{"id":169,"date":"2016-09-20T12:20:40","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T19:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karlstechnology.com\/blog\/?p=169"},"modified":"2019-05-08T08:53:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T15:53:57","slug":"google-algorithm-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karlstechnology.com\/blog\/google-algorithm-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Was there a major Google algorithm change this week?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We started noticing last week that most&nbsp;of&nbsp;the websites we do SEO services for started changing in position in google search. &nbsp;Google has finally made a statement that the massive fluctuations in page values is not a major algorithm change but is part of &#8220;normal fluctuations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/logos\/doodles\/2015\/googles-new-logo-5078286822539264.3-hp2x.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"881\" height=\"400\"><\/p>\n<p>There seems to be a consensus forming in the <a href=\"http:\/\/searchengineland.com\/google-downplays-google-algorithm-ranking-update-week-normal-fluctuations-258923?utm_source=moztop10&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=moztop10&amp;mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWkRReE1UbGpObVl6T0RKbSIsInQiOiJsSmNETG9ocGVuVStqV0Jva1JpRlM4OGU5UHV0UEN1VFY4STQwUmxYMkVjMFBMZnkrS2REMVNcL3ZDaWNZSGtPWEJnM3A5MTZveDFRQ1ZidWozOXpRbFNHV3ozZE9RbkRtRWJcL0JwdXh2bVU0PSJ9\">SEO community<\/a>&nbsp;that despite what Google is saying they made a major algorithm update this last week. &nbsp;We are seeing a lot of movement in positions especially for our clients that were effected by the last Google Penguin update. &nbsp;I think this shows that content is king as our higher quality content sites see to be less impacted and possibly even boosted. &nbsp;Time will tell if this event is considered Penguin update 5.0 (or maybe what Google is saying is this isn&#8217;t a major algorithm change but it is Penguin update 4.5) or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We started noticing last week that most&nbsp;of&nbsp;the websites we do SEO services for started changing in position in google search. &nbsp;Google has finally made a statement that the massive fluctuations in page values is not a major algorithm change but is part of &#8220;normal fluctuations.&#8221; There seems to be a consensus forming in the SEO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31,32],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computerrepair","tag-google","tag-seo"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Was there a major Google algorithm change this week? 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