Will you provide information about algorithm updates?

Ian M in the UK asks:

"Are you ever going to do "weather reports" like Yahoo! does for algorithm updates? Simply a confirmation that one has happened would please many SEOs, as clients might think they've been penalised. Your algo update reports years ago were wonderful."

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Science & Technology

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• google
• algorithm

[EGonlinemarketing]

I appreciate you doing these videos. It is appreciated. Keep up the good work Matt.

[koumoutzak]

I dont believe that google cannot make a weekly report with the very basic changes.

[jpanhwar]

Why should they give such updates for others to know what they are doing.

I belive best SEO is give good content for the readers and clients and wait and see.

[gtj100]

I see that as a massive manual team looking at individual sites, which is probably needed.

[Films4You]

A number of small changes could equal the same a one bigger update.

[MACDEE1823]

The quarterly report that a few guys have mentioned here would be useful! Several incremental changes can pile up to be a whopping great mammoth of an update!!

[DragonMasterMarf]

Even if you just set up a twitter account, and made a tweet for every change it would help.

[jackprince1983]

I agree, a monthly or quarterly weather report would be useful. Cause of bunch of small updates are worth a big one. So a basic overview of some changes are very welcome. Also its clear that google wants the content to define your place in SERPs and not your optimization skills.

[devji79]

Matt, how about providing a monthly/quarterly update of the general changes made? I don't mean list each change made but maybe the general areas affected. This would still help Webmasters a great deal and the Google only needs to provide a monthly/quarterly weather report. Also thanks for making these videos. I find them very useful.

[chempranav]

"monolithic big Google Dance updates"

he actually used that phrase- google-dance