Updates

Google has released a broad core algorithm update on Monday June 3rd, 2019. It was announced a day before, through the official Google SearchLiaison Twitter account:

As usual after such updates, Google recommends not to take any sudden actions and just keep being focused on "building great content", sending their followers to their posts from October 2018 for more information on writing good quality content.

A high search volatility on November 16th is seen by experts as a sign of a regular Google Algorithm update. The sectors most impacted by the updates seem to be: Finance and Healthcare.

Many webmasters were able to notice some unexpected shifts in Google Search results on November 1st. A high activity for the mobile sector was detected in many countries (US, UK, IT, FR, DE, JP, ES), which would also suggest some Google Algorithm Updates on their way.

I has been confirmed by Google that there has been a major quality update performed. The update took place throughout a period of one week, but the peak was detected around August 1st and 2nd. A lot of websites were strongly affected. As for now, Google recommends not to take any sudden moves and just keep being focused on "building great content".

 

You can learn more about the update and its consequences here.

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The regular, monthly Google Update was spotted by webmasters around the world taking place around July 22. A spike in volatility was spotted and the webmasters reported changes when it comes to their traffic and Google rank positions.

From today Google will take loading speed into consideration while displaying mobile search results. As of now, the update will only affect the slowest websites - to make the mobile search a smoother experience for the users.

Webmasters around the world could spot a change in traffic and positions, which seems to be an effect of a Google algorithm update.

With visible spikes around the 24th of May, and webmasters around the world reporting strong changes in rankings, it seems like a new update from Google took place. Such updates are recently appearing as often as once a month.

Google released a core algorithm change which resulted in visible peaks on the 18th and 20th of April. Such updates may cause position drops, with no clear fixes.

Google announced that the long-awaited Mobile-First Index has been launched. The process of migrating sites that follow the best practices for mobile has started, but it's not said how long the process will take. 

Google sends out notifications to the site owners via Google Search Console.

 

Lear more here.