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March 7th Algorithm Update Was About Relevance, Not Quality Google Said

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Google’s John Mueller has confirmed the  March 7th algorithm update  did not necessarily target low quality sites. Rather, it had more to do with content relevance. Mueller revealed this information during a Google Webmaster Hangout held on April 6th. He was asked: ”If we have a site that was hit by the March 7th and 9th quality update that’s a legitimate site, it’s generating world-class quality content, getting lots of links — and it gets scraped. Now, after the update, the other scraper sites are ranking before us … what could we do to fix that?” First, Mueller clears up some confusion by explaining that most of Google’s algorithm updates are focused on relevance. If rankings were affected by last month’s update, it’s not an indication that a site’s content is of low quality. A lot of sites lose relevance over time, Mueller says, regardless of how high quality the content is. When it comes to figuring out how to make a site more relevant, Mueller suggests getting fee

Google algorithm update may be rolling out since June 25

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Did you notice changes in your Google organic search traffic or rankings? There may have been a serious Google algorithm update. Google seems to have been rolling out a large search algorithm update starting sometime around Sunday, June 25. Google’s John Mueller said, “We make updates all the time,” when asked specifically about the speculation around a Google update. In my opinion, there was an algorithm update to the Google search rankings over the past few days that is still rolling out. Google technically did not confirm it, outside of John Mueller’s typical reply to any questions around an algorithm update. But based on the industry chatter that I track closely and the automated tracking tools from Mozcast, SERPMetrics, Algoroo, Advanced Web Rankings, Accuranker, RankRanger and SEMRush, among other tools, it seems there was a real Google algorithm update. Again, Google’s PR team did not officially confirm it outside of John Mueller’s tweet. Here are some scr

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