Google September 2023 Helpful Content Completed Rolling Out - Targeting SEO-First Content

Google September 2023 Helpful Content Completed Rolling Out - Targeting SEO-First Content
Sep 28, 2023 • 8:01 am | Comments (119) by Barry Schwartz twitter mastodon

Google, at around 3 am ET this morning, announced that the September 2023 Google helpful content update has finished rolling out. It took about 14 days, starting on September 14, 2023, and completing today on September 28, 2023. This update really went after SEO-first content, which is why the SEO community is so heated about this specific update.

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