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Last Friday, John Mueller made an announcement in a webmaster hangout video. He said that if your site was negatively affected by a Google core algorithm update, then you don’t necessarily wait till the time Google launches out a core update to improve. Barry Schwartz asked John Muller him various issues around that statement, and it seems that data and signals in the core updates are refreshed periodically between Google core updates.
Google had published a year ago about broad core updates that happen every few months. Google stated that
“content that was impacted by one might not recover, assuming the improvements made until the next broad core update is released.”
SEO experts usually accept that it is unusual to see a full recovery from a Google core update without Google announcing another Google core update. But some may see incremental improvements. However, Google is constantly giving updates to search algorithms and small core updates. Google wrote. These improvements may be due to a smaller, unpublished core update or different algorithm updates that might improve the site’s overall ranking.
You don’t have to pause for the next Google core update to see a full restoration, Mueller said on Friday’s video. Mueller said,
“it’s not something that requires a site to kind of wait for the next update to have a chance to be seen differently. They can continue working on things and things can improve over time.” Mueller said that it is “possible that our next core update will make a bigger change in the same direction that you’ve been working, and you’ll see a bigger change in your site’s performance as well.”
“But in general, sites don’t have to wait for the next bigger update to start seeing changes. So from that point of view, I wouldn’t just, like, stop working on things once you think you’ve done the right thing, but I’d continue working in that direction. You should see at least some incremental improvements over time there,” he said.
Recently, Mueller confirmed with Barry Schwartz that ”you can observe a ”full recovery” for a Google core update before Google running that core update again. You don’t have to wait for a Google core update to notice a full recovery.”
Here is the first video from Friday where Mueller said
”that the signs and data that these core updates are regularly updated quarterly. Like Penguin or Panda updates, where you had to expect from Google to launch a fresh update, core updates do not work like this. The numbers in the core updates are frequently updated. They might not be real-time, hourly, or even daily but they are periodically updated.”
This is excellent news for websites hit by these Google core updates. Google usually pushes out a broad core update every three months. If your site misses 50% of organic traffic, you need not wait for an entire business quarter to improve. You can examine and understand Google’s guidance on core updates, and you will notice changes before the succeeding core update is published.
The last core update took place on 4th May 2020. SEO experts and webmasters are actively waiting for the subsequent core updates and supporting themselves for that impact.
