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Another study shows that in 2020 26.5% of US citizens used Adblockers. This number grows by 1% each year starting from 2017. It means that your Google Analytics is losing around 27% of data about your website users.

John Mueller himself seems somewhat surprised by a statement on Twitter by a user claiming to have seen noticeable changes in his domain’s rankings on November 17. In fact, he does not expect to see any effects until a week or two after the roll-out, although he is not ruling it out altogether.

Please note that Google told us that this product reviews update will take approximately three weeks to roll out and we are only now in the start of week two. So, the data may change but generally when Google rolls out these updates, the bulk of the impact you would see from an update would be in the first few days of that rollout.

Data providers show December was bigger than April

Semrush did tell us that the November 2021 core update was bigger than the December product reviews update, but they are two different types of updates and that makes sense. In fact, The December product reviews update is not showing huge amounts of movement compared to the November core update, Semrush said

t’s possible to estimate how much traffic you’ll lose or gain from Google SGE. We propose an open SGE Impact Model, which anyone can implement using an Excel spreadsheet.

In a study of 23 websites, the aggregate organic traffic drop as a result of SGE was 18-64%. Our study focused on websites in the technology industry, with traffic mainly from informational keywords. There is large variance inside our sample, with some websites gaining as much as 219% in traffic while others are losing as much as 95%. See the results of the study.

t’s possible to optimize pages to appear in SGE snapshot carousels

Released on Sept. 12, it took two full weeks to roll out. And it came three days after the helpful content update finished rolling out on Sept. 9. Rollout complete. According to Google’s search ranking update page, “The rollout was complete as of September 26, 2022.” The page seems to have been updated about an hour ago. September 2022 Core Update impact. Based on data from tracking tools, the September 2022 core update hit fast, but was less impactful than previous updates. While there was some rank volatility, the consensus was that it was weaker than past Google core updates.

“Although the Helpful Content Update did not impact most sites, it could be the case with the Google Core Update that is currently rolling out. If you have other quality issues as well as unhelpful content, the combination may be enough to cause a loss of traffic.”

Both updates were fairly large and had big impacts for many many sites. Which one impacted which, despite what Google said, can be hard to pin point.

There are two types of knowledge panels: local panels and branded/personal panels. Google calls both of these knowledge panels, but the process of verifying them is totally different. For the local panels, verification was already possible through Google My Business.

For the branded and personal panels, it is much harder to obtain such a knowledge panel.

Google will decide whether or not to show a knowledge panel. Relevance, distance, and the prominence of the business are all important aspects for Google in determining if it’ll show knowledge panels.