July 2021 Google Webmaster Report: Google Algorithm Updates Galore

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The past month in Google SEO and webmaster land was a bit insane; I am not sure if we had so many confirmed updates released in a 30-day period ever before. To catch you up in the last 30-days we had the June core update start on June 2nd and finish on June 12th. We had the Google predator update around June 10th or so, then the Google page experience update start on June 15th. We had spam update #1 on June 23rd and spam update #2 on June 28th. Google MUM went live officially this month and then the July core update hit hard on July 1st. Let’s not forget the few unconfirmed updates we covered (see below). So yea, this was one heck of a month for Google Search algorithm updates.

You’ll find in the Google SEO section below a lot of talk about site quality and how Google looks at it. Google spent a lot of time updating a lot of its documentation around search. Google Search Console news was a bit slow but it did release the official launch of the Google Search Insights reports.

Google now only shows two FAQ rich results per snippet now and is testing a new author article carousel feature. Google actually has been testing a lot, you’ll see some of the highlights on that below. Google My Business was super busy as well as Google Merchant Center.

What an insane month and don’t get me wrong the June Google webmaster report was not slow. But this month blew this all out.

Here are the more important stories you may want to catch up on:

Google Core Search Algorithm Updates:
Google June 2021 Core Update Is Live – So Far, We Are Not Noticing Much
Google June 2021 Core Update Tremors But It’s Still Early
Google June 2021 Core Update Impact Now Being Felt
Google June 2021 Core Update Finished Rolling Out On Saturday, June 12th
Google July 2021 Core Update Is Live – What We Are Seeing

Google Search Spam Updates:
Confirmed Google Search Spam Algorithm Update On June 23rd
Google Search Spam Algorithm Update Part Two On June 28th

Google Page Experience Update:
Google Page Experience Update Rolling Out Between June 15 & End Of August
Google Video: Changes With Top Stories With The Page Experience Update
Google Begins Showing Non AMP Pages In Top Stories Carousel
Google Showing Non-AMP URL In Top Stories Carousel When AMP URL Is Available?
Newzdash: 12% Of Google Top Stories URLs Are Not AMP
Google: Page Experience Update Does Not Have A Whitelist List

Other Google Search Algorithm Updates:
Google Predator Algorithms Target Exploitative & Slanderous Sites
How Google Used MUM In Search For The First Time

Unconfirmed Google Search Updates:
June 30th Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update & Fluctuations
Recent Google Search Ranking Fluctuations
Unconfirmed Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update June 11 & 12

Google SEO:
Google: Ranking Ranking Factors Is A Bad Idea
Crawled – Currently Not Indexed: A Sign Of A Google Quality Issue?
How Do Google Algorithmic Slow Rollout Work?
Google: There Isn’t All That Much Trick In Search
Google Does Not Confirm More Updates To Reduce Fear, Worry & Anxiety?
Google: Quality Is A Site Level Signal
Google: Quality Changes Take Several Months To Be Reprocessed & Reevaluated
Google: Site Command Rankings Can Be Impacted By Core Updates
Can Google Understand & Rank Inclusive Language In Search
Google Documents How HTTP Status Codes, Network & DNS Errors Impact Google Search
Google Redirects Help Page Expanded To Show Impact On Google Search
Google Updates Search Help Docs For Robots.txt & Structured Data
Google Deprecates Critic Review Structured Data Support
Google Dataset Structured Data Adds Funder Property Type
All Of Google Search Content Policies In One Place
Google Suggests Use Both Both Accented & Not Accented Versions In Content
Gary Illyes Talks On Information Retrieval At Google Search
Google: Removing People Also Ask Results Takes Longer Than Removing Normal Search Results
Google PageSpeed Insights Adds Partial Field Data
Google Video Best Practices Adds Details For SafeSearch & Adult Content
Google: We Will Try To Treat Nofollow vs UGC vs Sponsored Link Attributes Differently