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Was there a Google search update in November?
Hello,
I had around 14,000 monthly visits according to Google Analytics and suddenly it dropped to 3,000 over the last 28 days. What is happening?
I made the mistake of not including internal back links between web pages. So I did it yesterday by including links to 2 other pages on each page as a read more section.
Any thoughts?
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There was like 3-4 algorithm updates on 2 months. I work in PPC, not SEO, just overheard my colleagues talk about it.
SEO is in rough seas ATM. It’s worth keeping up with news if you can spare the time
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Indeed there has, a core algorithm update started early November, finished rolling out Nov 28.
There has also been a reviews update from Google in Nobemeber. Not to mention the slew of other updates from August until now. These are all listed on Google Search Status Dashboard. Just search for ‘Google algorithm update list’ should be the first result.
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in August September October November
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Yes, afaik it was shared on SEO twitter there was a core update around November 6 or 8th then it completed its rollout by November 28.
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It was a slow year for updates, and then has been pouring updates every month since August. December is also notorious for e-comm to get a updates for the holidays.
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This is not really in the scope of internal linking. Internally linking is meant to be helpful. So say you do a post about back pain. You’re going to discuss things like sciatica amongst others as one example.
You’d want another post on your site dedicated to sciatica. The back pain post, somewhere it’s talking about sciatica would link out to the sciatica post. And in some cases you would link from both to the other, but only if it’s absolutely necessary. You don’t want every post you do having reciprocal links just to be linking to stuff.
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Slew of updates. The November one was a game changer as it changed Google search from a search experience to a shopping experience featuring structured data as modifiable in the shopping experience
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