Helpful content update
August 2022 helpful content update
Rolled out 25 Aug – 9 Sep 2022, 15 days. Google’s page for it
What Google posted
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Google added these notes to its dashboard on 22 Mar 2023, after the update. The dates in the notes are the update’s own.
· 22 Mar 2023, 06:41 PDT
The rollout was complete as of September 9, 2022.
· 22 Mar 2023, 06:40 PDT
Released (developers.google.com) the August 2022 helpful content update (developers.google.com).
Next to other helpful content updates
The first helpful content update on Google’s status dashboard, which lists them from August 2022.
It took 15 days.
- After it: December 2022 helpful content update, 5 Dec 2022
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