Moz: Google Diversity Update Was A Tiny Improvement & Maybe A PR Maneuver

Jun 20, 2019 - 8:25 am 6 by
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Moz published data showing how based on their 10,000 keyword data set that the Google diversity update where Google would infrequently show more than two results from the same domain was a tiny change and possibly done as a PR maneuver to appease the regulators.

Dr. Pete Meyers wrote "while Google technically improved site diversity, the update was narrowly targeted and we had to dig to find evidence of improvement." He said that the "average diversity did improve marginally, from 90.23 percent to 90.72 percent (a 0.49 percent improvement)." He then showed this graph that basically didn't show the change:

Site Diversity 2 7451

So he zoomed in to show more and then decided to isolate situations with more than two listings from the same site by looking specifically at SERPs with a site diversity score of 80 percent or better (eight out of ten sub-domains are unique). There he saw a a 2.1 percent improvement in diversity:

Site Diversity 5 7945

What Dr Pete said on Twitter was a bit more interesting because it showed what he really felt, at least personally:

Do you feel an impact from the diversity update? I mean, for navigational and branded queries, Google is still going to show more than two results from the same domain - they basically said that. But for generic queries, Google is trying to not show more than two results and when someone points out they are, Google has taken that feedback back to the engineers.

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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