February 2025 Google Webmaster Report: Volatility Tracking, Local Bug, Quality Raters, AI & UI – Search Engine Roundtable
While this month was not as busy as last month, it was still a pretty stressful month for a lot of site owners and SEOs. I was expecting more core updates this past month, but we had none, whereas the previous report, we covered three confirmed Google updates.
So what did we have with Google Search in the past month? Well, we had a bunch of ranking volatility hit, starting with a weird Google local ranking bug, then we had some core ranking volatility in mid-January, then Google deployed something that caused some tracking tools some issues – it was a big deal for some. We had more volatility around the 20th, then the 24th and then the 29th.
Google updated its search quality raters guidelines with 11 new pages around spam. We also learned that Google can show sites with manual actions in the AI Overviews for now. Google said core updates don’t impact site names. Google clarified its site reputation abuse policies throughout and then began additional enforcement in Europe and in …
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