Google Core Update, June 2019. What Happened?
Google has released it's latest update, the Google Broad Core Algorithm update for June 2019. It appears that Google has just rolled this out as of June 3rd (at around 10am) and I have noticed both positive and negative results amongst members.
One thing you don't want to do is panic if you see negative results immediately after these algorithm updates. These typically hit websites at different times, meaning that your website may see an increase or drop before others, thus skewing the results initially. It often times takes weeks before the dust settles from a significant algorithm update.
Based on what I have seen, it appears that Google is continuing to reward "pillar" style content. Content that is thorough is continuing to become the benchmark for SEO success. You don't see much content under 1,000 words ranking on the 1st page any longer, and for more competitive terms 2,000-5,000 words is becoming normal.
That doesn't mean that you need to be verbose with all your content, some of your posts may be 1,000, some may be 1,500 words, some 2,000, some much more. It will depend on the actual article.
So keep doing what you are doing. Keep creating high quality content. Keep working on getting engagement. And continue focusing on low competition keywords, ideally under the 100 QSR threshold. You will continue to see results and continue to climb the ranks with every update.
Have you noticed any changes in the last day or two with your rankings? If so, I would love to hear your feedback as to what you are seeing in terms of your rankings and your overall website traffic. Leave your insights below.
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To be fair, it is nice to see because they don't work their a** hard and they don't even have a single informational post apart from about 50 commercial articles (long articles tho) like best of, and reviews. They have just paid for a lot of high DA backlinks.
I am just hoping that with all the helpful content going on my website I will get those big keywords and hopefully overtake them at some point and rankings and traffic come back in the next few days.
The broad core updates are no different. Google is after the best content...the most engaging content, that is being run by websites where people actually get back to their users. They also like speed, and mobile. If you have all those attributes you are going to have a bright future ahead in the SEO world.
If the core update stays unchanged, I'll have lost about 3 months of growth. It's not the end of the world, but it is disheartening. For now, I plan to ignore my stats until things settle down. Letting the stress affect my work will only hinder things further.
Follow Kyle's advice. Stick to creating great content. This will only be a minor setback in the grand scheme of things.
Just out of curiosity did you notice any trends in which posts lost rankings? Like word count, reviews, or anything like that?
But we're probably going to see this shuffle happen for another week or so. I think as long as everyone has followed what WA teaches and basically mirrors what Google wants, we should all be fine in the long run.
But in the short term folks shouldn't have knee jerk reactions. I may avoid looking at my stats for a week or so just for my nerves. lol
Unrelated: can you collect insurance money on a website that accidentally burnt down?
Wait and see, definitely not a time for panic and it is those that knee jerk react to things like this that typically end up messing up their SEO.
Not much, and not sure if it's due to the core update or just progress but I certainly have not seen a drop.
I normally get a boost from updates, probably as "gamed" sites fall away.
So fingers crossed this is another little boost for me!
I have seen some folks with great content getting beat up a little, whereas others have benefited from this. This update is still being rolled out across Google's Data centres so it is not done yet.
Onwards and upwards.
