Google's John Mueller was asked when can a site expect to recover from the September 2023 helpful content update, assuming the site took all measures to "fix" their site. John Mueller said you can assume "bigger changes would be visible when the next core updates happen."This came up on X:Question: Assuming a site hit by HCU in 2023 has fixed everything that caused the sitewide classifier to be applied, what is the timeframe for the site to start climbing again? Answer: "Fix" is hard to say...
On April 29, 2024, a conversation on Twitter between SEO professional Thomas Jepsen and Google's John Mueller, a Search Relations team lead, shed light on website recovery following Google's recent Helpful Content Update (HCU).
Google's John Mueller said again this morning that sites hit by the old September helpful content update or even new core updates can recovery. He said on X and on LinkedIn that it is possible to recover but it is not a simple change you can tweak on your website, but rather it takes a lot of effort, over time, to recover.John said that not only can you recover but you can grow. He said this morning, "Yes, sites can grow again after being affected by the "HCU" (well, core update now)."Last week...
Google Maps is changing up the way you find EV charging points and giving more context to searches for roads.
When Google announced it is rolling out AI Overviews in the US search results and last year when Google launched SGE in labs, SEOs and content creators wanted to know how to prevent their content from showing up in these responses. Well, you can, but only through Google Search controls as I covered in my larger story.Glenn Gabe tested the nosnippet control out and it worked - he wrote up a detailed case study here. He was able to remove his content and link card from the AI Overview by adding a...
The Google Play Store is where you get your apps, but at I/O 2024, Google has announced some updates they’ll be making.
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Danny Sullivan, Google's Search Liaison, posted on X explaining the differences between algorithm updates, like core updates, and then data refreshes, the data that goes into those ranking systems. This is actually something Matt Cutts, former Googler, did back in 2006, on his blog and now Danny Sullivan did a short version of it on X.In short, Google has coding updates to how algorithms work and then Google is constantly doing data refreshes to the signals that the algorithms use for ranking....
Google has today announced a wealth of new updates to its AI models including new features and availability of its Gemini 1.5 Pro together with two new Gemma AI models and 1.5 Flash. Google has also introduced new ways that you can improve your productivity using its Gemini AI in Google Workspaces. Google Gemini AI […]
Google has released the first Android 15 beta ahead of a wider rollout later this year – but when exactly will the final version of Android 15 be released? And more specifically, when will eligible Google Pixel devices get the update? While we’re still some time away from Android 15 landing on your Pixel smartphone, here, we cover everything there is to know about the upgrade right now, from Pixel rollout date speculation to supported devices and how to get in on the action early with the...
The tech giant has confirmed a range of new tools and services are on the way.
Google is inserting more of its Gemini AI into many of its product and the next target in its sights is Photos. At its I/O developer conference today, the company's CEO Sundar Pichai announced a feature called Ask Photos, which is designed to help you find specific images in your gallery by talking to Gemini. Ask Photos will show up as a new tab at the bottom of your Google Photos app. It'll start rolling out to One subscribers first, starting in US English over the upcoming months. When you...