News about outage

I've referenced this idea that Google didn't throw away the HCU on "It's New" (with @rustybrick, @gregfinn, @CrystalontheWeb www.wix.com/seo/learn/resource/its-new-daily-seo-news) a few times. Re-reading Google's blog post on the March update and they explicitly state: We're bringing what we learned from… pic.twitter.com/QT7pudWgMl

Since I keep getting messages about this, no, I'm sorry, I don't know how to solve the "missing thumbnail" issue affecting many sites since the March update. I wish I did.

Some people were apparently surprised that the SEO industry was not miraculously able to deduce, on its own, without official confirmation from Google for 7 days, that the core update ended on April 19 🤦🏽‍♀️ Uh yeah, maybe because enormous swings like this continued happening the… pic.twitter.com/hgo8ZKdKKK

Good morning Google Land! Yep, here we are again. :) The May 5th date has passed and we can only assume the "Site reputation abuse" update is underway -- or will be underway very soon. I am tracking directories, subdomains, and root domains of sites that are employing sponsored… pic.twitter.com/SjQ9REiVK2