Google has rolled out fewer confirmed search ranking updates in 2025, then it did in all the past years where Google confirmed these updates. Google rolled out only four confirmed updates in 2025, before than seven in 2024, nine in 2023 and ten in 2022 and 2021.
I posted my Google algorithm year in review story at Search Engine Land last week and wanted to share the infographic I made here for that.
2025 Google Core Updates
- December 2025 Core Update: December 11, 2025 through December 29, 2025
- June 2025 Core Update: June 30, 2025 through July 17, 2025
- March 2025 Core Update: March 13, 2025 through March 27, 2025
2025 Google Spam Updates
- August 2025 Spam Update: August 26, 2025 through September 22, 2025
Let's not forget we had countless unconfirmed updates that we covered here and none of those were confirmed by Google.
I love how Gagan Ghotra used Notebook LM to make these infographics based on my coverage of those updates - he posted these on X:
Forum discussion at X.
