Day 4 of August Core Update - Indexation Report

Day 1073 of research - 22 more days to reach beginning of year 3

Welcome to Crawl or No Crawl - the reports from the indexation project bringing you the current state of the indexation system as revealed in SERPs and Search Console data.

Day 4 of the Core update in process come with reports of spontaneous recovery from sites hit hard from last year’s Sept HCU. What changed? Will these improvements hold?

Started a new phase of testing the day before the update was announced that might lead us to at least a part definition of what Google means by spam. Not what we think spam is but what an algorithm might be programmed to identify as “spam”.

Let’s get into the summary and then the details to provide context.