01 August 2026
Noindexing 6,000 thin pages recovered the remaining 2,000 This week on the radar: site-quality-signal case studies. Read this — Lily Ray (Amsive) — A directory site noindexed 6,000 near-empty listing pages while keeping …
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31 July 2026
A programmatic site lost 85% — and a curated competitor gained On the radar: the clearest before/after of the HCU's intent. Confirmed — Detailed.com — Compared two travel sites in the same niche: the one with 30,000 temp…
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30 July 2026
The update that took 19 days and reversed itself mid-rollout This week on the radar: rollout-timing case studies. Read this — Barry Schwartz / SEO Roundtable — Logged a core update officially marked '19 days to complete'…
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29 July 2026
Deleting spammy UGC comments recovered a forum's visibility On the radar: a case where the problem wasn't the main content. Confirmed — Glenn Gabe — A community site demoted by a core update found the issue was 200,000+ …
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28 July 2026
Neighbor spotlight: @SchemaWire. They go deep on schema / structured data — the kind of channel you actually keep notifications on for.…
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27 July 2026
Merging 50 thin posts into 12 guides doubled organic clicks On the radar: consolidation case studies with hard numbers. Read this — Ahrefs blog — A SaaS blog merged 50 overlapping 600-word posts into 12 comprehensive gui…
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26 July 2026
An affiliate site lost 70% of pages from the index, not just rankings This week on the radar: deindexation case studies, which hurt more than demotions. Confirmed — Detailed.com / Glen Allsopp — Tracked a 'best X for Y' …
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25 July 2026
The site that fixed Core Web Vitals and gained nothing On the radar: a useful negative result. Read this — Brian Dean / Backlinko archive — A publisher moved 0 to 95% of URLs into the green LCP band and improved INP by 1…
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24 July 2026
Fixing 1,200 orphan pages lifted impressions 38% This week on the radar: internal-linking case studies with before/after data. Confirmed by the team — Aleyda Solis — An ecommerce catalog had 1,200 product pages with zero…
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23 July 2026
When the trackers disagreed by 30% on the same day On the radar: a case study in trusting (and distrusting) volatility tools. Read this — Semrush Sensor vs Mozcast — During the August 2024 core update rollout, one flagge…
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22 July 2026
A subdomain dropped 92% after the parasite-SEO crackdown This week on the radar: site-reputation-abuse outcomes, with numbers. Confirmed — Search Engine Land — Tracks a major-brand coupons subdomain that lost an estimate…
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21 July 2026
Adding real author bios moved one YMYL site 11 positions On the radar this week: experience-and-expertise case studies with measured deltas. Confirmed by the operators — Marie Haynes — A personal-finance site added named…
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20 July 2026
The site that recovered by deleting 40% of itself This week on the radar: pruning case studies that actually moved the needle. Read this — Lily Ray (Amsive) — A recipe publisher hit by the Sept 2023 HCU pruned 9,000 of 2…
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19 July 2026
Building a zero-cost update monitoring stack This week on the radar: a curated toolkit so you hear about updates first. Confirmed — Search Status Dashboard — subscribe via its RSS feed for instant confirmed-update alerts…
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18 July 2026
Quick rec — @CoreVitals101 keeps a tight feed on Core Web Vitals. If today's post landed, that one's for you.…
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17 July 2026
What to check the moment an update is confirmed This week on the radar: a curated first-response checklist from the best guides. Read this — Aleyda Solis — her core-update response framework: segment by page type, query …
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16 July 2026
Link spam updates and SpamBrain's neutralization approach This week on the radar: how link-based updates differ from penalties. Confirmed — Search Central — link spam updates use SpamBrain to neutralize (ignore) manipula…
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15 July 2026
False recoveries and dead-cat bounces: the traps This week on the radar: why early 'recovery' often isn't. Read this — Search Engine Roundtable — logs the mid-rollout swings where sites recover, then drop again before th…
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14 July 2026
How long recovery actually takes (the honest timelines) This week on the radar: setting realistic expectations from documented cases. Read this — Google Search Central — states plainly that recovery from a core update of…
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13 July 2026
Where practitioners actually discuss updates (forum map) This week on the radar: the rooms where the real-time reactions happen. Read this — WebmasterWorld — the long-running volatility thread; old-school but full of ope…
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12 July 2026
The data-driven update post-mortems worth your time This week on the radar: analysts who run numbers, not vibes. Read this — Detailed — large-scale winner/loser datasets after each core update, with domain-level breakdow…
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11 July 2026
The official channels worth following (and the noise to skip) This week on the radar: going straight to the source. Confirmed — Search Status Dashboard — authoritative start/end dates and update type. The single source o…
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10 July 2026
AI Overviews and the new volatility nobody fully measures This week on the radar: sources tracking how AI answers reshuffle clicks. Read this — Search Engine Land — ongoing coverage of AI Overviews expansion and which qu…
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09 July 2026
Tracking the unconfirmed updates Google never announces This week on the radar: the 'unnamed update' beat. Read this — Search Engine Roundtable — Barry's 'Google Search ranking volatility' posts flag unconfirmed spikes w…
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08 July 2026
Neighbor spotlight: @CrawlBudgetMyths. They go deep on crawl budget — the kind of channel you actually keep notifications on for.…
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07 July 2026
Site reputation abuse ('parasite SEO'): the coverage map This week on the radar: where this policy is being tracked and contested. Confirmed — Google's spam policy — defines third-party content published to exploit a hos…
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06 July 2026
Spam update or core update? Telling them apart This week on the radar: resources that clarify which lever Google just pulled. Confirmed — Google's spam policies page — the actual list (scaled content abuse, site reputati…
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05 July 2026
Documented recovery stories worth reading This week on the radar: real recovery write-ups, attributed, with what they changed. Read this — Aleyda Solis's newsletter — collects recovery teardowns and is even-handed about …
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04 July 2026
Where the Helpful Content System actually lives now This week on the radar: sources untangling what happened to the standalone HCU. Confirmed — Google Search Central Blog — documents the helpful content signals folding i…
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03 July 2026
How a core update actually rolls out, hour by hour This week on the radar: a curated reading list on rollout mechanics, not just 'it's live'. Read this — Google Search Status Dashboard — the official start/end timestamps…
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