Lets contemplate the impact of the recent major core update changes. This update was a contentious one. It happened just 7 days before Black Friday, leaving a multitude of e-commerce sites spinning in the wind. E-commerce giants were worried that their sales would be affected.
It appears that reference sites seemed to come up trumps. These included encyclopedias, online dictionaries, and other variations of educational-based library-type sites. Many of them gained visibility of more than 200%.
News and publisher sites took the biggest hit. Major news sites like Reuters, APNews, Forbes, are just a handful that witnessed serious drops in statistics. One theory is that Googles’ algorithm is being retooled to prefer newer fresh content feeds.
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