Google Rolling Out The November 2021 Core Update Later Today

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By Chris Barnhart On Nov 17, 2021

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Right before the big Thanksgiving Black Friday and Cyber Monday holiday season Google decided to flip the switch and roll out a core update. Google just announced that it will begin rolling out later today the November 2021 Core Update.

Yes, I am surprised it is rolling out just a week or so before Thanksgiving and it will continue to likely take two weeks to roll out, which means it will roll out during Black Friday and Cyber Monday online shopping.

As I wrote this morning, I expected Google to wait until at least December to roll it out.

Later today, we are releasing a broad core update, as we do several times per year. It is called the November 2021 Core Update. Our guidance about such updates is here:https://t.co/0LAL28ueDq

— Google Search Central (@googlesearchc) November 17, 2021

I am also surprised the Google Search Central account announced it and not the Search Liaison account.

Just yesterday, Google said it does not know when the next core update will be released… Funny, right?

Again,I am shocked and so are others:

Oh boy. Here we go! I’m surprised with the timing… It’s right before Thanksgiving weekend, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, etc. Wow, get ready. This should be interesting. 🙂 https://t.co/J1SBQsKb0d

— Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) November 17, 2021

Google has said before it would not release updates before this holiday season. Google said in 2020 it won’t release a core update before the holidays, Matt Cutts said in 2013 they try to minimize updates before/during holidays and even Panda updates took a break for the holidays.

The previous core update we had was July 2021 and then a month prior to that with the June core update. The one before that was 6 months before the June update, on December 3, 2020 named the December 2020 core update. Before that was 7 month gap where on May 4, 2020, the May 2020 core update. The one prior to that was on January 13, 2020, the January 2020 core update and the one before that was on September 24, 2019, the September 2019 core update. Oh, before that was on June 3, 2019, the June 2019 core update and I can go on and on.

Are you surprised?

Forum discussion at Twitter.