Google: Passage Indexing & Page Experience Updates Unrelated

Dec 30, 2020 - 7:11 am 0 by

Google Passages Page Experience Update

Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that passage indexing/rankings and the page experience update are "very different things." This came about when Michel Fortin asked if the two might launch together.

So no, they will not launch together and they are really different.

I do expect the passage indexing ranking feature to go live in early 2021, maybe in January. But the page experience update won't be live until May 2021.

Here are those tweets:

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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