December 2021 Google Webmaster Report

What an insanely busy month we had with Google in November 2021! We had a big core update named the November 2021 core update, we had a spam update named the November 2021 spam update and Google said the page experience update is coming to desktop in February 2022.

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60% Of SEOs Saw No Changes With The Google November Core Update

Marie Haynes posted another poll asking SEOs what they saw from the Google November 2021 Core Update now that the update is finished rolling out. Most, like 60% of the SEOs that responded said they saw "no obvious change."

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Google: Human-Readable List Of Links Like Sitemaps Not Always Necessary

Google's John Mueller said for some sites, you can ignore the Google Webmaster Guidelines that says you should have "a page with a human-readable list of links to these pages (sometimes called a site index or site map page)." John said in some or probably many cases, you don't need to do that.

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December 2021 Google Product Reviews Update Rolling Out - What We See So Far

Google is rolling out yet another confirmed Google search ranking algorithm update - the second Google Product Reviews Update of the year. So if you were hit by the April 2021 Google Product Reviews Update, you may see improvements if you made the necessary changes.

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Google Boulder Office Conference Room Views Are Insane

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