Google Search has started to roll out the second broad core update of the year, the September 2022 broad core update. It started on September 12, 2022 at about 11:25 am ET and can take about two weeks to roll out. This update followed the completion of the Google helpful content update that …
Today marks the two-week and one-day mark since the Google helpful content update started to roll out and by the time I am writing this and when it was published Google has still not noted that the helpful content update is done rolling out. Plus, as I noted yesterday , we are now seeing mo…
There seems to be a lot of confusion around the Google helpful content update and if it is “big” or not big. That all depends on if you were hit by it, if you were, oh boy is it really big for you. But in terms of how widespread it is, so far, it is not affecting many many sites. Yes, I am s…
Bill Slawski recently passed away but his hosting company will continue to ensure his website lives on after the site went offline when the hosting payments were not being processed anymore. SEO by the Sea. Bill Slawski has published thousands of articles on his SEO by the Sea website, s…
As many of you know Bill Slawski passed away in May. But earlier this week, Bill’s treasure trove of content covering search patents and more at SEOByTheSea.com went offline. The issue appeared to be that the billing was not paid, but when it was brought to the attention of the hosting comp…
The new helpful content update sounds like a big deal. Google has given us a list of questions to consider to determine whether our sites are designed to help people, or rather, created to do well on search engines. If the latter is the case, you may find yourself hit with a sitewide …
Google has announced a new big search ranking algorithm update named the helpful content update – yes, Google named it that. This update will start to roll out next week and will target content that is, um, not helpful to humans and people. The helpful content update looks to weed out conte…
At the start of my SEO career, I wanted to do many things perfectly. I wanted to be that person who: Was in the office from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Went through the day super energized, motivated, tenacious and with a huge drive from their daily successes. Highly impressed her bosses and teammat…
On July 27th, Google released its fourth product reviews update named the July 2022 product reviews update . That update took a short and sweet six days to roll out and was completed on August 2nd . In short, this July update was almost none existent to most of the data providers we asked, where …
So Google has finished the rollout of the July 2022 Google Product Reviews Update in a record-breaking fashion, in a six-day period. It even shocked Google because Google originally estimated 14-21 days for the rollout and Google didn’t even mention anything on its social channels about the upda…
