Last August, I came up with this wild theory that the August 1, 2018 core update was more focused in on medical and health/wellness types of web sites. Google said no, it was across all categories but a lot of the data showed that while it did hit all categories of sites, there seemed to be more focus by a lot on the medical/health space.

Well, listen to John Mueller of Google talk this morning on a hangout at the 4:05 mark about how maybe its algorithms a year ago got smarter at figuring out if Google can trust certain medical and health related sites. Listen how he talks about other people’s theories and how those theories make sense.

He said “maybe our algorithms in the last year or so have been focusing more on and where they’re a bit more critical.” “For example one one area that I’ve seen mentioned a lot is the whole medical space,” he added.

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