{"id":1063,"date":"2017-02-08T14:09:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T14:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.searchenginewatch.com\/2017\/02\/08\/what-were-googles-biggest-search-algorithm-updates-of-2016\/"},"modified":"2019-07-24T08:50:40","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T08:50:40","slug":"what-were-googles-biggest-search-algorithm-updates-of-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/searchenginewatch.com\/2017\/02\/08\/what-were-googles-biggest-search-algorithm-updates-of-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"What were Google\u2019s biggest search algorithm updates of 2016?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, we\u2019re well into 2017 now and <a href=\"https:\/\/searchenginewatch.com\/2019\/04\/25\/whats-it-like-using-duckduckgo-in-2019\/\">Google<\/a> has already rolled out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seroundtable.com\/google-intrusive-interstitials-mobile-penalty-now-rolling-out-23237.html\">a significant algorithm update<\/a> this year. But of course every SEO worth her salt knows that last year\u2019s algo updates are significant indicators of the changes to come \u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/searchenginewatch.com\/2018\/05\/21\/no-need-for-google-12-alternative-search-engines-in-2018\/\"> search engines <\/a>are known for making slow and incremental adjustments to their filters.<\/p>\n<p>So while we\u2019re still piecing together lessons from <a href=\"https:\/\/searchenginewatch.com\/2017\/02\/02\/what-can-we-learn-from-winners-losers-search-2016\/\">wins and losses<\/a> in organic search last year, here\u2019s a visual and entertaining summary of <a href=\"https:\/\/searchenginewatch.com\/2019\/05\/31\/image-optimization-for-seo\/\">Google\u2019s<\/a> moves in 2016 that might well help us in <a href=\"https:\/\/searchenginewatch.com\/2017\/01\/12\/nine-crazy-predictions-for-seo-in-2017\/\">predicting<\/a> where SEO will take us in 2017.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Google&#8217;s Biggest Search Algorithm Updates Of 2016 &#8211; a visual representation by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e2msolutions.com\/\">E2M<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.e2msolutions.com\/blog\/google-search-algorithm-updates-2016\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.e2msolutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/google2016.gif\" alt=\"Google\" width=\"900px\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we\u2019re still piecing together lessons from last year&#8217;s wins and losses, here is a visual and entertaining summary of Google\u2019s moves in 2016 that might well help us in predicting where SEO will take us in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1092,"featured_media":1064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[983,984,37,342,836,22],"content_type":[27095],"class_list":["post-1063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry","category-seo","tag-algorithm-change","tag-e2m-solutions","tag-google","tag-google-algorithm-updates","tag-infographic","tag-seo","content_type-news"],"acf":{"tad_independentcommercial":false,"tad_content_format":false},"post_info":{"name":"idris.nagri@blenheimchalcot.com idris.nagri@blenheimchalcot.com","title":"","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/searchenginewatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/infographic-feature-120x90.png","category":"Industry","timeago":"9y"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/searchenginewatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/searchenginewatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/searchenginewatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/searchenginewatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1092"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/searchenginewatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/searchenginewatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/searchenginewatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/searchenginewatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/searchenginewatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/searchenginewatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1063"},{"taxonomy":"content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/searchenginewatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content_type?post=1063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}