Every ranking update Google confirmed during the year, the stories the most outlets ran, and the news most likely to have mattered to a working site — built from our own archive of 551 stories.
8 named updates.
| Update | Type | Started | Rollout |
|---|---|---|---|
| March 2023 core update | Core update | 15 Mar 2023 | not recorded |
| April 2023 reviews update | Reviews update | 12 Apr 2023 | not recorded |
| August 2023 core update | Core update | 22 Aug 2023 | not recorded |
| September 2023 helpful content update | Helpful content | 14 Sep 2023 | not recorded |
| October 2023 spam update | Spam update | 4 Oct 2023 | not recorded |
| October 2023 core update | Core update | 5 Oct 2023 | not recorded |
| November 2023 core update | Core update | 2 Nov 2023 | not recorded |
| November 2023 reviews update | Reviews update | 8 Nov 2023 | not recorded |
Ranked by estimated impact on a single site, not by publication time.
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Assembled from our own archive of 551 stories, which currently runs from 4 October 2023. Ranking is by the impact score described on the front page — an estimate of how much a story is likely to affect one website, not a measure of how much attention it got.
The archive only holds what it has seen. Periods before it started are empty rather than quiet, and it gets more complete every week it runs.
