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Google’s Danny Sullivan answered a tweet that questioned the timing of the September Core Algorithm Update soon after the Helpful Content Update.
Dr.Pete Meyers tweeted that he had a hard time imagining that the two updates coming one after the other was a coincidence.
“Hard to imagine that a September Core Update right on the heels (literally zero business days later) of the Helpful Content Update is a coincidence.
These aren’t spontaneous events Google just wakes up Monday morning and decides to kick off.”
Pete followed up later on with another tweet to clarify his meaning:
“My tweet may have come across more conspiratorial than intended — I wasn’t suggesting that one was meant to obfuscate the other so much as speculating that a Core Update might be a natural, planned follow-up to the new signals introduced in the HCU.”
A core algorithm update following by days the end of a targeted update like the Helpful Content Update (HCU) feels unusual.
So Pete had good reason to speculate that the timing was not coincidental.
And though it felt unusual that one update followed another so closely, it wasn’t unprecedented.
For example, Google rolled out a total of six updates from June to July 2021.
Why Core Update Followed Helpful Content Update
Danny Sullivan, who is Google...
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