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Ranking & Algorithms Local SEO
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 551 stories.
Ranked by estimated impact on a single site, not by publication time.
Ranking & Algorithms Local SEO
Ranking & Algorithms
2025 was a big year for technology, and we’re all gearing up for the same rapid developments to emerge in 2026. But as tech has evolved, design has evolved alongside it – distilling large-scale…
Assembled from our own archive of 551 stories, which currently runs from 4 October 2023. 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.