Signs of update as early as Nov 1st - Details of targeted content
Day 63 year 4 of indexation research
Welcome to Crawl or No Crawl report on this 2nd day of the November Core update.
Now that its been announced, I did 2 things that ate my day yesterday.
I went back through all the server logs from Oct 20th to date.
I compared index page reports three groups back.
If you don’t know what those are - in GSC you can get a list of the URLs that Google systems confirm ARE indexed. Doesn’t mean they are being served but it does confirm that the pages are involved in the scoring of your site.
One of my active testing sites yielded evidence of some of the specifics in content that this update considers a “loser”.
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