Post by account_disabled on Feb 20, 2024 5:08:36 GMT
If there has been a decrease or increase in your site's organic traffic and/or positions as of the beginning of December, the culprit is most likely Google's 4th core algorithm update of 2020, which we have been saying has been imminent for a while. I've always said this. The thing is, Google usually makes at least 4 such large-scale algorithm updates a year, and unless any update directly affects websites belonging to a certain category (e.g. health sites), sometimes it doesn't even have much news value in the SEO community.
However, this update was awaited with some curiosity and some Greece Phone Number fear, as Google had not released any algorithm updates since May 2020, for a period of almost 7 months. We can even say that it was unexpected, almost everyone in the SEO community seemed confident that this time Google would leave the update work to 2021. This year was already a year when Google experienced serious indexing problems (indexing glitch), especially on the mobile side, and that was partly why it was thought that it had suspended the 4th core algorithm update of 2020. The update was actually revealed with the announcement made by Google's search unit on Twitter on December 3, 2020. Position fluctuations began to be seen on Google search results pages (SERP) starting from the first day of December, but they were not serious enough to warrant updating.
Google also stated that, as with every core algorithm update, it may take a week or two for the results of the update to become permanent. We generally call this the time until the update takes effect. During this period, you may see sudden position increases or decreases on your site, or you may even see certain pages completely drop from the index for a very short time. This is the reason why pages that have experienced a decline during this period are generally not intervened before 2 weeks have passed since the update. For example, in the May 2020 update, various SEO tools reported that the activity in the SERP continued between May 4 and May 18. This time, the situation is a little different.
However, this update was awaited with some curiosity and some Greece Phone Number fear, as Google had not released any algorithm updates since May 2020, for a period of almost 7 months. We can even say that it was unexpected, almost everyone in the SEO community seemed confident that this time Google would leave the update work to 2021. This year was already a year when Google experienced serious indexing problems (indexing glitch), especially on the mobile side, and that was partly why it was thought that it had suspended the 4th core algorithm update of 2020. The update was actually revealed with the announcement made by Google's search unit on Twitter on December 3, 2020. Position fluctuations began to be seen on Google search results pages (SERP) starting from the first day of December, but they were not serious enough to warrant updating.
Google also stated that, as with every core algorithm update, it may take a week or two for the results of the update to become permanent. We generally call this the time until the update takes effect. During this period, you may see sudden position increases or decreases on your site, or you may even see certain pages completely drop from the index for a very short time. This is the reason why pages that have experienced a decline during this period are generally not intervened before 2 weeks have passed since the update. For example, in the May 2020 update, various SEO tools reported that the activity in the SERP continued between May 4 and May 18. This time, the situation is a little different.