Helpful Content Update meaning in English

Helpful Content Update

What is the Google Helpful Content Update?

Announced by Google with a blogpost on Google Search Central the 18th of April 2022, the Helpful Content Update is a Google algorithm update designed to improve search results for users.

The Helpful Content Update is designed to reward websites which have content that provides a satisfying user experience.

When does the Helpful Content Update go live?

The update started to roll out to English searches first from Monday 22nd August, and could take up to two weeks to fully roll out.

Our “helpful content update” launching next week will better surface original, helpful content made by people, for people, rather than content made primarily to gain search traffic. It’s part of a broad effort to show more unique, authentic info in results https://t.co/LlCqoP4RPy
— Google SearchLiaison (@searchliaison) August 18, 2022

On December 5th 2022 Google began rolling out the Helpful Content Update classifier to content in all languages and locations worldwide.

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Last modified: 14th Dec, 2022 Created: 20th Aug, 2022 By: Colin McDermott

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