam update. This is in comparison to last year, in 2024, where we had seven confirmed updates, then ...

Google has updated its search ranking algorithm to "more strongly affect the sites that host explicit videos but don't allow Googlebot to fetch those video files" which may lead to a "significant drop ...

Google launched seven official and confirmed algorithmic updates in 2024, four core updates and three spam updates. The March 2024 core update was massive, updating several systems within the core ...

The November 2024 core update took three weeks to complete. With the update complete, now is the time to analyze traffic changes. Recovery from ranking drops can take several months with no guaranteed ...

Google has released new best practices, video bytes and what to do if your site was flagged incorrectly, as well. Google has revamped its search help documentation with revised guidelines for sites ...

Google's Search Liaison discusses the impact of Google updates, noting that publishers may not get back to previous traffic levels. Publishers impacted by recent Google algorithm updates might never ...

A glitch in Google’s AI Overviews may inadvertently expose how Google’s algorithm understands search queries and chooses answers. Bugs in Google Search are useful to examine because they may expose ...