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#SEOTip: How to Diagnose Your Site Issues After a Google Core Update.
Google’s Core Update stopped rolling out.
If your site was affected negatively, what do you do next?
What are Core Updates?
The secret is in the name — Core Updates — or in other words, Google is tweaking Core Ranking Factors/Signals.
Core Updates are, in simple terms, changes Google makes to Core Ranking Factors* to surface higher-quality sites. These officially started in early 2018, with the first well-known one appearing on August 1.
Informally, this update was called the ‘Medic Update” because many medical sites were “hit.” This was also a misnomer as it was found later many other types of sites known in Google’s Quality Raters Guide as “YMYL” (Your Money or Your Life) were also affected.
NOTE: There was an update in 2017 that was said to have affected Core Ranking Factors and so it is hard to know when it officially began.
*If you want to learn more about Core Ranking Factors or what Google…
