Google's John Mueller answers if a technical site problem immediately preceding a core algorithm update could cause a loss of rankings
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Google’s John Mueller affirmed that technical issues don’t generally cause a ranking loss after a core update. Mueller said that core update ranking problems are more associated with quality issues and offered examples of the kinds of perceived quality issues that a core update isn’t sensitive too.
Overhauled Website Just Prior to Core Update
The person asking the question wrote that they had performed a major update to a site just prior to a Google core algorithm update. After the update the website rankings crashed and stayed crashed for up to six months and still not recovered.
John Mueller Discussing Core Algorithm Updates
This is the question that was asked:
“Our website was ranking well before we performed a design overhaul. Our timing was terrible, as a core update was released just after the launch, which had some issues with internal links.
We suspect Google reassessed the site quality at this time, but we could resolve the issues.
Our ranking and traffic dropped a lot and lost all rich snippets in the process and is in limbo for the last five, six months.
Do we wait for another core update for Google to assess our site quality again or does this happen...
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