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 ...

This is the second Google core update of 2026 and follows the March 2026 core update.

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 ...

An in-depth analysis of how Google's complex ranking system works and components like Twiddlers and NavBoost that influence search results. It should be clear to everyone that the Google documentation ...

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 ...