SEO recap: week of 5 Jan 2026

A summary of what actually happened in search during this period, ranked by likely impact on a single site rather than by publication time. Built from our own archive of 1,441 stories.

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0 Update-flagged
0 Technical areas

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Assembled from our own archive of 1,441 stories, which currently runs from 19 October 2022. Ranking is by the impact score described on the front page — an estimate of how much a story is likely to affect one website, not a measure of how much attention it got.

The archive only holds what it has seen. Periods before it started are empty rather than quiet, and it gets more complete every week it runs.