Google\u2019s September 2022 product reviews update is now fully rolled out. Google said this update only applied to English-language product reviews.<\/p>\n
It took six days to complete, beginning Sept. 20 and concluding Sept. 26.<\/p>\n
This marks the end of a flurry of Google algorithm updates that started with the helpful content update (Aug. 25 to Sept. 9<\/a>), continued with the September 2022 core update (and Sept. 12 to 26<\/a>) and concluded with the fifth version of the product reviews update<\/a>.<\/p>\n Rollout complete.<\/strong>\u00a0According to\u00a0Google\u2019s search ranking update page<\/a>, \u201cThe rollout was complete as of September 26, 2022.\u201d <\/p>\n Google\u2019s July 2022 product reviews update also took six days to fully roll out<\/a>.<\/p>\n There has been some discussion within the SEO community about the September product review update. Barry Schwartz covered that in What We\u2019re Seeing From The Google Product Reviews Update #5<\/a> over Search Engine Roundtable.<\/p>\n About Google\u2019s product review updates.<\/strong> These algorithm updates are meant to reward high-quality product reviews (in the form of insightful analysis and original research). Google said it will promote these types of product reviews in its search results rankings.<\/p>\n In short, if you were impacted, that means you probably need to put more effort into improving your product review content. Figure out how to make it unique so it stands out from the competition.<\/p>\n Why we care.\u00a0<\/strong>Staying on top of Google\u2019s multiple algorithm updates<\/a> is important. This is a bit unique because Google rolled out overlapping updates this month \u2013 product reviews and a core update. Google says the product review update should only impact product review content. But having overlapping algorithm updates could complicate things \u2013 especially if you\u2019re trying to diagnose ranking or visibility changes (positive or negative).<\/p>\n The post Google September 2022 product reviews update rollout complete<\/a> appeared first on Search Engine Land<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Google\u2019s September 2022 product reviews update is now fully rolled out. Google said this update only applied to English-language product reviews. It took six days to complete, beginning Sept. 20 and concluding Sept. 26. This marks the end of a flurry of Google algorithm updates that started with the helpful content update (Aug. 25 to Sept. 9), continued with the September 2022 core update (and Sept. 12 to 26) and concluded with the fifth version of the product reviews update. Rollout complete.\u00a0According to\u00a0Google\u2019s search ranking update […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-seo-blogs"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":false,"author_link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/author\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}