Google Core & Product Review Updates Finish The Rollout

Google confirms that the September 2022 core update and product review update have been completed.

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Google confirms that its recent core algorithm update and product review update are complete as of September 26, 2022.

Google quietly announced the completion of the rollout via its search ranking updates page.

The Timing Of The September Core Update Following The HCU Is Not Coincidental

On September 12, the September 2022 core update began to be distributed. On September 20, the product review update was released a week later.

Both updates will be available on the same day, September 26, which is ideal if you want to evaluate their impact right away.

What Should You Do Next?

It’s now time to evaluate the impact of the changes by examining your website’s rankings and traffic patterns.

If you notice any significant and long-lasting changes, it’s most likely due to one or both updates.

How To Determine If You Are Affected By The Core Update

Google makes core updates to all search results, which have the potential to affect entire websites.

John Mueller, a Google Search Advocate, explains how core updates affect the entire site rather than specific elements:

“With the core updates we don’t focus so much on just individual issues, but rather the relevance of the website overall.

And that can include things like the usability, and the ads on a page, but it’s essentially the website overall.”

Keeping this in mind, changes in search rankings across the majority of your website’s pages indicate that the core update had an effect on you.

How To Tell If the Product Review Update Affected You

This one is simpler, as product review updates are only applied to product review search results.

Do you make product reviews available? If not, the update did not affect you.

If you do publish product reviews, keep rankings in mind. If you notice changes that are only visible on product review pages, it is most likely due to the product review update.

Ranking changes across your entire site, on the other hand, are more likely the result of the core update.

Stay tuned for more EverRanks articles analyzing the impact of these updates.

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