Top Google Updates of 2019 [Infographic]

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Webpages get ranked on search engines by using a combination of several algorithms and ranking signals. Every year thousands of updates are made by Google. The infographic here shows top 5 Google Updates of 2019 that you must know:

BERT Update – 25th October 2019

BERT stands for Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers. This update is said to be the biggest change made in Google search in the last 5 years. It is used by Google to understand the search queries in a better way. Search engines along with featured snippets will get impacted with BERT.

Broad Core Algorithm Update – 24th September 2019

According to Google, any particular web page or website is not targeted by this update. Instead, it focuses to evaluate the complete content quality to provide better results to users.

 Also Read – Latest September 2019 Google Updates And Its Impact On Your Website

June 2019 Core Update – 2nd June 2019

On 2nd June, Danny Sullivan, Google Search Liaison wrote a tweet about the release of broad core algorithm update. Google took around 5 days to roll out this core update, it was started on 3rd June and finished on 8th June. The Core Updates of Google does not focus on specific search query or particular characteristics of a website.

March 2019 Core Update – 12th March 2019

The release of this Core Update algorithm was confirmed by Danny Sullivan via Twitter. This update is said to be one of the biggest updates of Google in years. The impact of this algorithm was significant on some of the sites. As per analysis, the search results for sensitive topics are fine-tuned by Google.

Valentine’s Day Update – 13th February 2019

It was indicated by some algorithm trackers that an unconfirmed update has taken place. However, it was reported to have positive changes on rankings. Throughout 2018, changes were being rolled out by Google to improve the ability of Google to understand search queries. Such algorithms mostly focus on identifying pages that would be best for solving user’s problem.

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