We discuss the main factors that we check when we see that a site has been affected by an algorithm change (or seen a ranking drop). 

How to use Google Search Console to see which pages / queries were affected. 

How to identify changes to the search engine results pages and the underlying intent being displayed. 

How to look at the data, make a hypothesis, and test it.

We also included a few of our favorite algorithm tracking tools: 

https://algoroo.com/ https://www.semrush.com/sensor/?db=US&category= https://moz.com/mozcast/

A few twitter accounts worth following for algorithm related news and analysis: 

https://twitter.com/JohnMu https://twitter.com/sistrix https://twitter.com/searchliaison https://twitter.com/lilyraynyc

A great article by Google Search Central:

https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2019/08/core-updates

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